Marcia Bunge received her BA in English and music from St. Olaf College and her MA in divinity and PhD in religion and literature from the University of Chicago. She taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, Luther College, and Luther Seminary before joining the CC faculty. Bunge edited a collection of J.G. Herder's writings entitled Against Pure Reason: Writings on History, Language, and Religion (1993), and a collection of essays entitled The Child in Christian Thought (2001). Bunge's most recently co-edited books are The Child in the Bible (2008) and Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Texts and Sources (2009). From 2003-07 she served on the National Task Force on Education for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Bunge directs “The Child in Religion and Ethics” project and serves on the international board of the Child Theology Movement and on the steering committees of the “Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation” of the American Academy of Religion and “Children in the Biblical World” section of the Society of Biblical Literature. She regularly lectures at leading universities and conferences in the United States and abroad.

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