Denis Janz
Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity
E-mail: drjanz@loyno.edu, Phone: 865-3061
Denis Janz, Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity, received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1979. Since coming to Loyola in that year, he has served terms as Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. He is author of Luther and Late Medieval Thomism (1983), Luther on Thomas Aquinas (1989), and World Christianity and Marxism (1998), and editor of Three Reformation Catechisms (1982), and A Reformation Reader (1999). He currently serves as General Editor of Fortress Press's new seven-volume People's History of Christianity (forthcoming). He also edits the history of Christianity section of the journal Religious Studies Review. His research and lecturing have taken him to Germany, Austria, France, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Albania, the former U.S.S.R., China, and so forth.