Thesis (D. Min.)--Concordia Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 143).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Boston University, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [203]-216).

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Charles G. Nauert. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This multi faceted project is an investigation through written and studio research of the complexities of interactions that took place between Lutheran missionaries and Indigenous people at such places as Hermannsburg mission. The study uncovers dialogues and cross-cultural exchanges that led to shifts in understandings of Indigenous Australian cultural practices. It also explores the creation of a place and a cultural space that was occupied by both Lutheran missionaries and Indigenous people, as well as the space between what is generally regarded as binary oppositional perspectives of negative and positive effects of Lutheran missions in Central and South Australia. This has been conceptualized through form, texture and media in a new body of artwork. Whilst clay is predominantly used within this body of studio work to refer to Indigenous cultural practices, to the land and to media introduced by the Lutheran missionaries and mission workers, there are also other significant objects that have been in the Heidenreich family for generations and which create a link between past and present. / "Contact 2002" refers to individual identities (Lutheran and Indigenous), whilst the spaces in between vessels allude to exchanges and dialogue that took place in and around the missions. "Exchange 2003" is suggestive not only of the physicality of interactions that occurred within Lutheran missions such as Hermannsburg, but considers the psychological and spatial consequences of such encounters. / The space created by the presence of the Lutheran church and other buildings built by the early missionaries at Hermannsburg is the focus of "Space/Place 2002", which is also indicative of the interactions which took place in such structures. / The documentation and transliteration of Aboriginal languages by some of the Lutheran missionaries is explored through "Land and Language 2002", in which the importance of the land as teacher and classroom as well as oral traditions for the Indigenous people prior to the arrival of the Lutheran missionaries is also referenced. Accounts of specific documentation of Indigenous Australian languages and the collection of Indigenous cultural objects are represented in "Sand 2002" and "Recollections (of Namatjira) 2003" is suggestive of insights given to the broader Australian public into Aranda cultural and visual art practices. / Exchanges and dialogue that occurred between the Lutherans and the Indigenous people at Hermannsburg is explored again through "Thread(s) 2003", which gives reference to traditions and activities encountered by Indigenous men and women as a result of the presence of the missionaries and their wives. Flour, tea and sugar were materials/ provisions that were sources of exchanges between the Indigenous people and the missionaries and this has been explored in "Cultural Exchanges 2003", whilst in "Zum Andenken 2003" exchanges of knowledge are investigated further. / Thesis (MVisualArts)--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (MEd(Rel Ed)) -- University of South Australia, Adelaide, S Aust, 1994

The governing bodies of Lutheran secondary colleges and schools in Australia are comprised of a cross-section of community-minded people, who have accepted the invitation to serve as college council members. The council members bring a range of experiences and expertise to the task they have accepted. This paper profiles the membership of college councils. It reports, to a limited degree, the alignment or otherwise of the way councils operate against the expectation of the By-laws of the Lutheran Church of Australia in regard to the operation of college councils. The paper also explores the views of both council members and principals on some issues, and uncovers the degree of difference or similarity in these views. The research method used for the study is the survey technique. Questionnaires were sent to the principals, council members and council chairpersons of all the Lutheran secondary colleges in Australia, except one. The research reveals that there are a significant number of issues of organisation and behaviours of Councils on which there are quite differing views, both between Councils, between individual council members, and between councils and principals.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-138).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [311]-349).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [100-103]).

Thesis (M.Th.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2003. / Bibliography: leaves 70-82. Issued also in microform.