Christine Helmer is the Peter B. Ritzma Chair of Humanities at Northwestern University, where she is also Professor of German and Religious Studies. Helmer is a theologian of Christianity, with a special focus on German intellectual history from the sixteenth century to today, including the theology and philosophy of Luther and Schleiermacher. 

She is the author of five books: The Trinity and Martin Luther (1999); Theology and the End of Doctrine (2014); How Luther Became the Reformer (2019); A Constructive Theology in Conversation with Christians in Tainan (2020); and (with Amy Carr), Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times: Justification and the Pursuit of Justice (2023). At present, Helmer is completing a book in constructive theology, Theology: Explorations of World, Self, and God, and is co-editing (with Jacqueline Mariña) a volume on Schleiermacher and democracy.