About the Author

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Cheryl M. Peterson (PhD, Marquette University) is the academic dean at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. An ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), she served parishes in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for 12 years. Peterson is the author of Who Is the Church? An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century and served on the recently completed first round of the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue.