LCM@WVU :: Icons (Schumacher Lecture)

Lutheran Campus Ministry at WVU
Presents a Series of Three Lectures:

ICONS:
WINDOWS INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD

by
The Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Schumacher

All lectures from 7 to 8:30 PM
Free & Open to the Public
at
The Lutheran Campus Chapel
(1497 University, Ave., Morgantown, WV)

Wednesday, April 18

Introduction and How I Became Interested in Iconography
A Look at The Icon of Saint Luke Writing (Painting) [at right is this icon written by Schumacher], The First Icon of the Holy Theotokos, and The Earliest Image of Jesus
How Icons are Written (painted)
The Beginning of an Introduction to Early Christian Images.

Thursday, April 19

A Look at The Icon of the Holy Trinity
Continuation of an Introduction to Early Christian Images
The Eastern Church and the Theology of the Icon
Starting to Look at the Major Icons of the Eastern Church to See the Message of the Scriptures and the Theology of the Church in Lines and Color (Another Look at Saint Luke Writing the First Icon of the Holy Theotokos, etc.).

Friday, April 20

Continuing to Look at the Major Icons of the Eastern Church (Other Major Icons of the Holy Theotokos), The Saints (and I hope you are one too), the Major Festival Icons (The Annunciation, Nativity, Presentation, Mid-Pentecost, Baptism of our Lord, Transfiguration, Triumphant Entry, Crucifixion, Resurrection or Descent into Hell, Ascension, Descent of the Holy Spirit, and a few Others)
What Martin Luther Thought of the Image. Was Luther an Iconoclast or an Iconodule?
May I See Your Face One More Time?

About The Rev. Dr. Frederick Schumacher

Dr. Schumacher was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and grew up in various neighborhoods of New York City. He received his B.S degree from the University of Oklahoma, M.Div. from Central Lutheran Theological Seminary, Fremont, Nebraska (now a part of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago), S.T.M. from New York Theological Seminary and D.Min. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for forty years as Pastor of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, White Plains, New York, retiring in September of 2004. While in White Plains he served for 38 years as chaplain of the cities Police and Fire Departments, Chaplain of the Nathan Miller Nursing Home, President of the Lions Club, a member of the Board of Directors of St. Agnes Hospital, the Wartburg Adult Care Community, the YMCA, and as Dean of the Tappan Zee District (Conference), and a member of the Metropolitan New York Synod Council. He also served as Vice Chairperson of the Lutheran Church in America’s Consulting Committee on Aging that drafted the church’s Social Statement, “The Church and the Older Adult”. Since 1994 he has served as Executive Director of the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, publishers of Lutheran Form and “Forum Letter” and until recently Pro Ecclesia. He is the editor and compiler of the four volume (5,522 page) Lutheran prayer book, For All the Saints: A Prayer Book For and By the Church (with Dorothy Zelenko), published by the ALPB and now in its 4^th printing. He is a Charter Member of the Society of the Holy Trinity and in retirement serves on the Executive Board of the Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship and the board of the Lutheran camp for girls, Camp Ma-He-Tu, and secretary of the White Plains Rural Cemetery Board. Among his many interests is the writing (painting) and collecting of icons and the collecting of medals of Martin Luther and the Reformation period. He has designed several medals of Luther and other persons of the Reformation period and the Gothic Widow of St. Matthew’s Church in White Plains. He is presently working on writing a book that will explain the history of Luther as told in medals and coins which will illustrate over two thousand medals of Luther. He and his wife, Joyce, now reside in Manchester, New Jersey. They have three children and two grandchildren.

For more information

For more information, please contact the Lutheran Campus Ministry, 1497 University Ave., Morgantown, WV, 26505. Or phone 304-296-5388. Or e-mail: Chaplain@LutehranMountaineer.org. Our website is http://www.LutheranMountaineer.org.

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