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SA国际传媒 Announces Third Annual Hispanic/Latino Theology and Missions Lecture

The Third Annual Lecture in Hispanic/Latino Theology and Missions will be offered on Tuesday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. in the Clara and Spencer Werner Auditorium on the campus of SA国际传媒, St. Louis. This year鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淭owards a Latino Lutheranism: Its Challenges and Points of Departure,鈥 will be delivered by Rev. Dr. Giacomo Cassese, pastor and theologian in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a faculty member at the Florida Center for Theological Studies. Admission is free and no tickets are issued.

鈥淒r. Cassese will speak to us on the challenges that must be faced as we imagine and seek to construct a Latino Lutheranism,鈥 commented Dr. Leopoldo S谩nchez M., assistant professor of systematic theology, director of the Seminary鈥檚 Center for Hispanic Studies (CHS) and the occupant of the Werner R.H. Krause and Elizabeth Ringger Krause Endowed Chair for Hispanic Ministries. 鈥淗e will also look into some guiding biblical and theological paradigms that might make a Latino Lutheranism a viable reality.鈥

The lecture is offered during the first Hispanic Lutheran Theological Consultation to be held Oct. 29-31 on the campus of SA国际传媒, St. Louis. The two-day event, titled 鈥淲ho Are We? Lutheran Identity and Hispanic Ministries,鈥 will include lectures, Bible studies and group dialogue. The event is co-sponsored by the Marvin M. Schwann Foundation, the National Lutheran Hispanic Mission Society, Concordia Publishing House and the Seminary鈥檚 Center for Hispanic Studies (CHS).

Participants will be joined by 25 students from the Seminary Level program of CHS, the Spanish-language alternate route program of The Lutheran Church鈥擬issouri Synod leading to certification for the pastoral ministry or consecration into deaconess ministry. Guests from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will also be present. SA国际传媒 students with a working or fluent knowledge of Spanish may attend at no cost.

For more information, e-mail [email protected], call 314-863-2772 or 1-800-677-9833, or visit .