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Dec. 8, 2005 |
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Seminary news
AUSTIN, TX — Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is holding its MidWinter Lectures Jan. 30-Feb. 1. The series will feature Luke Timothy Johnson, Cynthia M. Campbell, Carol E. Lytch and William J. Carl. The lectures series started 57 years ago. All lectures will be in the Robert M. Shelton Chapel.
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CHICAGO — Dana K. Peterson is the new vice president for finance and operations of McCormick Theological Seminary. She comes to McCormick after three years as chief financial officer of Chicago Commons Association, a social-services agency. Before entering the non-profit sector, Peterson spent more than 20 years with First Chicago/Bank One.
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LOUISVILLE — Louisville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary will celebrate the ordination
of women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) with a two-day
event starting on March 26. “Wind and Flame — Women
Claiming Sacred Space,” will be a collaboration between
the seminary’s Women’s Center and the Presbytery
of Mid-Kentucky’s Justice for Women Committee. The event
coincides with denominational celebrations on the theme “Tending
the Flame.” The keynote speaker will be the Rev. Katie
Cannon, the first African-American woman ordained to the ministry
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Rev. Katie Cannon
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Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian church.
She also will inaugurate LPTS’s Katie Geneva Cannon Lectureship, a program of the Women's Center.
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LOUISVILLE — Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos has won the 2005 Metroversity Instructional Development Award for her course, “To Know the Heart of the Stranger.” Bos has taught Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, and electives in liberation theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary since
1976. She introduced the course in 2004 after participating in
anti-racism training led by colleague and former LPTS professor
Nancy Ramsay and funded by a grant from the Wabash Center for
Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. The course explores
sexism and racism in U.S. culture and religion. The other Metroversity
institutions are Bellarmine University, Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, University of Louisville, Indiana University Southeast,
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Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos
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Marilynne Robinson
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LOUISVILLE — Marilynne Robinson, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Gilead: A Novel,” is the winner of the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. The novel, first published in 2004 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux of New York, is about the reflections of a dying minister. Robinson is the first novelist to win the Grawemeyer religion prize, given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.
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PITTSBURGH, PA — Pittsburgh Theological Seminary has appointed five members to its 2008 Board of Directors: Christian Allison, Allison Bauer, James Gockley, the Rev. Sonja Stewart and the Rev. F. David Throop.
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PRINCETON, NJ — Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, the William Albright Eisenberger Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, has been elected vice president of the Society of Biblical Literature. She will serve during 2006 and assume the presidency in 2007. The group, founded in 1880, supports the critical investigation of the Bible. Sakenfeld’s research focuses on Old Testament prophetic literature, Israelite and Judean history and feminist Biblical interpretation.
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RICHMOND, VA — Two South African theologians will discuss the importance of unity and reconciliation in South Africa and in a world of diverse cultures in a presentation at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education (Union-PSCE). Dirk J. Smit and H. Russel Botman, professors at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, will speak during the annual Sprunt Lectures Jan. 23-25.
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James H. Charlesworth
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PRINCETON, NJ — James H. Charlesworth, the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, will be honored in a forthcoming book of essays, “Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions.” The contributors are all former students of Charlesworth’s who worked on the seminary’s Dead Sea Scrolls Project. Charlesworth is known for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus research, the Gospel of John, and the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. |
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