Rev. Dr. Jason Lane

Dr. Jason Lane is associate professor of Historical Theology and the director of research, assessment and academic programming at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He joined the faculty in 2024.

He previously served as assistant pastor at Luther Memorial Chapel and University Student Center in Shorewood, Wis. (2013-24), and pastor at Celebration Lutheran Church in St. Johns, Fla. (2010-13). Lane earned a Doctor of Theology (Th. D.) (2015) at Universität Hamburg in Germany and a Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) (2010) and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) in 2007 from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. In 2001, he received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, graduating from Framingham State College in Framingham, Mass.

Before coming to Concordia Seminary, Lane served as associate professor of theology (2019-24) and assistant professor of theology (2013-19) at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, where he taught various undergraduate courses in systematic, historical and practical theology, and German language courses.

His areas of interest include Martin Luther and the theology of the Lutheran Reformation, biblical exegesis in the age of the Reformation and Lutheran Orthodoxy, and the theology of the 19th century Confessional Revival, especially the works of Theodor Kliefoth.

He is the author of “Luther’s Epistle of Straw: The Voice of St. James in Reformation Preaching” (De Gruyter, 2018), has contributed to various journals, popular and scholarly, and provided English translations of numerous books from German since 2008.

Lane and his wife, Marta, have eight children and another child due in 2024.