He then taught at Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in various roles from 1977 to 1993, including serving as acting president from 1989 to 1990.
From there he joined Concordia Seminary as missions professor of Systematic Theology, a position he held until his retirement in 2009.
[4] Kolb has served as associate editor and coeditor of The Sixteenth Century Journal and as co-editor of Lutheran Mission Matters.
[5] Robert Kolb is internationally recognized as one of "the most respected scholars of the Reformation"[2] and "one of the best historians of Luther at work today".
In addition to his historical research on the Reformation, the Festschrift highlights several of Kolb's particular contributions to the study of theology, including the recovery of Luther's distinction of the Two Kinds of Righteousness, his emphasis on the Word of God's conversational and performative aspects, and the significance of the created world in all aspects of Christian theology.