Maximilian J. Hölzl, Ph.D., M.Phil. University of Manchester; M.A., Columbia International University.
‘Non-Conformist Anticipations of Post-Christendom Mission: Exemplified in John Bunyan and John Wesley’ (NTC), 2025. This PhD thesis was written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Phillip R. Meadows and Rev. Dr. Joseph Wood.
Besides, Maximilian studied Classical Languages (Hebraicum, Graecum, Latinum), as well as Theology at the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Greifswald. He has presented conference papers, lectured, and preached in the USA, Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Lithuania, Turkey, and Nepal. He has extensive professional experience as youth and senior pastor, church planter, evangelist, PR-director, and acad. transl., and has lectured in the areas of Miss., Pract. Theol., FoRB, Ch. Hist., and NT Theol. In a distinct intercultural context, he served as a guest lecturer both at Nepal Baptist Bible College and at Kathmandu Institute of Theology.
He has published in English and German. Along with various journal and dictionary articles, and a book chapter, his first book was released under the title Gemeinde für andere (Baptismus-Studien 4, Kassel: Oncken, 2004
Memberships in academic societies: International John Bunyan Society (IJBS), Associate Fellow Manchester Wesley Research Center (MWRC), Arbeitskreis für Evangelikale Theologie (AfeT) AG PT, Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET).
His research interests encompass post-Christendom mission, the Constantinian–Theodosian shift, scriptural nonconformity vs. self-secularisation, English nonconformity, Bunyan and Wesley scholarship, evangelicalism, and the historical and global phenomenon of Christian persecution.
Select Publications:
‘Beaumont, Agnes', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 50 (Nordhausen: Bautz, ca. 2026/27), columns in preparation.
‘Stott, John Robert Walmsley', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 48 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2025), 1451-1461.
'Wesley, Susanna Annesley', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 48 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2025), 1568-1575.
'Westley, Bartholomew', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 48 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2025), 1576-1580.
'Westley, John', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 44 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2022), 1635-1678.
'Beasley-Murray, George Raymond', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 41 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2020), 115-128
Review of The Pilgrim's Progress von John Bunyan, by Claus Bernett (Berlin: Edition Graugans, 2015), Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture 21 (2017), 117-118.
'The Era of Constantine', in Hans Aage Gravaas, T. Engelsviken, M. Kamil, C. Sauer, and K. Jørgensen, eds, Freedom of Belief and Christian Mission, Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series 28 (Oxford: Regnum Books, 2015), 79-92.
'George Whitefield's Reception in Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Theology', in The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 2 (2015), 96-105.
'Religious Monopoly and the Loss of Religious Freedom in Christendom', in International Journal for Religious Freedom 7:1/2 (2014),157-173.
Review of John Bunyan: The People's Pilgrim, by Peter Morden (Farnham, Surrey, CWR, 2013), International Journal for Religious Freedom 7:1/2 (2014), 228-229.
'Peters, George W.', in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) 35 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2014, 1076-1097.
Review of Learning from Willow Creek? Church Services for Seekers in German Milieu Contexts, by Rainer Schacke (Göttingen: Cuvillier, 2009), European Journal of Theology, 21:1 (2012), 86-88.
Review of Freiheit entdecken: Impulse für missionales Christen und Gemeindearbeit, by Michael Frost and Reinhard Brunner (Münster: LIT, 2010), Jahrbuch für Evangelikale Theologie 25 (2011), 374-377.
Co-author and co-translator of 'Bad Urach Statement: Towards an evangelical theology of suffering, persecution and martyrdom for the global church in mission', in Christof Sauer and Richard Howell, eds, Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom: Theological Reflections (Religious Freedom Series 2), Johannesburg: AcadSA/Bonn: VKW 2010, 27-106.
Translation of 'Bad Urach Call' into German ('Bad Urach Aufruf'), 2010.
Review of Wie die Kirche wachsen kann und was sie davon abhält, by Peter Böhlemann (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006), Jahrbuch für Evangelikale Theologie 21(2007), 423-425.
Review of Gottesdienste für Kirchendistanzierte by Christian Schwarz (Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus, 2006), Jahrbuch für Evangelikale Theologie 21(2007), 434-435.
Gemeinde für andere: Die Anwendbarkeit der Willow Creek Gemeindeaufbauprinzipien für den Aufbau neuer freikirchlicher Gemeinden im deutschen Kontext (Baptismus-Studien 4), Kassel: Oncken, 2004.
Email: m.hoelzl@t-online.de