Patrick R. Keifert
Professor of Systematic Theology  

Email: pkeifert@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/pkeifert/ Office: (651) 641-3254    Office: GH 304 Sabbatical (7/1/2009-12/31/2009)

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
IC 2620	LUTHERAN CONFESSIONAL WRITINGS	Spring Semester 2009-2010
ST 8465	THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS	Spring Semester 2009-2010
IC 2631 50	TRUTH & MEANING: RHET APPR-ONLINE	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2620 01	LUTHERAN CONFESSIONAL WRITINGS	Fall Semester 2008-2009
ST 8435	PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS	Fall Semester 2008-2009
ST 8475	THE CONGREGATION	Fall Semester 2008-2009

Patrick R. Keifert is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics. For other faculty and staff resources, visit our Online Resource Guide

• Congregational Studies and Mission
• Doctrine of the Church
• Lay Leadership Development
• Long Range Planning
• Visioning

Links:
		Church Innovations

View a detailed curriculum vitae for Patrick R. Keifert here. This includes education, professional positions, activities, memberships and publications.

Ph.D.	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	1982
Ordained	ELCA	1978
M.Div.	Christ Seminary-Seminex	1977
B.A.	Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN	1973

Patrick Keifert was named an instructor in systematic theology at Luther Seminary in 1980 and was made associate professor in 1986. He has also been an adjunct professor at the School of Law, Hamline University, St. Paul, since 1984. His teaching experience began at Christ Seminary -- Seminex [more...]

"I am deeply moved when students understand why documents written hundreds or thousands of years ago really are vital for life and for their ministry."

Patrick Keifert, a theologian who has also studied law, is decidedly analytical. He says: "What I probably teach best is how to think [more...]

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