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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 360

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360 HIGHER EDUCATION

academically trained potential faculty members for synodical
educational institutions: and

WHEREAS, It is highly desirable that individuals who are to
serve on the faculties of the seminaries and colleges of the Synod
have at least a part of their graduate training under the direction
of the Synod; therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod in convention assembled direct
the faculty of Concordia Seminary to develop a training pro-
gram in the School for Graduate Studies of Concordia Seminary
for potential faculty members: and be it further

Resolved, That the Buard for Higher Education be directed
to determine the number of scholarships and fellowships needed
in such a program and to fund such a program, making every
effort to support such a program from outside-of-budget sources.

Board of Control

Concordia Seminary

St. Louis, Mo.

Ralph Bohlmann, Acting President

6-144

To Designate Graduate School,
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, as
Chief Center for Advanced Work

in Theology

WHEREAS, We live in an age that expects its professional
personnel to develop an ever-increasing competence in their
respective fields of study and activity; and

WHEREAS, This very expectation confronts our church body
with both the challenge and the opportunity to train resource
persons of special competence in theology as a formal discipline,
particularly in view of the fact that the Synod has been able to
begin the process of recapturing the heritage that made The
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod distinctive in terms of the
seriousness with which it took the Biblical revelation and the
confessional witness thereto: and

WHEREAS, The need for such specially trained persons has
become particularly acute for the years ahead as a time for
deepening the understanding on the part of our clergy, our
parochial school teachers, and our laity of the kind of solid
theology which our church body has consistently stood for and
within recent years has been willing to reassert even at the cost
of much turmoil and deep anguish; and

WHEREAS, Our Synod has its own institutions to train men for
the preaching and teaching ministry and therefore has a very
special need for men who have put themselves through the hard
discipline of earning S. T. M. and Th. D. degrees with a view to
teaching theology both faithfully and competently at these
institutions; and

WHEREAS, Our church body has as one of its distinguishing
features that pastors and teachers are required to attend cer-
tain conferences twice a year; and

WHEREAS. Such required attendance creates a high de-
mand for adequately trained personnel especially in the field
of theology; and

WHEREAS, Concordia Seminary, St.Louis, has behind it
more than a quarter century of experience in the requirements
and methodology of graduate work in theology, including the
training of teachers toward an M.A.R. degree, which repre-
sents such training in depth: therefore be it

Resolved. That we petition The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod, in convention assembled, that it designate the School
for Graduate Studies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, as the
chief training center for such advanced and specialized work
in the discipline of theology; and be it further

Resolved. That we petition the Synod to continue to make
available to Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, the resources in
terms of both finances and personnel to make possible a gradu-
ate program of a quality equal to and even superior to that of
the best in the field; and be finally

Resolved. That we petition the Synod for the financial and

personnel resources to develop and mesh this program of
graduate studies with the needs for trained teachers of theology
in the schools, colleges, and seminaries of the church and with
the needs for continuing education.

Faculty
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis, Mo.

Ralph Bohlmann, Acting President

6-145

To Place Deaconess Training Program
in Synodical Educational Structure

WHEREAS, The calling of a deaconess is considered a full-
time church career similar to that of a teacher, DCE. or lay
worker: and

WHEREAS. The educational program of all other students
preparing for full-time church careers comes under the direct
supervision of the Board for Higher Education of the Synod: and

WHEREAS, Our Synod, under the present system, has no
supervision of the deaconess training program or its curriculum:
and

WHEREAS, This could be best achieved if the deaconess
school were added to one of our 4-year synodical schools
(preferably centrally located): and

WHEREAS, The graduating deaconess should also be certi-
fied by the Synod just as all others who are called to serve the
Synod’s congregations; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod, assembled in convention at Ana-
heim, establish a deaconess training program under the super-
vision of the Board for Higher Education of the Synod; and be it
further

Resolved, That the deaconess program be included in one of
our synodical schools.
Memorial Lutheran Church
Bremerton, Wash.
Donald C. Schultz, President
Gerald A. David, Secretary

6-146

To Introduce Courses on Malnutrition,
Hunger, etc.

WHEREAS, There is widespread need for Christians to under-
stand the causes, effects, and possible solutions to world hunger
and malnutrition in the context and the climate of Christ-cen-
tered instruction and study: and

WHEREAS, The inclusion of courses, seminars, assistantships,
fellowships, and research activities that deal in depth with
hunger and malnutrition in the curricula of the Synod’s terminal
schools would enable our future pastors and teachers to con-
duct a more effective ministry and to instruct others in Christ-
centered activities to combat the problem; and

WHEREAS, The Commission on World Hunger has developed
a suggested course syllabus designed to accomplish this teaching
objective; therefore be it

Resolved. That the Board for Higher Education in coopera-
tion with the other appropriate agency or agencies of the Synod
be and hereby is directed to increase the development and the
inclusion of such course material and scholarly activities in all
of the Synod’s terminal schools.

Commission on World Hunger
Dr. Martin C. Poch, Chairman

6-147

To Promote Continuing Education
(New Orleans Res. 6-03)

The undersigned board recommends the adoption of pro-