Mark A. Lamport

Mark A. Lamport (born November 23, 1955) is an author, editor, and academic. For forty years, he has been a professor of practical theology at graduate schools in the United States and Europe. He is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Christian Education which was the award winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books, 2016, and the author of over 200 publications. He is coeditor of Encyclopedia of Christianity and the Global South, Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States and the Encyclopedia of Christian Education.

Teaching

He has been a professor at graduate schools in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, Belgium, England, Portugal, Wales and the Netherlands. He also has been a lecturer at academic institutions in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Selected works

Lamport, Mark A., Forrest, Benjamin K., and Whaley, Vernon, eds. (2019) Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions. Eugene, OR: Cascade. Edie, Fred P. and Lamport, Mark A. (2021) Nurturing Faith: a Practical Theology for Educating Christians. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. . Lamport, Mark A., ed. (2022) The Rowman & Littlefield handbook of philosophy and religion. Lanham, MD: Rowman & LIttlefield. Barreto, Raimundo and Lamport, Mark A. (2023) Engaging Coloniality: The Liberative Story of Christianity in Latin America. Eugene, OR:Cascade Books.