Talk:Institute of Lutheran Theology

Thank you for asking!

--Definitely third party:

The most comprehensive third party source: "Working Toward a Ten Year Strategic Plan" (PDF). Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

--this provides detailed information about ILC, and is from a denomination cooperating with ILC

-->Three accreditation sources, all third party

• 2018 Accreditation
• "Institute of Lutheran Theology - Council for Higher Education Accreditation". www.chea.org.
• ACE president’s weekly email newsletter to higher education leaders

--Possibly Third Party

--Lutheran Forum is an independent moderate Lutheran journal not affiliated with any denomination. Readership tends to be Missouri Synod, ELCA, and split-offs. ILT primarily intends to serve ELCA splitoffs. However, the author of the article is from ILC

"After Schism" (PDF). Lutheran Forum, Summer 2015 issue. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2019., "The Trials of American Lutheranism: The torments that the two major American Lutheran churches have visited on themselves".

--"First Things" is Catholic, but the author of the article cited is from ILC---this journal is found on the periodic shelves of public libraries across the US and has broad Christian readership

First Things. May 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

--This one provides an in-depth look at ILC, and is the most comprehensive of all the sources except for source #5, but that one is not third-party. However, the writer of the article is from ILC. This is a newsletter by/for ELCA split-offs and has low readership

Lutheran CORE Newsletter, Issue 2.2018 Lent

the listing here: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/26-1251815 ...the detailed descriptions of things like the budget, enrollment, and number of books in the library are in the far bottom of the page. These things are presumably self-reported by someone at the institution.

--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Support for this Article

I did not write this article but it is definitely worth a Wikipedia article. It is well referenced and relevant. It is a fully accredited Lutheran seminary serving Lutherans from at least half-a-dozen denominations. It is now the 9th largest of the 19 North American Lutheran Seminaries, with many of the smaller ones having Wikipedia pages. (For the record, I am in no way affiliated with ILT or anything like that, just a keen observer). So I just wanted to throw my support behind this article and state that I believe it should be moved from draft status to a full article.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 1517today (talk • contribs) 22:18, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Well, if it does fail, not all is lost. I'm sure there is an article about it in Christian News, New Haven, MO. I do not have access to this paper currently (nor am I paying for the online subscription); it would in theory be possible for someone to find the article and cite it. Or maybe just write to the editor or ask for the reference. I would imagine it would be the sort of third party, in-depth coverage that is generally requested. That said, I am hoping that it will be approved as is, especially because Lutheran Forum and First Things are peer reviewed journals, so the coverage in them should count as third party, even though the authors to the articles discussing the seminary are from the seminary.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 03:48, 10 February 2019 (UTC)