Kenneth W. Behnken:  After attending parochial school at Immanuel Lutheran School in Orange, California, The Rev. Dr. Kenneth W. Behnken’s formal training for the ministry included St. John’s Academy and College in Winfield, Kansas; Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in June 1964. His first call was to Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Lubbock, Texas, serving there until he was installed as associate pastor at Zion Lutheran Church in Anaheim, California, in 1966. In 1972 he was installed as pastor of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Columbia Heights, Minnesota until May 13, 1979. In 1978 Behnken coauthored materials for the Synodical Renewal Retreat and helped to train leaders for those synodical events. On June 1, 1979, he began to serve as administrative assistant to the president-missions in the Southern California District (now the Pacific Southwest District) of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. In May of 1997 Behnken received a D.Min. degree from Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne, in the area of cross-cultural ministry. In 1998 he wrote Planting Missions Across Cultures, a workshop helping congregations plant ministries with other culture groups. Behnken has also served as a consultant with districts and congregations desiring to work with culture-specific and cross-cultural ministries. In January of 1999 he accepted a call to the district to serve as executive director of urban and ethnic ministries.

Gerald F. Brommer: Graduating from Concordia Teacher’s College in Seward, Nebraska in 1948, Dr. Gerald F. Brommer turned from his dream of becoming a successful basketball coach to the world of art. With a master’s degree in geographic studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brommer returned to his native California to apply what he had learned in school, beginning a 26-year career of inspiring students to share his passion for geography and art. He taught in Lutheran elementary and high schools until 1978, when he launched his professional career as watercolor and acrylic painter, collagist, teacher, author and juror. Brommer has written over 30 books and completed 14 videos for high school and college classrooms, and now teaches more than 20 workshops a year in North America and abroad. His works are included in over 4,100 private, museum and corporate collections in 41 states and nine countries; many paintings are proudly displayed throughout the Concordia University Irvine campus. Awarded the Litt.D. in 1995 by CUI, Brommer has also received numerous art awards. He believes his work is an "interpretation of what God has put here on earth," as he tries to "share my vision of that with other people." Brommer has served as president of the Nat ional Watercolor Society and honorary president of the National Association of Painters in Acrylics.

Eugene W. Bunkowske: The Rev. Dr. Eugene W. Bunkowske serves as the Graduate Professor of Missions and Director of the Doctor of Missiology Program at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has also served as a vice president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod from 1989-1998. For the past seventeen years he has taught mission theology and cross-cultural ministry at CTS. For the previous twenty-two years Bunkowske served as a missionary in Africa, serving first in Nigeria. He served as an evangelistic missionary, school manager, mission chairman, built a hospital, worked with Yala coworkers in reducing the Yala language to writing, Yala literacy, and Yala Bible Translation. He assisted Lutheran Bible Translators in establishing their work in Liberia and Sierra Leone and was loaned by the LCMS to the United Bible Societies for the work of Bible Translation Consultancy in West Africa. During his final years in Africa, Dr. Bunkowske served as one of the four UBS world Translation Coordinators. His area of responsibility was the sixty plus countries in Africa which he served from Nairobi, Kenya. Bunkowske received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA and has lectured and conducted workshops and seminars in over half of the countries in Africa and in many other parts of the world, being awarded three honorary doctoral degrees. His Topics in Yala Grammar together with the ten books he edited in the "Mission and Communication Congress" series have contributed to both linguistics and missiology. 

Robert A. Dargatz: The Rev. Robert A. Dargatz is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Orange, California. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he attended Concordia Junior College in Ann Arbor, Michigan and then Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Dargatz received his seminary education at Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois, and later placed as a resident counselor and instructor of religion at Concordia College in Ann Arbor. In 1977, he was called as the sixth faculty member at Christ College Irvine where he served for twenty-one years, acting as Religion Division Chair from 1981 to 1995. He earned a Master of Sacred Theology Degree in 1985 from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana with a major in Biblical Studies and a minor in Systematic Theology. He has taken graduate classes at UCLA in near eastern languages and cultures and later doctoral courses at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Dargatz served on The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s Commission of Theology and Church Relations from 1995 to 1998. He has been a frequent panelist on "Religion on the Line" on KABC in Los Angeles and also on the television program "Christianity on Trial." Evangelism since its inception in 1986 until 1996. He now serves on the LCMS Board of Doctrinal Review.

G. Waldemar Degner: The Rev. Dr. G. Waldemar Degner earned his B.A. from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri and an M.A. in Classics from Washington University, St. Louis, and later a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago in 1982. Ordained as a pastor in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in 1951, Degner planted congregations in Tyndall, South Dakota (St. John Lutheran Church) and Breckenridge, Minnesota (Grace Lutheran Church). He then served Trinity Lutheran Church in Ithaca, New York, serving students attending Cornell University and Ithaca College. He taught classes at both Milwaukee Lutheran High School and Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and joined the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975 (Professor Emeritus and Chair, Department of Exegetical Theology). Degner also served as faculty at both China Lutheran Seminary in Hsinchu, Taiwan (Professor of Exegetical Theology), helping to found the Master of Divinity degree program; and University of Latvia (Visiting Professor) under an assignment from the LCMS Board of Mission Services. Degner was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study of classical civilization in Italy and Greece. He served on the LCMS Board for Parish Education; Commission on Theology and Church Relations; and Evangelism Education. Degner was also a frequent lecturer at pastoral conclaves. His published works include translations of Karl Georg The Theory and Practice of Hermeneutics. He was also instrumental in the translation and publication of Martin The Two Natures in for the Church in Taiwan. Degner was called to the Kingdom of Glory on December 7, 1998.

Alfonso O. Espinosa: The Rev. Alfonso O. Espinosa is the pastor of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church of Laguna Beach, California. A native of Delano, California in the Central Valley, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University, Irvine, California in 1987 and in 1991 he earned his Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was first called to serve as pastor of Saint John Lutheran Church and School, Covina, California where he served for five years from 1991-1996. He has served in Laguna Beach, California since August of 1996. Espinosa has served within the Pacific Southwest District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in a variety of capacities. From 1991-1994, he served as a member of the District Recruitment Committee. Other extra-congregational services while he was in Covina included serving as an advisory delegate for the 1992 LCMS Pittsburgh Convention; pastoral counselor for the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, zone 11; instructor for Provisional Endorsement for Lutheran Teaching through Concordia University Irvine; regular delegate for the 1995 Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Saint Louis Convention; and a police chaplain for the city of Covina. While in Laguna Beach, Espinosa has become involved in youth ministry as a member of the Opening Mass Event Committee for the 1998 National Youth Gathering of the LCMS; and as workshop presenter for both the junior high and high school Pacific Southwest District 1997 youth gatherings. He continues to serve as an adjunct professor of religion at Concordia University Irvine.

George W. Forell: The Rev. Dr. George W. Forell is Carver Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Religion at the University of Iowa. He was born in Breslau, Germany, and after studying philosophy and theology at the University of Vienna, he came to the United States in 1939 to continue his studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. After his ordination in 1941, he served parishes in New Jersey and in New York City, continuing at the same time his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. From the latter he received his Th.D. Forell has been a member of the Philosophy Department at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, and professor of systematic theology at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. He has been a guest professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany; the All-Africa Theological Seminary, Marangu, Tanganyika;Japan Lutheran College, Tokyo; Gurukul Theological Research Institute, Madras, India; Lutheran College in Hong Kong; Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia; China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan; Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California; and Concordia University Irvine. Forell has authored Faith Active in Love (1954), Ethics of Decision (1955), The Protestant Faith (1960), The Christian Year (1964-65), Understanding the Nicene Creed (1965), Christian Social Teachings (1966), The Augsburg Confession: A Contemporary Commentary (1968), (1973), The Proclamation of the Gospel in a Pluralistic World (1973), The Christian Lifestyle (1975), The Revolution at the Frontier (1976), History of Christian Ethics, Volume 1 (1979), The (1983), and Martin (1994). He is the editor of volume 32 of The American Edition of and a past president of the American Society for Reformation Research.

James C. Gamaliel: The Rev. Dr. James C. Gamaliel was born the oldest son of the Lutheran pastor James Dharma. He has done research at both the University of Tuebingen and the University of Erlangen. Ordained in 1951 in the India Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gamaliel served as pastor in India for twenty years; the next twenty years he served on the faculty of Concordia Seminary, Nagercoil. Since 1990 he has served as the Director of the Bethel Theological Institute, training laity for church planting and evangelism and directing the publication of mission tracts and books. Gamaliel served as host for Charles The Gospel of God to the Sikh: Dharma in Hindu Scriptures and in the Bible and authored a foreword for the 1991 book The Mission of the Church in the World by Roger Hedlund.

Won Yong Ji: The Rev. Dr. Won Yong Ji received his education in Korea, the United States, and Germany, and was called as one of the first LCMS missionaries to work in Korea after 1958, serving there for ten years as pastor, Lutheran Hour manager, writer and professor. Later he worked with the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva as Secretary for Asia and as a theological consultant and study secretary at Missionswerk in Neuendettelsau, Germany. Since 1978 Ji has been an associate professor and professor of systematic theology concurrently at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and Luther Seminary in Korea. He has served as a guest professor at Martin Luther Seminary in Papua New Guinea (1977); as Gast Dozent at Augustana College and Missionskolleg in Neuendettelsau, Germany (1990); and director of the World Mission Institute of Concordia Seminary. Since 1997, he has served as Professor Emeritus of Concordia Seminary. Ji has authored ten books, translated The Book of Concord and C.F.W. The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel into Korean, served as the general editor and the chief translator of the Korean edition of and contributed to the Theologische Realenzyklopädie. He has contributed articles to the Concordia Journal and other theological periodicals in America, Europe and Korea, served as editor of New Life and in Korea; and was the founding editor of Missio Apostolica. Ji has given numerous lectures at national and international conferences and theological institutions. Suk-Ryu-Jang from the Republic of Korea (1972); the Best Publication Award from the Association of Christian Publishers in Korea (1990); and the Vision Award from Lutheran Society for Missiology (1996).

Benjamin A. Johnson: The Rev. Dr. Benjamin A. Johnson earned his B.A. at Gustavus Adolphus College, his M.Div. at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary; and his Th.D. at Harvard University Divinity School, with the thesis, "The Empty Tomb Tradition in the Church in the New Testament: A Conversation with the Church in (1968); The Mark of the Christian Community; (1977); and Blueprint for Sainthood: A Study of the Series C Epistles for Lent. (1980). Johnson has been awarded fellowships from the Dan forth Foundation, the American Association of Theological Schools, and the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and has pursued post-doctorate studies at Tuebingen University and Oxford University. He continues to study, lecture and write on miracles, both as they are revealed in the Scriptures and experienced in the church today.

Robert Kolb: The Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb (M.Div., STEM. Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, 1967, 1968; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973), director of the Institute for Mission Studies and Missions Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary since 1993, was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1941. He served as director of the Center for Reformation Research in Saint Louis 1972-1977 and as instructor at Concordia College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1977-1993 (acting president, 1990-1991). A member of the Commission of Theology and Church Relations of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1984-1992, he chaired that commission from 1989 until 1992. His contributions to scholarship include serving as the president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (1981-1982) and the Society for Reformation Research (1994-1996) and since 1993 as a member of the Continuation Committee of the International Congress for The Sixteenth Century Journal and a co-editor of that journal from 1994 to 1997. Kolb is the author of (1996), The Christian Faith: A Lutheran Exposition (1993), Teaching God’s Children His Teaching: A Guide to the Study of (1992), Confessing the Faith: Reformers Define the Church: 1530-1580 (1991), For All the Saints: Changing Perceptions of Martyrdom and Sainthood in the Lutheran Reformation (1987), Speaking the Gospel Today: A Theology for Evangelism (second edition, 1995), Nikolaus von (1978), and (1977) as well as some fifty scholarly articles in periodicals and Festschriften.

Shang Ik Moon: The Rev. Dr. Shang Ik Moon is Executive Vice-President of Concordia University Irvine, Director of the D.Min and Colloquy Programs for Korean Pastors, and Director of the Ethnic Pastor Certification Program. A native of Seoul, Korea, he was separated from his family during the Korean conflict at age 14. Through the efforts of Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Chaplain Eduard Vajda and the Kansas District, Moon came to the United States to begin his studies at age 17, attending St. John’s College in Winfield, Kansas and graduating from Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He then graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 1963 and went on to earn an M.A. in Sociology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Sociology at St. Louis University. Beginning his ministry as the Assistant Pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church in Affton, Missouri, Moon has held faculty positions at Lutheran High School North, Fontbonne College, the University of Missouri, Concordia Senoir College and Indiana-Purdue University. He was called in 1971 to teach as one of the first five professors at Christ College Irvine. Moon has participated in lecture tours across the United States discussing Asian culture, religion, and society as well as conducting seminars on Christian marriage and the family.

Steven P. Mueller: The Rev. Dr. Steven P. Mueller is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University Irvine. He attended Christ College, Irvine (now Concordia University Irvine), receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude in 1986. He continued his studies at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, earning the Master of Divinity degree in 1990 and the Master of Sacred Theology in 1991. In 1997, he earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Durham (England) where he studied systematic theology. His dissertation examined the Christology of C. S. Journey Through God’s Word: An Introductory Course: The (1999); "C. S. Concordia Journal (April 1999); "Born Again, . . . and Again and Again." in Lutheran Witness (October 1998); and "Translated Theology: Christology in the Writings of C. S. Angus Menuge, C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands. (1997).

Allen H. Nauss: The Rev. Dr. Allen H. Nauss is Director of Internship for the Ethnic Pastor Certification Program on the campus of Concordia University Irvine. He also assists personal growth advisors at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis with questionnaire development and individualized computer reports. Born in 1923 in Fargo, North Dakota, he earned his M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis (1949), an M.Ed. from the University of Oregon (1950); and a Ph.D. in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Missouri (1960). Nauss served as instructor, assistant professor and professor at St. Paul’s College in Concordia, Missouri (1948-1960) where he was also registrar and dean of students. He was then called to Concordia Theological Seminary as registrar and director of student personnel services (1960), serving until 1978 when he became dean of students at Christ College Irvine until his retirement in 1988. He has published articles on ministerial personality and effectiveness in a number of research journals. Nauss was awarded the Aid Association for Lutherans’ John W.

J. A. O. Preus III: Prior to his acceptance of the position of President at Concordia University Irvine, the Rev. Dr. J.A.O. Preus III was Professor of Systematic Theology and Dean of Faculty for Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He was also the liaison to the Seminary’s Hispanic Institute of Theology. Preus attended the University of Missouri in Columbia for his undergraduate work, and earned the Master of Divinity, Master of Sacred Theology and Doctorate in Theology degrees from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He served as pastor for Lutheran congregations in California and Missouri before joining the Seminary faculty in 1986. While a resident of St. Louis, Preus was instrumental in integrating cross-cultural, institutional ministry and evangelism components into the Seminary’s curriculum, and in establishing a missions study program. He served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy (Reserves) and was on duty in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm.

Richard T. Rada M.D.: Dr. Richard T. Rada graduated from Concordia Junior College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1957 and from Concordia Senior College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana in 1959. After completing an M.D. degree and three years of psychiatric residency at the University of Chicago, he was Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Sandia Base Army Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a medical school faculty member at the University of California, Davis and then at the University of New Mexico where he subsequently became Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and also completed a Masters in Management degree from the University of New Mexico School of Business. In 1979, he was Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has over 70 scientific publications, is a past president of both the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and was for ten years editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. In 1981, Dr. Rada became the medical director and then president of the Board of College Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in Cerritos, CA. In 1987, he became the first president and CEO of College Health Enterprises, a privately owned health care company, retiring from that position in 1992. He is a recipient of the Humanitarian Award of the California Woman’s Commission on Alcoholism and has recently earned a master’s degree in Reformation Theology from Concordia University Irvine.

A. R. Victor Raj: The Rev. Dr. A. R. Victor Raj was raised in India in a Lutheran household of four generations. He was ordained into the holy ministry in 1975 and served various parishes of the India Evangelical Lutheran Church, a partner church in India of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. He received his advanced degrees in theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis in 1976 and 1981 where he serves as Mission Professor of New Testament Studies and Assistant Director of the Institute for Mission Studies since 1995. From 1990 to 1995 he was professor and chairman of the Division of Theology at Concordia University Wisconsin. Before moving to the United States he also served a term as President of Concordia Theological Seminary, Nagercoil, India. His doctoral dissertation was entitled The Cosmic and he is the author of The Hindu Connection: Roots of the New Age (1995). His most recent essay on "Eastern Metaphors for the Gospel." appeared in a volume on (1999). Since 1995 Raj serves as associate editor of Missio Apostolica, the journal of the Lutheran Society for Missiology. He is a member of the LCMS Commission on Organizations and field counselor of the Asian Indian Ministries North American Task Force, focusing on ministry among Asian Indian immigrants presently living in North America.

Richard J. Ritchie: Mr. Richard J. Ritchie has been a staff writer for Modern Reformation magazine, a publication of CURE (Christians United for Reformation) since 1989, contributing articles on the proper relationship between Law and Gospel, the Sacraments and Eschatology. A Missouri Synod Lutheran, Ritchie received a B.A. from Christ College Irvine (now Concordia University) in 1988 and in 1990 a M.A. in Theological Studies (MATS) from Gordon-Cromwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts with a concentration in Church History. Ritchie has been a guest on radio programs that include The White Horse Inn and Issues, Etc. His published essays include: "The Law According to Jesus." in (1992). Ritchie attributes his transfer to Christ College Irvine and his pursuit of theological studies to Charles

Trygve R. Skarsten: The Rev. Dr. Trygve R. Skarsten is president emeritus of The Lutheran Bible Institute of Seattle, Issaquah, Washington. He is a native of Brooklyn, New York and was educated in New York City public schools. He is a graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, New York (B.A. in 1949); Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota (B.Th. in 1953); Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey (M.Th. in 1959); and holds a M.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. (1968) from the University of Chicago Divinity School with the thesis "Gisle Westminster Dictionary of Church History and the recent four volume Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Skarsten is also the author of The Scandinavian Reformation: A Bibliographical Guide. (1985) and translator of Oskar Incarnation: Myth or Fact? (1991).

Dean O. Wenthe: The Rev. Dr. Dean O. Wenthe graduated from Effingham High School in South Central Illinois in 1962. After attending Concordia College, Milwaukee. Wisconsin, he received the Bachelor of Arts With Distinction from Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana. His seminary training was done at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri (M.Div., 1971), and Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton. New Jersey (Th.M., 1975), After returning to the seminary from the parish ministry in 1980, he earned advanced degrees (M.A., 1985; Ph.D., 1991) at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, in the Hebrew Scriptures with minors in Judaica and Ethics. Wenthe was called to Concordia Theological Seminary (Springfield, Illinois) as an instructor and then assistant professor of Old Testament (1971-77). While in Springfield, he served as an Air Force Chaplain (Reserves). In 1977 he accepted a call to Zion Lutheran Church, Atlantic, Iowa, and served as pastor for three years. He returned to the Seminary in 1980 as associate professor of Old Testament. While teaching at the Seminary, he served vacancies at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Wayne Trace, Indiana and Zion Lutheran Church, Garrett. Indiana. The past seven years he has been pastoral assistant at Emanuel Lutheran Church. New Haven, Indiana. Wenthe is a member of the Commission on the Sanctity of Life. He has delivered papers at numerous conferences and written articles for various theological journals. He was an associate editor of the Concordia Self-Study Bible. He presently serves as the General Editor of the forthcoming Concordia Commentary series. Wenthe was installed as the 15^th President of Concordia Theological Seminary in 1996, and has published "The Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids." in Parable Interpretations, edited by John A Lively Legacy, edited by Kurt Concordia Theological Quarterly, and "Flesh and Blood The Lutheran Witness (1986).

Glen E. Zweck: The Rev. Dr. Glen E. Zweck is Tutor of Westfield House in Cambridge, England. A native of Blyth, South Australia, he graduated from the Classical Department of Concordia College, Adelaide in 1954, and from the Theological Department in 1957. He was then called to serve as pastor of the Bendigo parish in Victoria (1958-1960). Zweck then accepted the Call to serve the Home Mission field of Central Queensland, being based at Rockhampton (1960-1967), then at Emerald, when the parish was divided in 1967. In 1969 he became pastor of the Lowood-Fairney View parish, in the Brisbane Valley, and in 1970 he became a teacher at Concordia College in Toowoomba, Queensland. In 1978, Zweck accepted the Call to become Tutor of Westfield House, the House of Theological Studies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, where he currently teaches in the areas of Old Testament, Systematic Theology, and Church History. In 1986 Zweck presented a series of lectures to pastors’ conferences in India at Nagercoil, Balaram Puram and Mumbay. He presented lectures to the 1985 Conference of the Association of Confessional Lutheran Seminaries at St. Catharines, and to the International Lutheran Conference and Theologians’ Convocation (Seoul in 1989; Cambridge in 1999). He was also guest professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, lecturing in Dogmatics (1988-1989). In 1989 he was awarded the D.Div.–Honoris Causa, by the Faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary. He contributed the chapter " Mysteria Dei. (1999), his paper, "The Significance of Philosophy For Confessional Training in an Ecumenical Age" was published in Evangelium/Gospel/Euaggelion, and his paper "Lutheran Theological Review.