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12-March-1997 
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                 News of Theological Institutions 
 
                          by Alexa Smith 
 
PRINCETON, N.J.--Princeton Theological Seminary associate professor of 
church history Paul Rorem has been named editor of the "Lutheran 
Quarterly," a research journal of Lutheran history and theology.  Rorem, a 
Lutheran who joined the Princeton Seminary faculty in 1993, had been 
associate editor of the journal for five years and a member of its 
editorial council since 1987.   
 
AUSTIN, Texas--The Austin (Presbyterian Theological) Seminary Association 
(ASA) honored two alumni, Lynn T. Johnson and Joseph L. Turner, at the 1997 
ASA annual meeting and banquet Feb. 5. Johnson currently serves St. Paul 
Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas, and is moderator of New Covenant 
Presbytery.  He was a 1969 graduate.  A 1971 graduate, Turner is 
establishing a new church in Padre Island, Texas, after serving as the 
seminary's director of admissions and as a pastor in several Texas 
churches. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The annual Hunger Auction and Chili Supper at Louisville 
Presbyterian Theological  Seminary will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, 
March 20, in the Winn Center Main Dining Room.  Each year members of the 
seminary community donate items to be auctioned off to raise money for 
Bread for the World, a hunger organization.  The auction and supper are 
coordinated by the seminary's Hunger Task Force and the event is open to 
the public.  The cost is $2 per adult plus one can of food and $1 per child 
plus one can of food.  The food items will be donated to Kentucky Harvest 
for distribution to hungry people. 
 
ATLANTA--The board of trustees of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary 
installed three new board members at its October board meeting.  They are 
former General Assembly moderator Marj Carpenter of the Big Springs 
Presbyterian Church in Big Springs, Texas; Willie Stevenson Glanton, an 
attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, and an elder at the Westminster Presbyterian 
Church; and Glen N.  Benson, a seminary student who is a member of the 
Grace and Olivet Presbyterian Church in Chester, Pa. 
 
RICHMOND, Va.--Dawn DeVries, associate professor of theology at Union 
Theological Seminary in Virginia, has been named a Henry Luce III Fellow in 
Theology by the Association of Theological Schools.  Luce fellowships 
afford recipients a year of sabbatical research, followed by an annual 
conference to which the fellows present the results of their research. 
DeVries' topic is "The Word of God in the Theology of Friedrich 
Schleiermacher." 

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