[B-Greek] Fwd: "Why do we make pastors translate?"
Leonard Isaksson
leonardo1orchardcity at mac.com
Sat Dec 12 14:52:12 EST 2009
> I was thinking the same thing, that Lutheran seminaries have four
> years. We have quite a lot of Scandinavian Lutherans around here.
> But in my experience of the evangelicals, 3 years has been the norm.
> As the disciples were with Jesus 3 years, and Paul went into the
> desert for three years, so Bible school or seminary must be. Or so
> someone said to me many years ago, that this was whyfore.
Leonard Isaksson
> But what got my attention was
>
>> Four years of seminary? That's unusual.
>
> Is it? That's the requirement in most Lutheran seminaries. But then
> when I meet other clergy I guess we don't talk about seminary so much
> as the parish. Or maybe I just need to get out more.
>
> Rev. Alexander Ring
> 11221 Farwest Dr
> Lakewood, WA 98498
>
> akring at mac.com
>
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> resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to
> physics and chemistry.
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