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Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

1964

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Its Graduates Speak; The Seminary Listens, Ronald L. Johnstone Dec 1964

Its Graduates Speak; The Seminary Listens, Ronald L. Johnstone

Concordia Theological Monthly

How well does Concordia Seminary train its students for subsequent service in the church? This is the central question being asked continually by Concordia Seminary of itself; this is also the question of a study just completed by the Concordia Seminary Research Center. The following pages report in part the results of this study of training effectiveness.


The Fieldwork Program At Concordia Seminary, Kenneth H. Breimeier Dec 1964

The Fieldwork Program At Concordia Seminary, Kenneth H. Breimeier

Concordia Theological Monthly

In a sense, there has always been fieldwork at Concordia Seminary. Ever since the beginning of the school, students have been preaching, teaching, and generally exercising the skills of the pastoral ministry. In another sense, the beginning of the fieldwork program might be reckoned from the inauguration of the required year of vicarage, or internship. In the early 1930s Synod asked the class that would have returned for its senior year to stay out for one year to work in the parish.