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Setzer Named as Greninger Scholar
August 23, 2010
COLUMBIA, SC - Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, announces that Sue Mullen Setzer, LHD, is the 2010-2011 Greninger Scholar. The Greninger Scholar Award at the seminary recognizes a rostered leader of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) who exhibits excellence in ministry and expresses a desire for further theological study related to special projects or publications in ministry.
Setzer is the Associate Director of Supervised Ministry and Vocational Planning and is Adjunct Instructor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina, campus. She is the first Diaconal Minister in the North Carolina Synod of the ELCA, where she is called by the Synod to work with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in an ecumenical ministry. Since 1995, ELCA Candidacy Committees have recommended that all candidates for ministry study the book she co-authored with Walter Bouman, entitled What Shall I Say? Discerning God's Call to Ministry. This has also been translated into Spanish.
As the recipient of the Greninger Scholar Award, Setzer will spend one week in residency at the seminary in early November. During the week, she will be able to study and interact with seminary faculty and students, as well as provide her with a period for growth and renewal.
Dr. Edwin T. and Mrs. Joan Greninger of Johnson City, Tennessee established the Greninger Scholar Award in 1998. Dr. Greninger was an accomplished writer, historian, and faculty emeritus of history at East Tennessee State University, where he taught from 1958-1986. His father, the Rev. Fred R. Greninger, served a substitute professor at the seminary in the 1940s during World War II while also serving as a military pastor in Columbia. Each year, the bishops of the six synods of Region 9 of the ELCA submit nominations for the award, and then the seminary's Board of Trustees selects the recipient.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, one of eight seminaries of the ELCA, offers graduate and post-graduate degrees to men and women from many Christian denominations and traditions.
