current Catalog - Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

ACADEMIC AWARDSJames Kenneth Echols Prize for Excellence in PreachingThe James Kenneth Echols Prize is an annual preaching competition established andfunded by Mr. LeRoy T. Carlson, a long-time generous supporter of LSTC’s ministry,in honor of James Kenneth Echols, president of LSTC from 1997 - 2011. The goalsof the prize are to promote the quality and excellence of preaching, to inspire studentsat LSTC to use fully their varied gifts to improve their preaching skills, to increasethe visibility and importance of preaching the gospel on the LSTC campus and theworld beyond, and to recognize the Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Echols and his manycontributions to LSTC by naming the prize in his honor.Edgar Krentz Prize for Greek ExegesisThis prize comes from an endowment established by the children of Edgar Krentz,Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor Emeritus of New Testament, to support theteaching and learning of biblical Greek at LSTC. Students are invited to submitan exegetical paper that uses the Greek language to interpret a New Testamenttext theme. Evaluative criteria include the significance of the text or problemaddressed; the use of the Greek language and philological data in New Testamentinterpretation; quality and clarity of English writing; and application of theconclusions reached to the contemporary church and/or world.Lutheran Confessions PrizeThe annual Lutheran Confessions Prize is made possible by a generous gift from ananonymous donor and is intended to foster contemporary research in the sixteenthcenturyevangelical Lutheran tradition. Essays submitted for consideration mustreflect intensive scholarly research in the Lutheran Confessions and/or the writingsof the sixteenth-century Lutheran reformers, although they need not be limitedto those sources. Writers are encouraged to bring the Reformation heritage intointentional dialogue with the contemporary theological world.86