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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 324

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324 HIGHER EDUCATION

(6-48)

To Create Theological Examining Boards
for Ministerial Candidates

Wuereas, The church must be completely assured
of the theological soundness of all theological candidates
desiring to enter the ministry of The Lutheran Church
— Missouri Synod; and

Wuereas, We are living in a day of great theological
ferment and confusion which endanger the church;
therefore be it

Resolved, That we ask the Synod to study and insti-
tute the use of theological examining boards who will
pass on the theological soundness of all seminary gradu-
ates before they are received into the ministry of The
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod.

NAZARETH LUTHERAN CHURCH
Buffalo, N. Y.
Donatp J. SAMpson, Secretary

(6-49)

To Amend Colloquy Requirements
for Seminary Students

Whereas, An increasing number of men who hold
membership in The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
have chosen to matriculate for the ordained ministry at
seminaries of other Lutheran bodies; and

WHEREAS, Many of these men desire to serve in the
ministry of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
upon graduation: and

Whereas, The present colloquy requirements tend to
create hardships in terms of finances and time; and

WHEREAS, Draft status, vicarage placement, and like
matters present a constant dilemma to them; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the colloquy requirements of one full
academic year of resident training in one of our Synod’s
seminaries (4.61a) be deleted for men studying for the
ordained ministry at all recognized and accredited Lu-
theran seminaries; and be it further

Resolved, That for a student who has fulfilled a sat-
isfactory vicarage assignment under the auspices of the
seminary he has attended, the colloquy requirement to
serve a vicarage (4.61 b) be deleted.

GEORGE W. BORNEMANN, Counselor
ENGLISH DISTRICT
CHICAGO WEST SUBURBAN CIRCUIT

(6-50)

To Correlate Training Programs for
Professional Ministries

Wuereas, The urgency of God's mission requires the
best-trained professional ministry possible: and

WHEREAS, There is a growing tendency toward parish
leadership that is made up of a team of professional
ministers; and

Wuereas, This type of leadership requires specialists
who have certain common experience and training; and

Wuereas, The common need of all segments of the
professional ministry for basic training in theology, ed-
ucation, administration, and certain general branches
of learning would seem to indicate that a more com-
pletely correlated program of training professional min-
isters of the Word would be educationally more de-
sirable and administratively more efficient; therefore
be it

Resolved, That the Synod instruct the Board for
Higher Education and the Board of Parish Education
to investigate the possibility and feasibility of develop~
ing a more completely correlated program for training
pastors, teachers. and other professional ministers of the

Word. TEACHER ALFRED B. KIRCHHOFF

Rev. Evpor C. KAIsEr
Springfield, Ill.

(6-51)

To Change Procedure for Electing President
of Educational Institution

Wuereas, The choosing or selecting of a synodical
school president is of vital interest to all members of
our beloved Synod; and

Wuereas, The president of a synodical school (insti-
tution) functions as an executive officer of the Board
of Control of the school (institution) and thus represents
the Synod in administering educational policy; and

Wuereas, Bylaw 6.113, “Faculty Committee in Elec-
tion of President’ (see synodical Handbook, p. 132, in
conjunction with Bylaw 6.111 and Bylaw 6.117), in effect
gives a committee of the faculty authority to limit the
electors to calling or choosing or electing a candidate
from the list of nominees selected by the faculty com-
mittee from the total list of nominees; and

WuereEAS, The above-mentioned authority to screen
out nominees amounts to a veto power by the faculty
of a synodical school (institution) through its commit-
tee and so makes it possible for a faculty to in effect
block the execution of the will of the synod acting
through its electors; and

Wuereas, The accepted practice in American institu-
tions of higher learning calls for the faculty to be given
an opportunity to express its judgment in the selection
of a president but reserves the power of decision in
completely unabridged form for those charged with the
power — the governance of the institution, that is, re-
gents or board of control, etc.; therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 6.113, “Faculty Committee in
Election of a President,” in the synodical Handbook be
deleted: and be it further

Resolved, That a new Bylaw, 6.118, be added: “Elec-
tion of a President to a Synodical School (Institution)
in the Event a President Is to Be Called to an Institu-
tion”:

a. A faculty committee elected by the faculty will