Dr. Benjamin T. G. Mayes

Benjamin T. G. Mayes joined the Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), Fort Wayne, faculty in 2016. He serves as associate professor and chairman of Historical Theology. His current research interests include the historical precedents to the Book of Concord and the reception and use of the Book of Concord after 1580.

He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Historical Theology from Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2009. His dissertation was published as “Counsel and Conscience: Lutheran Casuistry and Moral Reasoning after the Reformation” (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011). He received his Master of Divinity from CTSFW in 2003. He graduated from Concordia University, Nebraska, in 1997 with a degree in music and pre-seminary studies and spent a year of exchange study at the Lutherische Theologische Hochschule in Oberursel, Germany.

He served as associate pastor at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Grand Rapids, from 2003 to 2006, before being called to Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as editor for professional and academic books. As a member of Emmaus Lutheran Church in urban St. Louis, he served in many pastoral, catechetical, and leadership roles for nearly ten years. Mayes continues to serve as co-general editor for the new volumes of Luther’s Works: American Edition. He has finished his edition of Johann Gerhard’s Theological Commonplaces (Concordia Publishing House) and has recently finished a book: Divorce and Remarriage: Ecclesiastical Discernment and Pastoral Care (forthcoming).

He is married to Rebecca and has two sons.