# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S109
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 109

RESOLUTIONS

COMMITTEE 1—Seminaries and Colleges

Qualifying for the Ministry by Colloquy
RESOLUTION 1, COMMITTEE 1

Memorial 152, page 202, Reports and Memorials

Resolved, To approve the following “academic requirements”
as a minimum program of training in the major fields of theology
for those who wish to qualify for the ministry by colloquy:

A. Exegetical Theology (five courses)

1. Hermeneutics

2. Old Testament Isagogics

3. New Testament Isagogics

4, 5. Two exegetical courses, one to be taken in residence

. Systematic Theology (four courses and two sets of assigned

readings)

1. Biblical Theology
2. Dogmatics I

3. Dogmatics II

one to be taken in residence

one to

4. The Confessions of the Lutheran Church
5. Readings in the History of Dogma
6. Readings in Comparative Symbolics

. Practical Theology (six courses)

1. Elementary Homiletics

2. Advanced Homiletics

be taken in residence

3. Pastoral Theology

4. Liturgics (to be taken in residence)
5. Principles of Teaching

6. Administration of Christian Education

. Historical Theology (two courses and one set of assigned

readings)

1. The Lutheran Reformation

2. The Lutheran Church in America

3. Readings Covering the Entire Span of Church History;

and be it further

Resolved, That the report of the Committee on Colloquies be
received with thanks.

Action: This resolution was adopted.