| June 05 2009
Langknecht Named Haman-Pfahler Professor of Christian Communications
The Rev. Dr. Henry J. Langknecht was installed as the Haman-Pfahler Professor of Christian Communications during a service of installation on October 15, 2008, in the Gloria Dei Worship Center at Trinity.
Dr. Langknecht joined the Trinity faculty in 1999 as assistant professor of Homiletics and Christian Communications. He was named associate professor of Homiletics and Christian Communications in 2008, and has served as Worship Life Coordinator since 2003.
A graduate of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, he received his Master of Divinity from Trinity in 1986. He served First English Lutheran Church in Marysville, Ohio, before entering the doctoral program in Homiletics at Emmanuel College of the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto. While a graduate student he served as interim pastor at St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, North York, Ontario. He received his doctorate in theology in 2008 following the completion of his dissertation, “Giving Scripture Its Voice: The Tensive Impertinence of the Literal Sense of the Pericope, Metaphorical Meaning-Making, and Preaching the Word of God.”
Dr. Langknecht is a member of the Biblical Hermeneutics Work Group of the Academy of Homiletics, and has led numerous workshops and presentations on preaching. He is a contributor to Sundays and Seasons (2008) and New Interpreter's Bible Handbook of Preaching (2008), and is co-author of New Proclamation, Series A; Easter—Reign of Christ (2008).
The Haman-Pfahler Chair in Christian Communications was established by Robert and Carolyn Haman of New Carlisle, Ohio. They are members of Lutheran Church of Our Savior, Dayton. Robert Haman is the founder of Concrete Sealants Inc., a successful manufacturing company. Carolyn Pfahler Haman, a native of Pennsylvania, comes from a distinguished family of Lutheran pastors, including the Rev. M.F. Pfahler (1815-1890) and the Rev. John W. Pfahler.
Following his installation, Professor Langknecht will offer a presentation entitled, “When the Bible Becomes Living Scripture.”