Lutheran Historical Conference Newsletter

Vol. 38, No. 1...February 2000...ISSN 0460-0274

News by/for/about Members

Paul Daniels, ELCA Region 3 and Luther Seminary Archives, 2481 Como Ave. West, Saint Paul, MN 55108-1455, began work as the acting director of the Learning Resource Center at Luther Seminary, an administrative faculty position, on 20 January 2000. It is anticipated that this will be a 10–12 month appointment until a successor is found. Paul will supervise the work of the various components of the LRC, i.e., the library, the archives/museum, faculty and media services and Luther Productions, the seminary's new curriculum production arm. Daniels will continue work as Region 3 archivist and will receive additional staff and student assistance to keep up with the seminary archives/museum commitments.

Ray A. Kibler III, 4249 La Junta Dr., Claremont, CA 91711-2351, has just published Lutheran Bible Institute: The Original Vision. The book is published by the Lutheran Bible Institute in California in honor of the 50th anniversary of the institution but actually describes the various LBIs around the country and their “… approach to the Bible … and to assess its [the LBI’s] place both in Lutheranism and in the broader intellectual currents of the last two centuries.” The book is $10 from Lutheran Bible Institute in California, 5321 University Drive, Suite H, Irvine, CA 92612-2942.

A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of History, 108 Weaver,
University Park, PA 16802-5500, reports some new publications. First is
“Official and Non-Official Piety and Ritual in Early Lutheranism,” Concordia
Theological Quarterly 63 (April 1999): 119–43. Second is “German and
Dutch Books and Printing,” in Hugh Amory and David Hall, editors, A History
of the Book in America: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (Cambridge,
1999): 298–313.

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