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Greg Klotz

Associate Professor

Email: grklotz@tayloru.edu

Academic Credentials

BA,  Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Michigan
M.Div., Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
M.Th, Lutheran Northwestern Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota


Personal Information

Greg Klotz lived 20 years as a missionary in Latin America from 1980-2000 with the mission board of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. He served as church planter in Panama, then as coordinator of theological studies in Caracas, Venezuela, and Antigua, Guatemala. Greg and his wife Becky (who is Guatemalan) have three children. Upon his return from Latin America, Greg taught courses in ethnographic and qualitative research, world religions and living culture, mass media and Gospel communication: structures in visual semiotics, issues of theological contextualization in the mission field, Hispanic ministry, Youth Ministry, and contextualization in cross cultural theological education at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.  He is pursuing a PhD at Indiana University, in Folklore and Ethnomusicology.  Greg is currently in candidate status working on a phenomenological study of funeral music of Guatemalan Holy Week processions. Greg joined the Taylor faculty in 2007 teaching first and second-year Spanish classes.


Greg Klotz