Gregory P. Schulz is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon. He is a husband, father, grandfather and a Lutheran pastor with over 30 years in the ministry, both in the parish and in higher education. A graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin, he has earned doctorates in both theology (DMin from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana) and in philosophy (PhD from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin).
Dr. Schulz is active in academic, church and community service, including service on the Board of Advisors for DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel. He directs The Martin Galstad Institute for Lutheran Philosophy and hosts the website LutheranPhilosopher.com. An outspoken proponent of philosophy for seminary students and pastors, Pastor Schulz is Adjunct Professor of Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, where he teaches in the seminary’s Ph.D., Missiology Program.
Professor Schulz has lectured and presented academic papers at major universities stateside and in Canada, and also at Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K., in Hong Kong and in mainland China. He has published articles and reviews on various theological and philosophical topics in professional and academic journals such as Dialog, De Philosophiae , Lutheran Quarterly and LOGIA and is the author recently of Wednesday’s Child: From Heidegger to Affective Neuroscience, A Field Theory of Angst and a second, expanded edition of The Problem of Suffering (in hard copy from CPH and in hard copy as well as a Kindle edition at Amazon.com). He is the editor of the CD the Problem of Suffering: Companion and Resource featuring a substantial 6-week Bible study on suffering, with student questions and a leader’s annotated guide, as well as articles, sermons, an annotated bibliography and commentaries on suffering, grieving and lamenting.