Lectures by visiting lecturer assoc. professor Naomichi Masaki at Luther Academy

At Luther Academy 20-24 November, 2017 every evening from 5.30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., LA students, lecturers and anyone interested have the opportunity to listen to the lectures of the outstanding lecturer of the Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne, Professor NAOMICHI MASAKI.

Dr. Naomichi Masaki is Professor of Systematic Theology, Director of the PhD in Theological Studies Program (PhDTS), and Director of the Master of Sacred Theology Program (STM) at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana (CTSFW).  

• Born and raised in Kobe, Japan.  
• Graduated from Rødde Folkehøgskole near Trondheim, Norway (1979). 
• Received his BA (1985) and MA (1987) degrees in social work and counseling from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.  
• He earned MDiv (1991) and STM (1998) degrees at CTSFW, and holds PhD (2005) degree in doctrinal theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. 
• Ordained in 1991. Served as missionary and pastor in New Jersey, USA (1991–1998). 
• Dr. Masaki has served the LCMS as a member of the Board for District and Congregational Services (1995–2004), the Liturgy Committee of the Lutheran Hymnal Project, the Commission on Worship (1998–until now), as well as Commission on Doctrinal Review (2010–until now).
• As a guest lecturer of the Concordia Seminary, he has lectured in Brazil, Haiti, India, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Tanzania, Ethiopia and now for the first time in Latvia.

Dr. N.Masaki dissertation theme: “The Confessional Liturgical Revival of Theodor Kliefoth and the Works of Liturgical Revision of the Preface in Nineteenth-century Sweden: The Vitality of the Lord’s Supper as Confessed in ‘He Alone Is Worthy!’”.

Books: He Alone Is Worthy!: The Vitality of the Lord’s Supper in Theodor Kliefoth and in the Swedish Liturgy of the Nineteenth Century, Församlingsförlaget of Göteborg, Sweden (2013) and Community: We Are Not Alone, Concordia Publishing House (2007).

Regularly publishes in Concordia Theological Quarterly, Lutheran Quarterly, Lutheran Theological Review, Logia, Homiletics, For the Life of the World, Concordia Pulpit Resources, Kwansei Gakuin Sociology Department Studies, Kyrka och Folk and Journal of Lutheran Mission, of which he serves as an editor.

He and his wife Yohko are blessed with three grown children, Yoshitomo Robert, Satomi Christine, and Emi Sophia.