# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S653
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 653

$12,000. Arrangements were made with Concordia College, Mil-
. waukee, Wis., to secure the services of Professor Ewald Plass for
F this work.

¥ This undertaking will require at least four years to complete.
%. The anthology, as proposed, will contain some 3,600 passages. The
* ‘volume is expected to include cross-references and necessary in-
troductions, explanations, and bibliographical notations.

3. A Restudy of Marriage, Divorce, and Family Life

This proposal came as a suggestion from the Board for Par-
4sh Education and the Committee on Family Life. It required the
allocation of $25,000. Since Synod itself had resolved on a pro-~
gram of this kind, the Committee’s action consisted primarily in
making the necessary funds available to the proper people.

This project is concerned with a study of all Bible passages
and Church essays in the field of marriage, divorce, and family
» life. It was intended to analyze modern views and practices, to
P examine recent studies in psychology, sociology, medicine, law,
and economics. It includes, moreover, a survey of the most effec-
tive ways and means by which adequate information may be given
to clergy and laity. This work is designed to undergird the Chris-
tian concept of marriage and the family by developing a construc-
tive program to avoid marriage failures and to build happy Chris-
tian homes.

4. Reprint of Babylonian Genesis

This particular project of reprinting the book Babylonian
Genesis by Dr. Alex Heidel, University of Chicago, came before
the Committee as part of a larger proposal. The Committee did
not feel that the larger project would meet any great need within
our Church, but that a reprint of the “Babylonian Genesis” would
be of help to interested people within the Church. The Committee
resolved to subsidize the printing of a revised edition at a cost of
$1,000.

5. European Theological Literature

In the fall of 1948 the faculty of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis
submitted a proposal that part of the Scholarly Research Funds
be devoted to the purchase of the best in German and Scandinavian
theological literature published during the last thirty years. This
project grew out of the experiences at Bad Boll. These confer-
ences in Europe revealed that the Seminary had not kept up with
the production of theological literature in Europe.

This is a two-year project, involving the purchase of some
2,000 volumes, to be housed in a special section of the Pritzlaff

granted for the execution of this project.

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