Practical Theology

An Early Field Training (EFT) program during their junior and middler year gives students a modest amount of practical experience under the guidance of pastors in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.

The seminary’s courses in Christian education prepare the students for the many kinds of teaching they will be doing as pastors. The course in the junior year lays a foundation by teaching the principles and methods which are basic to Christian education at any level (child, youth, adult).

The courses in Pastoral Theology present the scriptural principles and their practical application according to which a Lutheran pastor will shepherd his congregation as he administers the work of the congregation, ministers to the sick and the dying, counsels the troubled, the distressed, the tempted, and the erring, and reaches out into the community with the gospel.

Students are prepared for participation in public worship by means of courses that cover the traditional disciplines of homiletics and liturgics. Training in both areas begins in the first semester of the junior year.