Christopher Ocker is a historian and Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at th
Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
in the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He is also interim dean and professor of the history of Christianity at

San Francisco Theological Seminary The San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) is a seminary in San Anselmo, California with historic ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). SFTS became embedded in a new Graduate School of Theology of the University of Redlands in 2019. It was ...

; a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty of the

Graduate Theological Union The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is a consortium of eight private independent American theological schools and eleven centers and affiliates. Seven of the theological schools are located in Berkeley, California. The GTU was founded in 1962 ...

in Berkeley; series editor o
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
and a co-editor o
Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte.
Ocker is known for his work on the history of religion in Europe, Medieval and early modern intellectual and cultural history, and the social and political history of late medieval and early modern

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Selected publications

The Hybrid Reformation: A Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History of Contending Forces. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.Church-Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525–1547, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006.Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
"Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, eds. Derek Nelson, Paul Hinlicky, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. "Explaining Evil and Grace," in Oxford Handbook of the Reformation, ed. Ulinka Rublack, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. with Kevin Madigan, “After Beryl Smalley: Thirty Years of Medieval Exegesis, 1984-2013,” Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, 2(2015):87-130. "The German Reformation and Medieval Thought and Culture," History Compass 10(2012):13-46 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00816.x/abstract) "German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century,” in Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany, eds. Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006. "Armut und die menschliche Natur," Die neue Frömmigkeit: eine europäische Kultur am Ende des Mittelalters. Edited by Martial Staub and Marek Derwich, for the series Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenoeck und Ruprecht, 2004. "Contempt for Jews and Contempt for Friars in Late Medieval Germany," Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, eds. Steven McMichael and Susan E. Myers, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004. "Religious Reform and Social Cohesion," The Work of Heiko A. Oberman, eds. Thomas A. Brady and James Tracy, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.

External links

* https://www.acu.edu.au/research-and-enterprise/our-research-institutes/institute-for-religion-and-critical-inquiry/our-people/professor-christopher-ocker * https://medieval.berkeley.edu/people/faculty * https://www.gtu.edu/faculty/christopher-ocker * https://www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/gst/sfts/meet-the-department/christopher-ocker/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ocker, Christopher American medievalists Graduate Theological Union University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from California