Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931-1932

Editors and Translators

609 Editors and Translators Victoria J. Barnett is staff director of church relations at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and one of the general editors of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, published by Fortress Press. She has written and lectured extensively on the history of the churches during the Holocaust, and is the author of For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (Greenwood Press, 1999), and the editor and translator of the new revised edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, by Eberhard Bethge (Fortress Press, 2000) and And the Witnesses Were Silent: The Confessing Church and the Jews, by Wolfgang Gerlach (University of Nebraska Press, 2000). She is also the author of the essay on Bonhoeffer on the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website. She is a graduate of Indiana University and Union Theological Seminary in New York. Isabel Best is a freelance translator who worked for international and church organizations for twelve years in Geneva, Switzerland. She studied English literature, German, and French at Oberlin College and holds the Diploma in Translation from the Institute of Linguists, London. She was part of translation teams for DBWE 8, 11, 12, and 13 and also translated Ferdinand Schlingensiepen’s recent biography, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945 (T&T Clark/Continuum, London, 2010). She is now editing a volume of Bonhoeffer’s sermons in English for Fortress Press. She and her husband, Tom Best, live in Belmont, Massachusetts. Mark S. Brocker (PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School) is lead pastor of St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Beaverton, Oregon. Previously he has served congregations in Decatur and Franklin Grove, Illinois; McMinnville, Oregon; and Tacoma, Washington. From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Southwestern Washington Synod Council of the Evangelical Lutheran 610 Editors and Translators Church in America. Currently he is on the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Board and serves as the chair of the Environmental Ministries Committee . He has taught courses on Bonhoeffer, theology, and ethics at the Northwest House of Theological Studies in Salem, Oregon, and at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. In October 2010 he delivered the Fifth Annual Knutson Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University on the theme “No Salvation apart from the Earth.” His dissertation is titled “The Community of God, Jesus Christ, and Responsibility: The Responsible Person and the Responsible Community in the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer .” He was one of the founding members of the editorial board of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition. Nicolas S. Humphrey is an assistant professor of German and humanities at St. Norbert College, where he teaches German and general studies courses. Nick studied classical Russian ballet at the Legat School in East Sussex, UK, and continued his dance training by earning a BS degree in ballet at the Indiana University (IU) School of Music. Afterward he joined the Hartford Ballet as an apprentice and subsequently performed as guest artist with the Indiana University Ballet Theatre and the Memphis Ballet. Nick returned to IU to earn a BA in German studies and won the year-long IU scholarship to attend the Freie Universität, Berlin. He earned his MA and PhD degrees in German literature at Johns Hopkins University with a dissertation on Heinrich Heine’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s use of dance as a rhetorical and symbolic device (Sinnbild). His current research project is a study tying his prior work on nineteenth-century German writers to Baruch Spinoza’s body-mind thesis. Michael B. Lukens is a professor of religious studies emeritus at St. Norbert College, where he taught the history of the Christian tradition and historical theology for nearly four decades before retiring in 2008. In addition to a doctorate from Brown University, he holds academic degrees from Johns Hopkins University; Union Theological Seminary, New York; and Princeton Theological Seminary. For many years, he maintained a research relationship with the Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany. His research interests, in addition to Bonhoeffer studies, include post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian dialogue and Catholic response in the Nazi period. He lives with his wife, Barbara, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Marion Hausner Pauck, a native of New York City, studied at Friends Seminary , Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary, New York. She served as managing editor for Christianity and Crisis for two years before 611 Editors and Translators joining the Religious...