Honors and Awards
An educator and scholar, Dr. Miller has been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for his contributions to Malone University and broader academia.
2019
- Herzog August Bibliothek Research Stipendium and Award
2018
- Malone University Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship
2017
- Malone University Summer Research Grant
2015
- Malone University Summer Research Grant
2011
- Malone University Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching
2009
- Malone University Summer Research Grant
2008
- Calvin Seminars in Christian Scholarship Participant
2006
- Malone College Summer Research Grant
2003
- Ohio Magazine Excellence in Education Award
- Malone College Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching
- Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education Award for Teaching Excellence
2002
- Malone College Summer Research Grant
1990-91
- International Research and Exchange, Princeton, NJ (IREX)
- Dissertation Research Grant for archival research in Leipzig, Germany
1988-90
- Boston University Division of Religious Studies Graduate Assistantships
- Boston University School of Theology Research Assistantships
- Boston University School of Theology Teaching Assistantships
1987-91
- Division of Religious Studies Scholarships, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Select Publications
Dr. Miller is an active scholar in Historical Theology and the History of Christianity, particularly concerning Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and the history of Christian-Islamic relations.
“Controversial Theology with Islam” in Joar Haga, Robert Kolb, et al., ed., A Companion to Lutheran Orthodoxy, Brill, forthcoming 2021.
“'That There Would Be One Flock Under One Shepherd' Theodor Bibliander and An Early Protestant Understanding of the Role of Language for Missionary Work” in Edward L. Smither and Robert Gallagher, eds., Sixteenth-Century Mission: Global Mission in an Age of Reformation, Lexham Press, 2021.
“The Road to Armageddon: Islam and Eschatology in Luther and the Lutheran Tradition to 1700” in Matthias Pohlig, ed., Christen, Juden and Muslimen. Heidelberg: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020, 236-252.
“Still Headed Toward Armageddon: A Response to Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations,” Christian Scholars Review 48:3 (Spring 2019).
“The Turks” in Martin Luther in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“Views of Islam in Early Modern Britain: Insight from the First Translation of the Qur’an in English” in The Islamic Quarterly, 61:4 (2017): 483-504.
The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany, Routledge Press, 2017.
“Luther and the Turks” in Martin Luther: Life Meaning, Heritage, De Gruyter/Utet, 2017.
“Lutheranism and Islam” in The Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Tradition, Robert Kolb ed., Concordia Press, 2017.
“Speaking in Tongues Before Pentecostalism: Understandings of the Gift of Tongues in Early Modern Protestantism and Catholicism” in A Light to the Nations: Explorations in Ecumenism, Missions, and Pentecostalism, Stan Burgess and Paul Lewis, eds., Pickwick, 2017.
“Martin Luther on Jews and Turks” chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology, Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Theodor Bibliander’s Machumetis saracenorum principis eiusque successorum vitae, doctrina ac ipse alcoran (1543) as the Sixteenth Century ‘Encyclopedia’ of Islam” in Islam and Christian-Islamic Relations (Apr 2013).
“Preface to Johann Brenz, Twenty-Two Sermons Delivered to the People During the Turkish Invasion of Germany” commentary and editing in Luther’s Works (American Edition) Vol. 60 (St. Louis: Concordia Press, 2011).
“Preface to the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Chapters of Ezekiel on Gog” commentary and editing in Luther’s Works (American Edition) Vol. 59 (St. Louis: Concordia Press, 2012).
“Bibliander, Theodor,” “Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem,” “Hermann of Wied,” “Islam, Reformation Understanding of,” “Jeremiah II,” “Megander, Casper,” “Mohacs, Battle of,” “Old Believers (Raskolniki),” “Ottoman Empire,” “Peillikan, Konrad,” “Propheseyings,” “Sacramentarianism,” “Ussher, James,” “Zanchi, Girolamo” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008).
“Wars of Religion and Religion in War: Luther and the 16th Century Islamic Advance into Europe” in Seminary Ridge Review 9:2 (Spring 2007), pp.38-59.
“Reformers” in Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 4 (Eerdmans/Brill, 2006).
“The Past in the Present Tense: Medieval and Early Modern Christian-Islamic Relations in Contemporary Scholarship” article in Religious Studies Review 31:3&4 (Dec 2005).
“Toward Armageddon? The Huntington Thesis Symposium” article in Fides et Historia 36:2 (Summer/Fall 2004), pp. 110-115.
“Luther on the Turks and Islam” in Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church (Lutheran Quarterly Books, 2003).
“Luthers Türkenschriften / Luther’s Writings on the Turks” (contributor) in LutherJahrbuch (2003).
“Luther on the Turks and Islam” in Luther Digest 11 (2003).
“From Crusades to Homeland Defense: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers on Islam” in Christian History (21:2, Spring 2002), pp. 31-34.
“Fighting Like a Christian: The Ottoman Advance and the Development of Luther’s Doctrine of Just War” in Charitas et Reformatio: Essays in Honor of Carter Lindberg (Concordia Press, 2002).
“Ulrich Zwingli: Reformation Theology and Christian Humanism” in The Reformation Theologians, Carter Lindberg, ed. (Blackwell Press, 2001).
“Luther on the Turks and Islam” in Lutheran Quarterly (Spring 2000).
“Luther and the Early Lutheran Tradition on Islam” in Luther Bulletin (Netherlands) 8 (1999).
“Voices from the Past: Historical Attempts to Shape a Christian World View” in Elements of a Christian World View, Michael Palmer, ed. (Logion Press, 1998).
“Vermischte Nachrichten,” translated selection from Acta Historico-Ecclesiastica Nostri Temporis (1778) in Lutheran Quarterly 10:4 (Winter 1996): 479-480.