(Fort Wayne, IN)-Kurt Marquart, Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary (CTS), was awarded a Festschrift during the 1999 Symposia banquet in Fort Wayne.

Entitled Mysteria Dei, the festschrift is a collection of essays written in Marquart's honor by colleagues and former students. Given in honor on the occasions of his 65th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his ordination into the Holy Ministry, Professor Marquart was presented with the festschrift by it's editors the Rev. Paul T. McCain, Assistant to the President of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and the Rev. John Stephenson, Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario.

"As the editors of Mysteria Dei we wish to record our ongoing personal debt to Professor Marquart," explained the Rev. Paul T. McCain. "For he is an unassuming yet vastly gifted man of God who, as pastor, scholar, and teacher, strikingly exemplifies the vocation described in St. Paul's charge to Timothy: "... what you have heard from me before many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (II Timothy 2:2).

Contributors to the festschrift include the Rev. Charles Evanson, Pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. Jonathan F. Grothe, President and Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario; the Rev. Tom Hardt, deceased, was Pastor of St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stockholm, Sweden; the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. C. Robert Hogg Jr., Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario; the Rev. Arthur A. Just Jr., Associate Professor of Exegetical and Practical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. John Kleinig, Lecturer in Old Testament at Luther Seminary, Adelaide, Australia; the Rev. Paul McCain, Assistant to the President of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; the Rev. Cameron MacKenzie, Professor of Historical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. Jonathan Naumann, Pastor of St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Ruislip, Middlesex, England; the Rev. Walter Otten, Pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Brookfield, Illinois; the Rev. Andrew Pfeiffer, Lecturer in Practical Theology at Luther Seminary, Adelaide, Australia; the Rev. John Pless, Pastor of University Lutheran Chapel, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Rev. Hermann Sasse, deceased, was Professor of at Erlangen University, Germany and Professor at Luther Seminary, Adelaide, Australia; the Rev. David Scaer, Professor of Exegetical and Systematic Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. Harold Senkbeil is Pastor of Elm Grove Lutheran Church, Elm Grove, Wisconsin; the Rev. John Stephenson, Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario; the Rev. Erling Teigen, Professor of Theology at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota; the Rev. William Weinrich, Professor of Historical Theology and Academic Dean at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. Dean Wenthe, President and Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Rev. John Wilch, Professor of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario; and the Rev. Glen Zweck, Tutor of Westfield House, Cambridge, England.

Copies of Mysteria Dei may be purchased for $22.50 + tax by calling the Seminary Bookstore at 219-452-2160.

Professor Marquart received his Bachelor of Theology degree in 1959 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. In 1982 he earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario. In 1975 he accepted a call to teach Systematic Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana where he still currently teaches. Over the years, Professor Marquart has contributed numerous articles for theological journals and has been in frequent demand as an essayist and lecturer on the Lutheran Confessions. He and his wife Barbara are the parents of five grown children.

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