James M. Kittelson

James M. Kittleson was professor of church history and Director of the Lutheran Brotherhood Foundation Reformation Research Program at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. He was author of several books, including Toward an Established Church: Strasbourg's Reformation from 1500 to the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century (2000), and he served as a senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (1996).

Hans H. Wiersma is associate professor of religion at Augsburg University, Minneapolis, Minnesota.