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November 13, 2006
Seminary news
SAN ANSELMO, CA — Philip L. Wickeri, the Hewlett professor of evangelism and mission at San Francisco Theological Seminary and one of seven Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2005-06, presented his research Nov. 4 in Pittsburgh during the annual conference sponsored by the Association of Theological Schools and the Henry Luce III Foundation.
Wickeri shared his findings on K.H. Ting and the Christian church in China.
“As China’s best-known theologian, Ting’s central theological concern has been love as God’s primary attribute and the importance for Christians to practice that love in their ethics and society,” Wickeri writes. “[Ting’s] writings have stressed the continuity between creation and redemption; the Cosmic Christ who presides over all human history; and a de-emphasis on ‘justification by faith’ in Chinese Protestantism.”
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AUSTIN, TX — On Nov. 14, the Rev. Cynthia L. Rigby will be inaugurated as the W.C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Rigby, a graduate of Brown University, earned her M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She has served on the Austin seminary faculty since 1995. Prior to that she served pastorates in New Jersey and also served in the mission field in the Philippines.
The author of more than 30 scholarly articles and book chapters, Rigby is currently finishing two books, The Promotion of Social Righteousness (Witherspoon Press) and In Fullness the Faith: A Christian Feminist Theology (Baker Academic). She is co-chair of the Christian Systematic Theology Section of the American Academy of Religion.
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PRINCETON, NJ — The Rev. James H. Cone, the Charles H. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the New York City, will deliver the Geddes W. Hanson Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Nov. 16.
Cone is known for his honest and insightful work on such critical topics as black theology, violence, and religion. His most recent book, Risks of Faith (1999), brings together his
international experiences and expertise through his critique of theological belief and social practice. He is the author of 11 books and more than 150 articles.
The Hanson Lecture, a biannual lectureship established at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1992 by the Association of Black Seminarians, was named to honor Geddes W. Hanson, the Seminary’s first African American faculty member, in recognition of his outstanding academic and spiritual guidance to the students of the seminary. Hanson joined the Princeton faculty in 1969.
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DECATUR, GA — Columbia Theological Seminary has developed two new tools to help connect congregations with student interns.
For congregations interested in hosting a student for a pastoral internship, an interactive Church Information Form (CIF) is available now on the seminary’s Web site. Congregations submit the CIF electronically to apply for approval as a teaching congregation.
In January, current students will have access to a password-protected online catalog of CIFs from approved teaching congregations. The catalog, including internships for summer 2007 and for the next academic year, will be updated continuously as internships are approved by the seminary’s Supervised Ministry office.
For more information, please contact Lee Carroll, director of supervised ministry, at carrolll@ctsnet.edu.
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LOUISVILLE — Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has received two grants to help fund the institution's student scholarship endowment.
In September, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations awarded the seminary $200,000 to “clear the way for racial ethnic minority students to obtain a formal theological education,” said LPTS President Dean K. Thompson.
In October, the William Randolph Hearst Foundations announced in The Chronicle of Philanthropy a grant of $100,000 to aid the school’s scholarship endowment for minority students.
The two grants are consistent with the seminary’s increased focus on racial ethnic diversity, including the calling of four new faculty, creation of a new permanent Cultural Diversity Committee in its governance structure, and substantial work, financed by two grants from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, on the development of anti-racism resources for practical theological education.
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