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Robert Kolb, professor of systematic theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis USA, since 1993 served as president of the fourteenth International Congress of Luther Research in 2022 after membership in the Congress continuation committee since 1993. He is with Timothy J. Wengert the co-editor of the English translation of The Book of Concord, the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000), and with Irene Dingel and L’ubomír Batka the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Among his books are Face to Face. Martin Luther’s View of Reality (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024), Martin Luther and the Enduring Word of God. The Wittenberg School and its Scripture-Centered Proclamation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016), Martin Luther, Confessor of the Faith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), as well as Between Wittenberg and Geneva. Lutheran and Reformed Theology in Conversation, co-authored with Carl R. Trueman, (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017), and The Genius of Luther’s Theology. A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church, co-authored with Charles P. Arand (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008).