bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Church - McCormick Seminary's Big Waste of M...":
LPC, The Ft. Wayne seminary is much more enthusiastic about Walther than the St. Louis seminary, the seminary Walther founded. I think the reason is the second career students used to go to Ft. Wayne more, and they liked Walther's practical advice for teaching. Pr. Harrison is a Ft. Wayne grad, and he translated Walther and other LCMS patriarchs for his book.
The original library that Ft. Wayne built was the Walther library, and now they just expanded it greatly along the lake's edge. They like building along the lake there for some reason. To me, that's just a maintenance nightmare and they'll have to keep the dehumidifiers running all the time. Libraries and water don't mix.
I was told that Ft. Wayne used to be as liberal as St. Louis, but the same year St. Louis got in trouble, in 1974, was when Preus was called to be president of Ft. Wayne, and he made it more conservative and scholarly. It used to be the "practical" seminary. Now Ft. Wayne is more scholarly than St. Louis, some say. So you can see that Ft. Wayne tries to corner the market on wherever St. Louis is perceived to be weak and failing.
Just a month or two ago I saw on Steadfast Lutherans one of the posters arguing we need to send more seminarians to Ft. Wayne to support theologians like Dr. Scaer. There surely are cheaper ways to support theologians than that! Pr. Harrison now has plenty of empty offices and cubicles at the Synod HQ where theologians could work, and there's several large theological libraries in St. Louis.
Dr. Jackson has pointed out that a lot of these professors only teach nine hours per week. With a workload so light, they almost qualify as lay theologians:
David P. Scaer Chair of Systematic and Biblical Theology:
http://www.ctsfw.edu/Page.aspx?pid=386
Ft. Wayne buildings right on water with long walkways:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150155497476666&set=a.10150155493316666.288814.21700141665&type=1&theater
Preus came to Ft. Wayne in 1974:
http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/chronologyofrpreusworkatcts.pdf
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Church - McCormick Seminary's Big Waste of M...":
Bruce,
May be the reason LC-MS sems can charge so much is because the student is guaranteed the proper interpretation of Walther's teachings.
I kid you not but I saw one time a blog openly say that Walther is the blogger's hero.
LPC
