Herman J. Selderhuis is director of Refo500. Herman received his training at the Theological University in Apeldoorn (Netherlands) where he teaches since 1997 as Professor of Church History and Church Polity, after he served as pastor in two congregations for 10 years. He earned his doctorate with a dissertation on “Marriage and Divorce in the Thought of Martin Bucer.” He is (co)-author of various books and President of the International Calvin Congress and Research Curator of the John A Lasco Library (Emden, Germany).

2017 will mark the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Castle Church, the event that would eventually lead to what we now know as the Protestant Reformation. In anticipation of this very significant anniversary, churches, seminaries, colleges, and many other organizations have begun the process of examining the events leading up to and flowing out from the reformations of that time, and a great deal of those organizations have joined together to form Refo500, which describes itself as “the international platform for knowledge, expertise, ideas, products and events, specializing in the 500 year legacy of the Reformation.”