# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S556
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556 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

N.T. und der uebrigen urchristlichen Literatur. Dr. W.
of the faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo
director of the venture. Dr. F. W. Gingrich works wi
lexicographer. The work includes making such alter
augmentations to Bauer’s work as the available mate
possible. 7

On account of the war, Dr. Bauer had been cut off fro
of information in the United States, England, and other®
and some important publications had not been accessiblé
Doctors Gingrich and Arndt spent the first year assem
additional material. In the summer of 1950 Dr. Gin
a trip to Europe, where he met Dr. Bauer and other:
obtained much valuable information for the work that:
The actual composition of this manuscript was starte
ber, 1950. As of January, 1953, about one half of the:
had been prepared. The editors believe that at some
the printer can begin his work on the project.

2. A Luther Anthology. — This project involves a care!
ing of the 103 volumes of the Erlangen edition of Luth
The purpose of the reading was to select those gems fr
which would give his point of view on significant prob
day. After these gems had been selected, it was necess
late them and to provide for each item an introductio
graphical reference.

Professor Ewald M. Plass reports that as of Feb
he had done over 3,000 of. the 4,800 selections into
carefully comparing the texts of the three editions wi
is working. He hopes to have translated all of the sé
Reformation Day of 1953. Then will come the task o
the materials and adding the contextual, critical, his
bibliographical notes. He anticipates that the manus¢
finished by 1955, although the untimely death of Presid
of Concordia College, Milwaukee, has made it necessa
to assume additional work and responsibility at the:
the faculty can be restaffed.

3. Restudy of Marriage, Divorce, and Family Life. =
authorized by Synod in 1947 was assigned to the Famil,
mittee of the Board for Parish Education. Early
showed that a research program was needed. An
$25,000 to carry forward the study was granted by th
and approved by the Board of Directors (1949). A's
(W. F. Wolbrecht, Erdmann Frenk, Paul Jacobs, and
set up the principles and procedures for the projec
from a field of sixty names suggested selected the Re

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