# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S557
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 557

f Denver, Colo., as research director (1951). Early in
card for Parish Education approved the Research Design
utlined six areas of investigation: (1) mate selection, (2) sex
les, (3) engagement and marriage, (4) family size (birth con-
5) family responsibility and authority, (6) divorce and re-
ave.
senty men assisted with special studies in such fields as Old
few. Testament exegesis, dogmatics, church history (ancient
ern), practical theology, modern scientific studies, Lutheran
onthe continent and in America, positions in other
sof Christendom. The research director made a sociological
representative families in every section of our Church
America. This study is now being interpreted. The fol-
men participated: Dr. Geo. Schick, Prof. Aug. Suelflow,
Reuss, Dr. W. Roehrs, Dr. A. von Rohr Sauer, Dr. Wm. Arndt,
Lueker, Prof. Norman Gienapp, Dr. L. Spitz, Prof. O. E.
f. Fred Kramer, Dr. A. C. Piepkorn, Dr. Carl Mundinger,
er Koepke, Rev. Herbert Mayer, Rev. Theo. Schabacker,
Gunther Jacobs, Rev. Harold Maleske, Mr. A. C. Zeddies,
oT. Mattson, Dr. G. M. Bruce, Dr. W. Baepler. The entire
was further examined and assignments clarified in a con-
of research assistants, March, 1952. Most of these studies
completed and summaries written. The final report will
God, not man, determines the answers to problems in
fe. It will be theological in its emphasis, keeping in mind
tical realities of family life today and how the grace of
«Christ meets human need. No official report has been
d it will take another triennium to complete the program,
icludes seven stages of development: (1) setting up of the
(2) assigning and making the studies, (3) evaluation and
on: of the studies (synthesis), (4) testing of preliminary
§(5) reformulation and final revision, (6) submitting of re-
Church, (7) using the report in the life and work of the
We are now at the end of stage 3. The director had
bsence from his congregation for 10 months in 1951—52
No months in 1953.

topean Theological Literature.— This project involves
a bibliography covering the German and Scandinavian
iterature of the past twenty-five to thirty years. It was
-under the leadership of Dr. Theodore Graebner. His
ath made it necessary for a faculty committee to assume
- direction of the project. The present faculty committee
Dr. J. Pelikan, Dr. A. C. Piepkorn, and Dr. M. Scharle-