Location: University Lutheran Chapel -- Minneapolis
Date/Time: October 7-9, 2005
Topic: The Shape Of The Church according to the Book of Acts
Dr. Just's Bio: Rev. Dr. Arthur A. Just Jr. was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1953. His family lived overseas in Mexico and Spain for twelve years during his formative years. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Union College, Schenectady, New York, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and English literature in 1975. He attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, receiving a M.Div. degree in 1980. His vicarage was at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. His ?rst parish was at Grace Lutheran Church in Middletown, Connecticut from 1980 to 1984.
Dr. Just studied at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1982) and at Yale Divinity School (1983-1984), receiving his S.T.M. from Yale in New Testament and Liturgics in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Durham in England in 1990 in the New Testament. He has been on the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, since 1984 where he teaches New Testament, liturgics, homiletics, catechetics, and pastoral theology. He is also chairman of the Lectionary Committee for the Lutheran Hymnal Project for the Commission on Worship and a member of the Steering Committee. Dr. Just and his wife Linda have three children, Abigail (22), Nicholas (18), and Jacob (14).