Attending Concordia Seminary

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Hi everyone.

I haven't been on in a good long while since life has been very busy, but I wanted to keep everyone updated and let ya'll known that I've enrolled in Concordia Seminary and am about halfway through the summer Greek course. Anyway, just wanted to keep up.

Hope everyone is doing well!

[CaliforniaJosiah]

Blessings to you.....


BTW, my father insists that Greek was the hardest thing he'd ever studied. He went to a Bible college for 3 years - part time - learning Greek and Hebrew (he claims Hebrew is easy). But he learned it well. He has not used ANY translation since. It does make participating in his Bible classes kind of interesting - he'll read a section (translating rather loosely as he goes) as fast as we can read in our translation, but he's next to impossible to follow.


BTW, do they still use Francis Pieper's Christian Dogmatics at the sem? My dad used that 3 vol. set to teach me theology. It took 3 solid, long years to do it (he's one tough teacher!), 12 months for each book!


Best of everything. I hope you'll not be a stranger here at CF. Perhaps you'll let some of your fellow seminarians know about the site here. It's become soooooo boring, I HOPE we can get some interesting convos going again in the various forums of CF.



Pax


- Josiah




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[Jim47]

Congratulations and keep up the good work, also best wishes on your language study. :)

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Blessings to you.....


BTW, my father insists that Greek was the hardest thing he'd ever studied. He went to a Bible college for 3 years - part time - learning Greek and Hebrew (he claims Hebrew is easy). But he learned it well. He has not used ANY translation since. It does make participating in his Bible classes kind of interesting - he'll read a section (translating rather loosely as he goes) as fast as we can read in our translation, but he's next to impossible to follow.


BTW, do they still use Francis Pieper's Christian Dogmatics at the sem? My dad used that 3 vol. set to teach me theology. It took 3 solid, long years to do it (he's one tough teacher!), 12 months for each book!


Best of everything. I hope you'll not be a stranger here at CF. Perhaps you'll let some of your fellow seminarians know about the site here. It's become soooooo boring, I HOPE we can get some interesting convos going again in the various forums of CF.

Hey, good to hear from you.

From what little we've talked about concerning Hebrew amid our Greek study, I can certainly see why people say Hebrew is easier; no noun cases, no tenses. Really it's just the vocabulary that will be hard since there's so fewer cognates. Then again, grammatical imprecision is just as likely to make actual exegesis a pain in the rear.

As for Pieper, it's still being used as the main systematics course book, I believe (can't wait to dive in), though it may be supplemented by the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series. The CLD, if you're not familiar with it, is a collection of books published by CPH with authors like Preus and Scaer in order to address some concerns Pieper doesn't cover in Christian Dogmatics. They're actually very good- Scaer's books 'Christology,' 'Baptism,' and his most recent book that came out last month called 'Law and Gospel and the Means of Grace' are absolutely fantastic.

[LilLamb219]

Hey! Glad to see you here!!! That's awesome that you're taking Greek. I'd love to learn both Greek & Hebrew, but Spanish comes first. :)

[DaRev]

Blessings to you, GCC! :clap:

It has been said that if one finds Greek easy, Hebrew will be difficult, and vice versa. While Hebrew doesn't have the numerous declensions and verb tenses, there are other things about Hebrew that are just as challenging. But you'll get a much fuller appreciation of God's word when you can study it in the original languages. It's really fascinating. Who is your Greek prof? Mine was Dr. Schuchard.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Haha, well then Greek should be a synch, ha!

Dr. Oschwald, soft-spoken but very witty guy.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Hey! Glad to see you here!!! That's awesome that you're taking Greek. I'd love to learn both Greek & Hebrew, but Spanish comes first. :)

Ha, fair enough. I'd like to go back and finish learning Spanish one day, especially since I want to do some research work in Salamanca, Spain on the counter-Reformation, someday.

[Melethiel]

Haha, well then Greek should be a synch, ha!

Dr. Oschwald, soft-spoken but very witty guy.
I think you mean Hebrew, since you haven't exactly been giving the impression that Greek is easy, and it's spelled "cinch". ;)

[QuiltAngel]

GratiaCorpusChristi
Summer Greek! How I remember those days when hubby was in summer Greek.

Blessings to you as you study at the Seminary.

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

I think you mean Hebrew, since you haven't exactly been giving the impression that Greek is easy, and it's spelled "cinch". ;)

Yeesh, mistakes right and left...

[BonnieT]

Keep up the good work. My husband went to Concordia, St. Louis. However, he didn't take summer Greek; we needed the summer to move to St. Louis. He took it in the fall. Darn near ate, drank, and slept Greek. I used to help him with Greek flash cards, until the pile got too big. I didn't want to spend 1 1/2 hours "flashing" him. :) I learned some words, though. And taught myself the alphabet.

[Melethiel]

You should see my pile of Greek flashcards. :D It's about 6 inches tall...
Not that I remember much of it...

[ctay]

There's 2 young men going to the seminary from my parents church, one finished his basic stuff and will be starting the seminary this fall and I think the other one is a year ahead of him and is taking the summer off. I think they'll be both going to the one in St Louis but I'm not sure.

[Edial]

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BTW, my father insists that Greek was the hardest thing he'd ever studied. He went to a Bible college for 3 years - part time - learning Greek and Hebrew (he claims Hebrew is easy). But he learned it well. He has not used ANY translation since. ...

This IS impressive.

[Edial]

Yeesh, mistakes right and left...
You know them spellings nazis are always around the corner ...

[Edial]

You should see my pile of Greek flashcards. :D It's about 6 inches tall...
Not that I remember much of it...
This reminded me ...
When I became a Christian there was a teacher I respected very much.
he was really instrumental in my beginning steps as a Christian.
He was telling me how verse memorization is important.
He told me that once he memorized over 60 well known verses.

Then I asked him in the naivetee of a new believer: "Do you remember them now?"

I think he smiled and said: "No". :)

Thanks for that, :)
Ed

[NordicLutheran]

I've never met a Ft. Wayne educated Pastor. I'm visiting Ft. Wayne very soon just to see if I will change my mind about St. Louis. I'm sort of scared that I'll like Ft. Wayne better. It's 3 extra hours away from home than St. Louis is. I guess I'll never have to see my family. :(

[QuiltAngel]

There are no Ft. Wayne educated Pastors in your area? That can't be! Actually, I am married to one.

[Edial]

There are no Ft. Wayne educated Pastors in your area? That can't be! Actually, I am married to one.
:D.

I found wives of pastors to be fascinating ladies. Every wife of a Lutheran pastor that I know seem to be incredibly respectful of their husbands.

Oh, they probably let them have it one on one, :D but they are so jealous of their husbands, it is really nice to see. :)

Thanks, :)
Ed

[DaRev]

I've never met a Ft. Wayne educated Pastor. I'm visiting Ft. Wayne very soon just to see if I will change my mind about St. Louis. I'm sort of scared that I'll like Ft. Wayne better. It's 3 extra hours away from home than St. Louis is. I guess I'll never have to see my family. :(

Nothing wrong at all with visiting both campuses. I did and it was the best thing. I was intent on attending Fort Wayne simply because it was a smaller community and a bit closer to home. I had no intentions of attending St. Louis at all. I didn't like big cities and was actually a bit fearful. I had applied and visited St. Louis at the urging of my pastor, and I was actually accepted at both sems. The reception that my family and I had at Fort Wayne was very cold and unwelcoming, while the reception at St. Louis was very welcoming and warm and they went out of their way in many ways to accomodate my kids and myself. It wasn't a difficult decision as to which school I would attend. And I am so grateful that the Lord directed me there. I absolutely loved St. Louis and would go back there if ever given the opportunity.

[NordicLutheran]

Lutherans are supposed to be cold. Haha just kidding. Hopefully there are no differences between the two. We are visiting Ft Wayne in a few weeks and I'm trying to decide where we should go to Church at. I'm either thinking Kramer Chapel, or the biggest Lutheran church in America St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (According to wikipedia) With both churches being so big I wonder if I still should contact the Pastor about communion. My whole family is LCMS so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.

[Edial]

Lutherans are supposed to be cold. Haha just kidding. Hopefully there are no differences between the two. We are visiting Ft Wayne in a few weeks and I'm trying to decide where we should go to Church at. I'm either thinking Kramer Chapel, or the biggest Lutheran church in America St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (According to wikipedia) With both churches being so big I wonder if I still should contact the Pastor about communion. My whole family is LCMS so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
You know, I am really proud to see so many Lutheran young men going in the right direction.

Maybe because we do not have young people with such a good dedication in our small congregation.

It is good to see.

Thanks, :)
Ed

[QuiltAngel]

If you want a very confessional service to go to, you could attend Redeemer.

[DaRev]

Lutherans are supposed to be cold. Haha just kidding. Hopefully there are no differences between the two. We are visiting Ft Wayne in a few weeks and I'm trying to decide where we should go to Church at. I'm either thinking Kramer Chapel, or the biggest Lutheran church in America St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (According to wikipedia) With both churches being so big I wonder if I still should contact the Pastor about communion. My whole family is LCMS so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.

Kramer chapel does not have Sunday services. I believe their communion service is Tuesday.

[NordicLutheran]

Would Redeemer have a higher liturgy than St. Pauls.

[QuiltAngel]

Not sure how St. Paul's and Redeemer compare, but Redeemer is pretty high church.