Concordia Senior College

Concordia Senior College

Active	1957 (1957)–1977 (1977)
Religious affiliation	Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Location	Fort Wayne , Indiana , United States 41°8′21.6″N 85°6′32.8″W / 41.139333°N 85.109111°W / 41.139333; -85.109111Coordinates: 41°8′21.6″N 85°6′32.8″W / 41.139333°N 85.109111°W / 41.139333; -85.109111
Campus	Suburban

Concordia Senior College was a liberal arts college located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). It was founded in 1957 and closed in 1977.

The senior college was a new type of institution for the LCMS. It provided future pastors with training before they attended a seminary, during their third and fourth undergraduate years of college. Concordia Senior College was by-and-large an all-men's institution with no female faculty, although there were a small number of female students who were housed in a separate dormitory.

In 1977, the function of Concordia Senior College was transferred to other LCMS colleges, the Concordia University System. Today those colleges are responsible for much of the undergraduate training of future LCMS pastors. The campus became the home of the Concordia Theological Seminary as that institution relocated from Springfield, Illinois.

Notable people[]

• David Benke - Lutheran pastor and the former president of the Atlantic District of the LCMS
• Clifford Flanigan - American professor of English, medievalist, and theatre historian
• Gary P. Gillum - librarian-emeritus of Brigham Young University
• Alan Harre - eighteenth president of Valparaiso University
• Joel D. Heck - professor of theology at Concordia University Texas
• Ralph W. Klein - American Old Testament scholar
• Robert Kolb - professor emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary,
• James F. Laatsch - former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Donald K. Muchow - former rear admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy
• Richard Pervo - American biblical scholar
• Norbert Schedler - faculty member (associate professor, 1963-1967; chair of the Department of Philosophy, 1968-1969)
• Paul W. Schroeder - American historian
• Ronald Frank Thiemann - American political theologian

External links[]

• Saarinen's Village: The Concordia Campus Through Time