Academics
THE REVEREND CALVIN LANE, PhD
clane@nashotah.edu
(262) 646-6500
Affiliate Professor of Church History
Father Lane loves introducing people to the history of Christianity in all its rich diversity and complexity. Concerned with the intersection of practice and belief, Father Lane’s teaching always returns to the way the church’s life, devotion, and thought are dynamically related. His goal is to provide students with a broad, colorful, yet substantial foundation so that they will carefully appreciate a past which continually informs the present.
While he delights in teaching the full range of church history from late antiquity to post-modernity, his research considers the middle ages and the reformation. Father Lane’s forthcoming book, The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church (Pickering & Chatto, 2013) examines the way English Christians of the seventeenth century told the story of the reformation and how their perception of the past shaped religious identity, church conformity, and what we now call Anglicanism. He has articles in Reformation and Renaissance Review and Anglican and Episcopal History as well as close to a dozen book reviews in various journals including Church History and the Sixteenth Century Journal. Father Lane has held fellowships to perform research in the US and the UK (including a grant from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church) and he is actively involved with the Sixteenth Century Society and the American Society of Church History.
While Father Lane holds the rank of Affiliate Professor at Nashotah House – regularly teaching during summer and winter terms and in the Distance Learning Program – he currently serves as Priest-in-Charge of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Franklin, Louisiana. He has taught for Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, the Diocese of Central Florida’s Institute for Christian Studies, and is helping to design a confirmation curriculum for the Diocese of Louisiana. Father Lane is happily married to Dr. Denise Kettering-Lane who holds a similar position to his own at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. Originally from North Carolina, he enjoys playing golf (poorly), lots of traveling, and meeting people from different parts of theworld.
