{"id":8519,"date":"2022-01-05T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/news\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:08:06","slug":"remembering-lee-snook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/remembering-lee-snook\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Lee Snook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee Snook, professor emeritus of systematic theology at Luther Seminary, died on Thursday, December 23, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cProfessor Snook had a long and storied career forming Christian leaders and teaching the faith in compelling and accessible ways,\u201d said Robin Steinke, president of Luther Seminary. \u201cHis work with students around the world, particularly in the global church, left a lasting impact on all who knew him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before joining the Luther Seminary faculty in 1970, Snook served as a chaplain at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and as senior pastor of the university congregation there. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Gettysburg College (1952) and graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1956. He gained his masters and Ph.D. degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York (1967 and 1970). He was ordained by the United Lutheran Church in America in November 1955 and, before moving to Cornell University, he served St. Luke Lutheran Church in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, and Good Shepherd in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1984-85 he was a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. He retired from Luther Seminary\u2019s faculty in 1999 and then served as adjunct professor for several terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The seminary granted Snook a three-year leave of absence, 1986-89, to become visiting professor of theology at the University of Zimbabwe, a new post funded by the Lutheran World Federation. Beginning in 1992, again with the support of the seminary, Snook and his wife, Lois, established a student program in Harare, Zimbabwe, that took them back to Africa each year for three to four months until his retirement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over their years in Africa, Lee and Lois Snook became collectors of African art, particularly the highly acclaimed Zimbabwe (or Shona) stone sculpture. In Spring 1990, they mounted in the atrium of Olson Campus Center a large exhibit, \u201cSpirit in Stone.\u201d They contributed pieces for the seminary\u2019s permanent art collection and were instrumental in the commissioning of the bronze statue \u201cLiving Hope\u201d by Jeff Barber \u201982, which was installed on the seminary\u2019s campus in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snook was the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews for Word and World, dialog, Christian Century, Theology Today, and other journals. He also served on church boards and commissions. His books include \u201cThe Church Emerging\u201d (edited by John Reumann, 1977), \u201cO God, Pay Attention: A Journal for Lent\u201d (1970), \u201cRenewal in the Pulpit\u201d (edited by Edward Steimle, 1966), \u201cThe Anonymous Christ: Jesus as Savior in Modern Theology\u201d (1986), and \u201cWhat in the World Is God Doing? Re-imagining Spirit and Power\u201d (1999).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A memorial eucharist for Snook will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Luther Seminary\u2019s Chapel of the Incarnation, located in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/campus\/map\/campus-buildings\/\">Olson Campus Center<\/a>, 1490 Fulham St., St. Paul, MN 55108. 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