His interest for some time has been in the area of Gospels and their order and interdependency. Professor Scaer's interest in New Testament studies is shown in his James: The Apostle of Faith (Concordia Publishing House) which demonstrated this epistle's close connection to the preaching of Jesus and its basic unity with the Pauline epistles. His Latin Ecclesiastical Glossary, a dictionary of Latin terms for Lutheran seminary students, is regularly used with Pieper's Christian Dogmatics. He is listed as a contributing editor for Logia and Modern Reformation. Dr Scaer was a member of the composing committee for "Evangelical Affirmations 1989" and a contributor of essays published for the May meeting (1990). He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Alliance of Confessional Evangelicals and the Christianity Today Institute, for which periodical he also serves as a research scholar. Behnken Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award by AAL for study in Europe (1969,1986).Ī parish pastor serving congregations in Gillespie, Illinois and Rockville, Connecticut, he also taught for ten years as a part time instructor in religion at the University of Illinois (Champaign) (1966-1976). Twice he was awarded the prestigious John W.
For the same series he is also authoring the volumes of Law and Gospel and the Sacraments. A second volume in this series, Baptism, has been published by the Lutheran Academy. His Christology (1990) was the first volume to appear in the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics, and is in its fourth printing. Scaer has written extensively and his articles have appeared in Christianity Today, Lutheran Forum, Logia, Forum Letter, the Lutheran Witness, Modern Reformation, Cresset, the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Grace Theological Journal and Issues in Christian Education. He is currently chairman of his department. At the seminary since 1966 he serves as editor of the Concordia Theological Quarterly (1969-1994 1999- ) and was academic dean (1984-1989).
Scaer Chair of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN.
David Scaer is a professor of Systematic Theology and New Testament and holder of the David P.
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