Donald Eric Capps

Donald Eric Capps
Born January 30, 1939 (1939-01-30) (age 73)
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Occupation Professor-emeritus of Pastoral Theology
Language English
Nationality American
Citizenship American
Spouse(s) Karen Virginia Docken
Children John Michael Capps

Donald Eric Capps (born January 30, 1939) is an American theologian and former William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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Biography

Donald Eric Capps was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After studying at Lewis & Clark College (B.A. 1960) and Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1963, S.T.M. 1965) and University of Chicago (M.A. 1966), he earned his Ph.D. also at the University of Chicago in 1970. His dissertation explored a psycho-historical analysis of the personality of the English theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman, and particularly his vocational struggles.

Capps' academic career started as Instructor at the Department of Religious Studies at the Oregon State University during the Spring/Summer of 1969. He then became Instructor and Assistant Professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago between 1969 and 1974. Later, he was appointed Associate Professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina where he lectured between 1974 and 1976. Between 1976 and 1981 he was Associate Professor and then Professor at the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University.

In 1981 he joined the faculty of Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was appointed the William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology. In May 2009 he retired with the status of Professor emeritus[1] but remains lecturing as adjunct.[2] In 1989 Uppsala University, Sweden awarded him a degree of Doctor honoris causa in Theology for his contributions to the field of Psychology of Religion.[3]

Other honors include the William F. Bier Award for contribution to Psychology of Religion, granted in 1995 by the Division 36 of the American Psychological Association; the Helen Flanders Dunbar Centennial Award, granted in 2002 by the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York; and the Joseph A. Sittler Award for Theological Leadership, granted in 2003 by Trinity Lutheran Seminary.

He was the book review editor for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion between 1980 and 1983 and editor for the same journal between 1983 and 1988. Furthermore, between 1990 and 1992 he was the president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

He is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 1972.

Selected bibliography

Capps is a very prolific author, who wrote, co-authored, edited and co-edited dozens of books and journal issues and published more than one hundred chapters, articles, and reviews in books and journals. Below is a complete list of books, edited books and journal issues, a selection of book chapters and journal articles, and a selection of secondary resources.[4]

Books

Edited books and journal issues

Selected book chapters and journal articles

Secondary resources

References

  1. ^ "Professors Emeriti". Princeton Theological Seminary. http://www3.ptsem.edu/intContent.aspx?id=1486&menu_id=72. Retrieved 14 June 2010. 
  2. ^ "Adjunct Faculty". Princeton Theological Seminary. http://www3.ptsem.edu/intContent.aspx?id=1487&menu_id=72. Retrieved 14 June 2010. 
  3. ^ "Teologie hedersdoktorer" (in Swedish). Uppsala Universitet. http://katalog.uu.se/orgInfo/?languageId=1&orgId=X13:2. Retrieved 28 September 2011. 
  4. ^ Dykstra, Robert; Cole Jr., Robert, eds (2009). "Books and Articles by Donald Capps". Pastoral Psychology (New York: Springer) 58 (5, 6): 681–693. ISSN 00312789. http://www.springerlink.com/content/f19062l367706269/. Retrieved 19 August 2010.  Compiled by Robert C. Dykstra and Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. with updates