ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON: INTROCUCTION Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> DR. DAVID SCAER: I'm Dr. David Scaer and I've been a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary for 39 years. Ten of those years were in Springfield. Before I came to the seminary, I was a pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Gillespie, Illinois and then Trinity Lutheran Church in Rockville -- in Rockville, Connecticut. When I was also -- when I was at the seminary in Springfield, and that was for ten years, I also was an instructor of religion at the University of Illinois in Champaign. And so I got a wide experience in teaching. If I had to characterize my own teaching and my own interests, I have moved away from the traditional way of doing dogmatics by separating out Bible passages to demonstrate particular doctrines. And my real interest has been in attempting to put theology on a biblical basis, especially to bring it back to the gospels. And in order to do this, there are a number of things which I have written. And you may be able to -- you may have already come across some of these things. I've written a commentary on the epistle of James and on the Sermon on the Mount and really the entire Gospel of Matthew, the discourses, of Matthew's discourses -- the discourses in Matthew. I've enjoyed my work which I have done here at the seminary. And while I'll be doing the area of Christology, my colleague from St. Louis, Dr. Maxwell, will do the area of justification. And it's the sincere hope of both of us that you can see not only how Christology and justification are related to one another -- and I think that's very important. Because they are. I hope this is accomplished by what we do today. But I hope it lays down a pattern that the doctrines of the church are not isolated autonomous singular things but they are all part of a whole. And that what we do here in the classroom today is something which is not only relevant for the practical life of the church, you're dealing with people, you're ministering to their needs and their preaching, but this, the theology, the preaching of theology and the practice of theology, is really not different things but only one thing. >> DR. DAVID MAXWELL: And I'm Dr. David Maxwell. And I'm on the other end of the spectrum from Dr. Scaer. I've been at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis for a little less than one year. So I'm just starting. Before that I was an assistant pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Elkhart, Indiana. I also had the opportunity to do my PhD at Notre Dame and after that taught at Notre Dame for a year. So I have had some experience teaching Roman Catholic undergraduates, which was very interesting. And I am recently married. And I have two stepsons who are 11 and 7 years old. And I would say that my interest is somewhat similar to Dr. Scaer is that I also want to keep theology together from flying apart. But I'm coming at it from a slightly different perspective in that my area is actually early church, which is a time before they started separating theology into different articles of doctrine as if Christology and justification had nothing to do with one another. They hadn't really thought of that idea yet. They just really thought of it as the same thing. So I'm very much looking forward to our time together. And I hope that Dr. Scaer and I are able to show you the riches that Christ has for us. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***