Kathy J. Pulley
Kathy Pulley is Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her recent publications include “Civil Rights and the Religious Right: Christian Roots but One in Christ?” in Slavery’s Long Shadow: Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity (Eerdmans, 2019), and “Remembering Forward: Musings about a Life in the Church and the Academy” in Restoration Quarterly. Her main research foci are the socio-historical and theological dimensions of conservative Protestant institutions and women, and the intersections between Christianity and faith in modern and postmodern culture.
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“Church Doctor” Thomas H. Olbricht: Impressions and Sentiments of a Former Student
Volume 1 | June 6, 2022
Theme: In Memoriam
Discipline: American Religious History
When Professor Hans Rollmann delivered one of the six papers at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL) in 2003, recognizing the scholarship in the Churches of Christ from the previous fifty years, his focus was on “Tom Olbricht as Theologian.” Rollman closed his paper by suggesting that because of Olbricht’s extensive influence…