Now that I am a Seminary grad, I can reflect on some of my experiences there. One of the absolute best was having the pleasure of having Dr. Timothy Dost as an instructor. He was quite helpful to me both inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he provided the following gems:
"Sophistry is for money. Nominalism is for free."
"People feel very strongly about not having feelings in church."
"I'd be for moving in the direction of making God a verb."
"Sterile and nuts is not a good way to run an empire."
"Let's all join hands and go to hell together. God always sides with a righteous and holy majority."
"You can't do it unless you're Triune."
"The devil doesn't rule hell. He doesn't rule anywhere!"
That's just a sampling of the way he makes class interesting.
Needless to say, Prof. Dost was my favorite professor. I had him for just about all my history classes at the Sem. They were: Zwingli and the Radicals, History of the LCMS, The Lutheran Reformation, and Western Christian Life and Thought, and Introduction to Historical Theology.
As I said before, though, he was also a great help outside of the classroom. Let me share just one personal story. As some of you faithful readers may know, I went through a divorce while I was a Seminary student. I felt I could trust Dr. Dost. We were meeting in his office to go over my papers. (He meets with every student to discuss their respective papers.) Anyway, as he was reading and critiquing mine, he said, "This isn't as good as you normally write. Wanna tell me what's going on?" I was absolutely floored! I then told him what the story was. He then prayed with me and gave me some words of encouragement. It was then that he became my favorite professor. Truly one of those people that makes the world a better place.
