Norm Metzler
Emeritus Professor of Theology
Contact Information
Email: nmetzler@cu-portland.edu
Education
B.A., Concordia Senior College
M.Div., Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
S.T.M., Yale Divinity School
Th.D., University of Munich, Germany
Background
Prof. Metzler has been an ordained pastor since 1971, and has served as campus pastor at Kearney State College in Nebraska and the University of Oregon. He then served as parish pastor at Grace Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon. He was an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon prior to becoming a professor at Concordia in 1993, retiring from full-time teaching in 2012. Prof. Metzler is married to Mary (nee Meyer) and is the father of two sons, Jonathan and Brad.
Personal Philosophy
As a systematic theologian, Prof. Metzler views all of theology as interrelated, and as a discipline which embraces and informs all of the academic disciplines. He seeks to be inclusive in his approach to religion and Christian theology, and respectful of all faith traditions. It is his intention and goal as educator to motivate his students to learn about and appreciate the centrality of God in all of life, and the implications of theology for all fields of inquiry.