# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1071
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350 PARISH EDUCATION

cher. The other ten tests are
will be published as soon as the
on them.

The test on Biblical information is being developed by Prof
sor Martin J. Maehr, with the assistance of Dr. Theodore G. Steloe,
and Mr. Herbert Kaiser. This project has been Part of a docto,
dissertation by Professor Maehr. The tests will ral

ill be publi
soon as the experimental work has been finished. tished as

6. Curriculum for Lutheran Secondary Schools.
ulum for Lutheran Secondary Schools is a project
tion of Lutheran Secondary Schools. A sum of $10,0
for this undertaking. The project is being develop
ulum Commission consisting of the following perso
A. K. Grams, H. C. Gruber, P. W. Lange, C. S. M
mann, J. W. Klotz, A. L. Miller, E.
A. J. Freitag, M. Groeschel, M. C. Pie
group works under the general direc

consisting of Paul W. Lange, chairm
L. Miller,

The Curriculum Commission held its first meeting in August,
1950. The project involved setting up the machinery needed ty
develop a series of “resource units” that would provide a thoroughly
Christian curriculum in all high school subjects. The Co

mumittee
surveyed thoroughly the literature in the field of curriculum build-
ing and spent many months in es

tablishing the general objectives
of Lutheran secondary education and in formulating criteria for the
selection of specific objectives in the several subject areas. For
each subject field a chairman was appointed, who in turn selected
subject-matter specialists for each grade level or department in
his assigned area. These specialists in turn selected additional unit
writers from the several high school faculties so that, as of today,
approximately 50 persons from ten Lutheran high ‘schools and two
synodical schools are working on the curriculum project. This
project represents a pioneer attempt to implement more effectively
the objectives of Christian secondary education. It is a first attempt
to systematically organize the total instructional program at the

secondary level within the framework of a Lutheran philosophy
of education. ,

in the process of com

— The Cur;;

of the soa
(00 was allocated
ed by a Currie.
ms: E. F, Eggold,
eyer, H. F. Birk.
F. Sagehorn, N. S. Tjernagel,
per, and W. F. Steinberg, This
tion of an Editorial Committee
an, Carl S. Meyer, and Arthur

It is estimated that a number of resource units will be available
for use by September, 1953. The completion of the entire project
may require an additional two or three years.

New Projects Developed During the Past Triennium

1. Translation and Publication of the Pieper-Mueller Dogmatics

into Portuguese. — The Board of Directors had already granted

Dletj
experimental work has been dont

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i r this purpose. The trans-
the Peat aan Te tines of Brazil was under way
de by the er, to complete the work the sum of $3,500
ae card for Missions in North and South America
ad. he ommittee for these funds and pointed out that

*0 on book on Lutheran dogmatics available in Portu-
je asect will have value not only for our own Synod,
at pr protestant churches in the Portuguese-speating
bat, for Ot cludes Brazil, the near-by islands, and Portugal.
world, in the Mississippi.” —This volume, by Dr. Walter

a raion ots in great detail the story of the immigration of the
Forster, Pre ttled in St. Louis and Perry Co., Missouri. The
Saxons who rated was $4,000 for a subsidy to bring the price

sak within the reach of the average purchaser. This book
of

| he market.
° ne . hunon a Theological-linguistic, Geological, and Genetic

° The problem of evolution is a perennial one to the “hurl
Siady. we have Dr. Theodore Graebner’s book God and
althous d Theodore Handrich’s Everyday Science for the ris’
i This study by Dr. John W. Klotz will be a critical study a
ae tati from the point of view of a Lutheran Christian scien st
Oe artigularly at home in the biological area. The project w
wnt wih the following items: (1) the relation of Science and Serip-

. th, (2) the tools of science,
blem of absolute truth, ;
@) fo eee ‘a gift of God, (4) theories of eviutiom & we) ne

. i olution,

i bout the various problems of ev ion,
Seaton of the ave of the earth to the problem of evolutions (7) eve
fen i i i from embryology,

olution from classification,
Cl fom geographical distribution, (8) suggested mechanisms
for evolution, and (9) problems for the evolutionist at the first
As of February 1, 1953, Dr. Klotz informed us tha ie
draft of the manuscript had been completed. A careful rewor
will be necessary and a rechecking of the references. nO opes
to have the manuscript ready by January 1, 1954. The Pa ae Re
search Committee approved an expenditure of $1,500 for P
duction of this manuscript. a _
4, Writers’ Workshop for Curriculum Units in Religion. ~~ This
was a follow-up on the Workshop in Religious Bduraton s0
financed by an appropriation from the n T.O. rere funds. -
the first workshop the basis was aid for a com f
the religion program in the intermediate and upper grades of aoe
theran elementary schools. anne exPer ne units, we re ore
d taught in about thirty schools. tksl
Davolved venting an overall program for the production of sey
teaching units. This involved the listing of objectives, the lining