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| Euan K. Cameron
Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History
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The Christian "essence"
… must not be crudely or thoughtlessly equated
with any single historic
manifestation of Christianity.
It may not be identified
with any one era,
since neither that of the apostles nor any later period
is "essential" or timeless.
… Christians should exercise extreme care when declaring something to be a doctrine,
or a rule, or a practice
by which the Church stands or falls.
The Church is always fallen, and yet remains standing even in the midst of its imperfections.
Euan Cameron
Interpreting Christian History
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Professor Euan Cameron was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, and educated at St. Andrews and later at Eton College. He read for the B.A. in History at St. John’s College, Oxford, and graduated in the First Class in 1979. In that year, he was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, which he held until 1986. While at All Souls, he studied for the D.Phil., which he received in 1982 for a thesis on the history of the Waldensian heresy in the South-Western Alps in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1985, he was appointed to a lectureship in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was promoted from lecturer to Reader (1992) and then Professor (1997). At Newcastle, he served on the University Senate and as Head of the History Department. He relocated to New York City in July of 2002 to join the faculty of Union Theological Seminary as Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History in the fall semester of that year.
Prof. Cameron has been in regular contact with the New York Area Deans of Theological Schools and has attended meetings of the AAR/SBL and ATS/FTE on behalf of Union, as well as regularly attending meetings of the Religion Department of Columbia University, where he is also on the faculty. Though his deanship and teaching entail a demanding schedule, Euan Cameron still finds time for frequent speaking engagements and occasional church preaching to inform interested audiences about Reformation history and to discuss the ideas in his new book, Interpreting Christian History (2005). He has also recently published an edited volume, The Sixteenth Century, in the series The Short Oxford History of Europe (2006). Cameron's first book was "The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps 1480-1580" (Oxford University Press, 1984), a revised version of his doctoral thesis. In 1991 he published "The European Reformation," also with Oxford, which remains in print. He is also the author of "Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe" (2000). Prof Cameron has both edited and contributed to "Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History" (1999). He has contributed articles and papers for "The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church,” "The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought,” "Theologische Realenzyklopaedie,” and "Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart 4,” as well as scholarly journals. Last year, he contributed to a published panel discussion, “Forum: The Politics of Religion: The Peace of Augsburg 1555: a Roundtable Discussion between Thomas A. Brady, Euan Cameron and Henry Cohn,” in German History, vol. 24 (2006). His keynote address to the 2005 international conference on the Reformation in France and Italy was later published in Essays from the Colloquium on the Reformation in France and Italy held in Rome, October 2005. In addition, he published a chapter on the Counter Reformation in the Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (2006), reviewed two recent works on the Reformation for Church Times (London), and was involved in identifying and commissioning contributing authors for the New Cambridge History of the Bible.
Prof. Cameron participated in the 2006 centenary conference of the American Waldensian Society in New York, subsequent to which he was invited to join that Society’s Board of Trustees. He was recently interviewed on the theme of different interpretations of scripture across Christian history for a documentary film on the ten plagues of Egypt. A television miniseries on Martin Luther, for which he served as a consultant, continues to be aired at intervals on PBS. Cameron’s research interests include the intellectual response to popular superstitions from the Middle Ages to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe; Christianity, the historical perspective, and historicism; and the Roman Catholic tradition.
In addition to the courses listed, which he has taught within the past five years at Union, Prof. Cameron delivered a seminar course, Martin Luther and the Sixteenth-Century Universe, in the Fall 2006 series at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Mary C. Boys
Euan K. Cameron
David M. Carr
Chung Hyun Kyung
James H. Cone
Alan Cooper
Samuel Cruz
Gary Dorrien
Esther J. Hamori
Serene Jones
Brigitte Kahl
Paul F. Knitter
Barbara K. Lundblad
Daisy L. Machado
Tyler D. Mayfield
John Anthony McGuckin
Troy Messenger
Christopher L. Morse
Su Yon Pak
Hal Taussig
Mark C. Taylor
Ann Belford Ulanov
Janet R. Walton
John B. Weaver
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