Bethany Lutheran Seminary - Two Full-time Faculty - Father and Son Schmelings

        The two full-timer faculty at Bethany are Gaylin Schmeling and his son Timothy.

I noticed that Michael Smith accepted the call to the Asian Mini-Seminary. The most recent move there was Matt Doebler, to make room for Ski getting an insta-call to Patterson's district.

Smith is the son of Kincaid Smith, DMin in Church Growth from Concordia, Ft. Wayne, during Robert Preus' UOJ years there.

Michael Smith has an PhD from Trinity in Indiana, a Babtist, unaccredited online school. "We are not affiliated (accredited) with any regional or national accrediting agency..."

Here is the Trinity catalog PDF.

Tuition is very low at Trinity.

 In WELS/ELS, it is not who you are,
but who you say you are.

Wiki on Trinity, which seems to be mostly online, with plenty of faculty holding sub-par degrees from Trinity and Grace. I give Trinity credit for keeping tuition way down.

After all these years, WELS/ELS has forgotten that college graduates teach high school. People with graduate degrees teach college. Scholars teach PhD students, and DMins are not doctoral degrees. Fakey fakey Church Growth hucksters get DMins because they are too dumb to get real PhDs. But the DMins wear doctoral robes and insist on being called "Dr. Olson" and "Dr. Kelm" and "Dr. Parlow" and "Dr. Krause."

I propose that DMins be addressed as Dimms. "I have a question, Dimm Olson." Or, "We are honored to have as our guest plagiarizer today, Dimm Parlow. He has preached sermons from all over the Internet."

The Little Sect on the Prairie hit rock bottom when they hired John Moldstad to be the New Testament professor, without him bothering to finish college. That mean his suffering students were more qualified to teach, since a college degree was required, than their seminary professor - soon to be Pope John the Malefactor.

 In other news, Jay Webber's ELCA online seminary
is accredited. (Ukraine cat)

Will Timothy Schmeling, PhD, Concordia St. Louis, Help the ELS with Calov and Quenstedt on Justification by Faith?

Timothy Schmeling, portrait courtesy J. C. Penney

Some of his publications:

“Abraham Calov (1612–86): The Prussian on the Cathedra Lutheri.” In Lives and Writings of the Great Fathers of the Lutheran Church, edited by Timothy Schmeling. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2016.

 “Johann Andreas Quenstedt (1617–88): The Consensus Builder.” In Lives and Writings of the Great Fathers of the Lutheran Church, edited by Timothy Schmeling. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2016.

Timothy Schmeling will be installed at Bethany Lutheran College and has already published on Calov and Quenstedt. Bethany has a tradition of the least qualified teaching at the seminary, the better qualified at the college.

If Timothy agrees with Calov and Quenstedt, then he disagrees with Pope John the Malefactor and David Jay Iago Webber. One cannot have Justification without Faith and Justification by Faith in the same stall. That would be unionism. The great and wise in the WELS only  teach Justification without Faith, as do the ever-increasing tribe of Preus. As soon as a Preus is in seminary, he starts railing against Luther's doctrine, the Chief Article.

Let's do a little graphical research and see about where the old boys stand.

 Calov is quoted and cited by Dr. Robert Preus, who graduated
from Bethany Lutheran Seminary before most of the guys (like Moldstand) bothered to do so.
Unfortunately, some of the ELS guys (like Gaylin Schmeling)
attended Northwestern College (RIP), where criminal hazing was
administered with a hanger.

 Quenstedt lays out the real issues,
so I find it impossible to believe that young Schmeling has missed
this on Ichabod. Everyone in the ELS reads and dreads this blog -
so I have heard.

WHERE DOES THIS EASTER ABSOLUTION SILLINESS COME FROM?

Oh - now I get it. Halle University promoted the Easter absolution of the entire world.
And Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, caught it from Halle.
And CFW Walther caught it from Stephan,
which made the mob, the threats,
the robbery, and kidnapping of the bishop easier to execute.
And the Synodical Conference caught UOJ
rom Walther and F. Pieper.
And Muhlenberg learned his Pietism at Halle.
And so did Hoenecke.
And that, history fans, is why WELS-ELS-LCMS leaders work
so well with ELCA leaders. They all came from Halle, more or less,
and they all study at Fuller, if you waterboard them a few hours.