Name: Zager, Daniel.
Biography: Zager, Daniel.
Daniel Zager is Associate Dean and Head Librarian of the Sibley Music Library (at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester). Dr. Zager is also Associate Professor of Musicology; Affiliate Faculty (in the Department of Organ and Historical Keyboards). He holds the Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Minnesota, where his dissertation is entitled: The polyphonic Latin hymns of Orlando di Lasso, 1985. He has contributed chapters to Orlando di Lasso Studies (1999) and Orlandus Lassus and his time (1995). He also edited the recent Festschrift entitled Music and theology : essays in honor of Robin A. Leaver (Scarecrow Press, 2007).
Previously he served as Adjunct Associate Professor and Music Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sources:
1) LC Control Number: n 2006049526
2) http://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/?page=staff
3) http://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?i=dept#8
4) http://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/zagercultureschoralesandcatechesis.pdf
Name: Wenthe, Dean O.
Year of Birth: 1944
Biography: After graduating from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 1971, Dr. Wenthe was assistant professor at Concordia Theological Seminary of Springfield-Fort Wayne from 1971-1977. He received his Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1974. He was pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church, Atlantic, Iowa, 1977-1980. He received his Ph.D. in Hebrew Scriptures from the University of Notre Dame with minors in Ethics and Judaica. He served on the Commission of Theology and Church Relations 1977-1980, and is currently a member of the President's Commission on the Sanctity of Life. He also served for seven years as Pastoral Assistant at Emanuel Lutheran Church, New Haven, Indiana, prior to being elected President of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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1) LC Control Number: n 2002100070
2) http://www.ctsfw.edu/Page.aspx?pid=357
Name: Grime, Paul J.
Biography: Paul J. Grime was born to Arden and Mary Grime in December 29, 1958, and spent all of his formative years in Archbold, a small town in northwest Ohio. He attended Valparaiso University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance and church music. The following year he completed a Master of Music in organ performance at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His organ instructors were William Eifrig (Valparaiso) and David Mulburry (Cincinnati). In 1982, he matriculated to Concordia Theological Seminary where he completed the MDiv degree in 1986. He stayed on for one additional year, serving as acting Kantor at Kramer Chapel, graduating with an STM in 1987.
Following studies at CTS, Dr. Grime moved to Milwaukee where he began his doctoral studies at Marquette University. Concurrently, he received a call from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in West Allis, Wisconsin, where he served from 1987 to 1996. He was awarded a PhD in Religious Studies in 1994, writing his dissertation on the topic “The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Hymns of Martin Luther.” His doctoral advisor was Kenneth Hagen.
In 1996, Dr. Grime accepted a call to serve as Executive Director for the LCMS Commission on Worship in St. Louis. During his eleven years in that capacity, he served as project director, first for the development of Hymnal Supplement 98 and then for Lutheran Service Book, the synod’s new hymnal, and all of its companion volumes, which were published in 2006 and 2007.
Dr. Grime joined the CTS faculty in the fall of 2007. He serves as Dean of the Chapel and teaches in the Pastoral Ministry and Missions department. He is married to Debra; they have two sons, Matthew and Nathan, who love sports of every kind.
Name: Just, Arthur A., Jr.
Biography: Arthur A. Just Jr. was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1953. His family lived overseas in Mexico and Spain for twelve years during his formative years. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Union College, Schenectady, New York, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English literature in 1975. He attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, receiving a M.Div. degree in 1980. His vicarage was at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. His served Grace Lutheran Church in Middletown, Connecticut as pastor from 1980 to 1984.
Dr. Just studied at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1982) and at Yale Divinity School (1983-1984), receiving his S.T.M. from Yale in New Testament and Liturgics in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Durham in England in 1990 in the New Testament.
Dr. Just has been on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, since 1984. He is presently Professor of Exegetical Theology, Dean of the Chapel, Director of Deaconess Studies, and Co-Director of the Good Shepherd Institute of Pastoral Theology and Sacred Music. He teaches New Testament, liturgics, homiletics, catechetics, and pastoral theology. He has contributed a chapter on “Liturgical Renewal in the Parish" to Lutheran Worship: History and Practice by Concordia Publishing House, articles on preaching, liturgy, and New Testament in various periodicals, and his doctoral thesis, The Ongoing Feast: Table Fellowship and Eschatology at Emmaus, was published in 1993 by Pueblo Publishing Company, an imprint of The Liturgical Press. Dr. Just published a two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke for the Concordia Commentary. The first volume appeared in December 1996 and the second volume in November of 1997. He also published the Lukan volume for the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture from InterVarsity Press, Thomas C. Oden, General Editor ( February 2003).
This year, he published two books from CPH: one for pastors, deaconesses, and lay people for the visitation of the sick and dying entitled Visitation, and another book on the liturgy of the church entitled Heaven on Earth: The Gifts of Christ in the Divine Service, a book that expands his video series on the liturgy entitled Liturgy: Yesterday, Today, and Forever. He was also chairman of the Lectionary Committee for Lutheran Service Book for the Commission on Worship and a member of the Steering Committee. He and his wife Linda have three children, Abigail, married to Pr. Joshua Genig and grand-daughter, Emma Mary, and two sons, Nicholas and Jacob.
Name: Resch, Richard C.
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Name: Pless, John T., 1953-
Year of Birth: 1953
Biography: Rev. John T. Pless is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne where he also serves as Director of Field Education and Editor of For the Life of the World. Prior to joining the faculty, he served for seventeen years as campus pastor at University Lutheran Chapel at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. From 1979 to 1983, he served on the staff at the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso University. He is a graduate of Texas Lutheran College, Sequin, Texas (B.A., 1975) and Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio (M.Div., 1979). He entered The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod by colloquy at Concordia Theological Seminary in 1983. He has done additional graduate work at the Pontifical College Josephenium and the Methodist School of Theology.
A regular lecturer at various conferences both in the United States and overseas, Prof. Pless coordinates the seminary’s annual “Mercy Mission Expedition to Madagascar” in partnership with the LCMS Board for World Relief and Human Care. He serves as co-president of the International Loehe Society and is a member of the LCMS Committee on the Sanctity of Human Life.
Sources:
1) LC Control Number: n 2004100831
2) http://www.ctsfw.edu/Page.aspx?pid=376
Name: Hildebrand, Kevin J.
Biography: Kevin Hildebrand is Associate Kantor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. His teaching at the seminary includes courses in vocal development, music fundamentals, and music for worship, as well as choir and organ responsibilities for daily chapel and other services. His service to the Church also includes teaching the annual organist workshops at the seminary, and assisting with the seminary’s Good Shepherd Institute, a resource for pastoral theology and sacred music. Hildebrand has also founded and directs the Seminary Children’s Choir, composed of children from the seminary community. He also directs the Youth Choir at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and School in Ft. Wayne.
Hildebrand is a graduate of Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, and also holds master’s degrees in music and theology The University of Michigan and Concordia Theological Seminary, respectively. He has studied organ with Steven Wente and Marilyn Mason, and composition with Richard Hillert, Robert Lind, and James Aikman.
Kantor Hildebrand is an active composer and has numerous compositions for organ and choir published with Concordia Publishing House and MorningStar Music Publishers. His hymn tune LORD OF LIFE (used with the text, “O Christ, Who Shared Our Mortal Life”) as well as other hymn harmonizations are represented in Lutheran Service Book (2006). He has also been a workshop leader and instructor for the LCMS Commission on Worship, as well as frequent organ recitalist and hymn festival presenter across the United States and Canada. He is a member of the Indiana District Board for Worship and Spiritual Care.
Name: Cwirla, William M.
Biography: He is the pastor of HOly Trinity Lutheran Church in Hacienda Heights, California; the president of Higher Things, a Lutheran youth organization; and the co-host of the acclaimed podcast, The God Whisperers. He was a member of the Liturgy Committee for the Lutheran Service Book.
Name: Resch, Barbara J
Biography: Dr. Barbara J. Resch, Coordinator of Music Education, Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne, and Director of Children's Choir, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Name: Hofreiter, Paul
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Name: Sell, Mark E.
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