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| WELS leaders get Missouri degrees plus training at Trinity in Deerfield, Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Granger in Indiana. |
Stoked up on Ovaltine, the diverse ALPB Online clergy began discussing Seminex, ELCA, and seminary training.
Last night I stumbled on two ELCA seminaries claiming to be operating as a union with 11 and 17 different entities. Will United Lutheran Seminary call and raise by two?
WELS had at least two seminary professors trained at Fuller Seminary, Valleskey and Bivens, both boasting and both denying it was so. Likewise, Larry Olson earned the precious D.Min. at Fuller, denying it - though his dissertation (haha) was in the Martin Luther College library.
Libraries are full of fun and explosive material. I found a volume at Trinity Seminary, ELCA, in Columbus, where the ELCA seminarians, men and women, wrote about serving in LCMS congregations, preaching, consecrating, and baptizing. Telling a Purple Palace official caused a detonation of denials.
Just for fun, here is a list of "diverse variety" in the LCMS seminary faculties - courtesy - Engebretson - ALPB Online -
"I think it should be noted that many of our professors in the LCMS have studied at a wide variety of educational institutions outside of not only the LCMS, but of Lutheranism itself. Looking at teachers from both seminaries one will find advanced degrees from:
University of Durham, UK
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary
University of Michigan
Marquette University
University of Notre Dame
Yale Divinity School
Temple University
Harvard University
Calvin Theological Seminary
Washington University, St. Louis
University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Cambridge University in Cambridge, England
Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome, Italy
Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, Italy
University of Southern California
Drew University in Madison, N.J.
University of Birmingham, U.K.
Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Ill.
Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill.
University of Chicago in Chicago, Ill.
Capella University in Minneapolis, Minn.
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Union Seminary in Richmond, Va.
I think this demonstrates that our professors have been exposed to a diverse variety of backgrounds and an understanding of academics and theology well outside the boundaries of our church body. I'm sure this is reflected in the breadth and depth of their teaching."
That reminds me of the film student at a Christian university who said in class, "There are many roads to the same God." The instructor said, "Amen, Brother!"
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