Dr Sorensen has had a lifelong love for languages and Christian service. After graduating with a teaching degree, he taught at parochial schools in Miami and St Louis. During this period, he completed a master's degree in Spanish. He next pursued seminary studies. After graduating from seminary, he pastored numerous congregations in New York, Texas, and the Chicago area. He served as a parish pastor continuously from 1989 until 2022.

While serving a bilingual parish just a few miles from Concordia, Dr. Sorensen earned his doctorate in New Testament and Early Christianity. He has been a full-time professor at Concordia since 2006, teaching biblical Greek, Scripture and Spanish.

Degrees

  • PhD, New Testament and early Christianity - Loyola University; Chicago, IL
  • MDiv, Theology - Concordia Seminary; St. Louis, MO
  • MFA, Spanish Language and Culture - Instituto de Filología Hispánica; Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
  • BA, Elementary Education - Concordia University Texas; Austin, TX

Prior Professional Positions

  • Research Assistant, Loyola University, Chicago (1995-97)
  • Visiting Researcher, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (2018)

 Areas of Research

  • The Christian Scriptures, especially the New Testament
  • Greco-Roman World
  • Intertestamental Period and Early Christianity
  • Koine Greek and Modern Spanish

 

Publications:

  • Contributor, Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Hymns (Concordia Publishing House: St Louis, MO, 2022)

  • Reformation Heritage Bible Commentary: Luke (Concordia Publishing House: St Louis, MO, 2014)

  • Contributor, The Apocrypha: The Lutheran Edition with Notes (Concordia Publishing House: St Louis, MO, 2012)

  • "Paul's Vision of a Certain Macedonian" in Troas: How Might Luke's Original Audience Have Heard the Narration of Acts 16:9 Logia 21 (2012): 11-14.

  • Associate Editor, The Lutheran Study Bible (Concordia Publishing House: St Louis, MO, 2009)

  • Contributor, "Cantad al Se'or! (Concordia Publishing House: St Louis, MO, 1991)