Christopher Ocker is Assistant Provost and Professor of History at The Graduate School of Theology, University of Redlands, and member of the Core Doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.  He is the author of Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547 (2006) and Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West (2018).