Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Historical Theology
Director, Research, Assessment, and Academic Programming
Dr. 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.
Before joining the faculty at Concordia Seminary, Lane taught theology at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis. (2013–24), served as assisting pastor at Luther Memorial Chapel and University Student Center in Shorewood, Wis. (2013–24) and as pastor at Celebration Lutheran Church in St. Johns, Fla. (2010–13).
He earned his doctorate (Dr. Theol.) at the Universität Hamburg in Germany (2015), his S.T.M. and M.Div. from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. (2007; 2010), and his B.A. in Psychology from Framingham State College in Framingham, Mass. He was also an exchange student at the LCMS’s partner church’s seminary (SELK), Lutherische Theologische Hochschule in Oberursel, Germany (2005–06).
His areas of interest include Martin Luther and the theology of the Lutheran Reformation, biblical exegesis in the age of the Reformation and the age of Lutheran Orthodoxy, and the theology of the nineteenth-century Confessional Revival.
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. Since 2025, he serves as the General Editor of the translation project, “The Reformation Writings: The Dogmatic-Polemical Writings of Reformation History from 1517–1546” for Concordia Publishing House, a proposed 19-volume companion to “Luther’s Works: American Edition.”
He and his wife, Marta, have ten children, six girls and four boys.