# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S767
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 767

Financial Summary

The funds made available to the Committee for Scholarly
Research from the “Centennial Thankoffering’ amounted to
$213,864.82. In addition, the Fiscal Conference has made avail-
able to our committee sums in the regular budget since 1950.
The allocations to specific projects, together with the amount dis-
bursed and the amount unexpended, is indicated in the following
record, dated January 31, 1956.

Allocated Disbursed Unexpended
1. Committee Expenses - $ 2,494.27 $ 2,494.27 $

2. Reprint of Babylonian Genesis __.. 1,000.00 1,000.00 —

3. European Theological Literature _ 8,000.00 6,581.61 1,418.39
4, Greek-English Dictionary of the

New Testament _.....-.-_- 70,350.00 58,993.38 11,356.62

5. Workshop in Religious Education 3,443.19 3,443.19 —

6. A Luther Anthology - 17,000.00 16,089.95 910.05
7. Restudy of Marriage, Divorce, and

Family Life 0 31,000.00 25,158.86 5,841.14

8. Tests and Measurements __...____. 5,000.00 3,271.48 1,728.52
9. Curriculum for Lutheran Second-

ary Schools _.- «10,000.00 7,920.67 2,079.33

10: Cultural Institute ____. pecceeneneee 2,841.00 2,841.00 —

11. Portuguese Dogmatics __....... 3,500.00 3,500.00 —

12. Zion on the Mississippi... 4,000.00 4,000.00 —

18. Genes, Genesis and Evolution ____. 1,500.00 246.93 1,253.07
14. Commentary on the Prophet Na-

1 | rc _ 3,000.00 3,000.00 —

15. Walter-Rhau Musicology Studies 15,550.00 3,056.55 12,493.45

16. Criticism of Thomas Aquinas ____ 1,000.00 — 1,000.00
17. Concordance to the ‘Lutheran

Hymnal 8,000.00 —_ 8,000.00

18. AStudy on Church-State Relations 5,000.00 — 5,000.00

19. Vestments in the Lutheran Church 500.00 — 500.00
20. Symposium on Theology, Psychol-

ogy, and Psychiatry 7,000.00 7149 6,928.51
21. A Lutheran Philosophy of Educa-

tion is - 10,000.00 —- 10,000.00

Totals «$210,178.46 $141,669.38 $ 68,509.08

As of January 31, 1956, the Committee on Scholarly Research
had available to be allocated for specific projects the sum of
$34,356.69.

Recommendations
Our committee recommends —

1. That the work of our committee be continued and that the
scope of the work, as officially described in the synodical Hand-
book, be the basis for the work of the committee.