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17-September-1997 
97368 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
DECATUR, Ga.--The Center for New Church Development has been established at 
Columbia Theological Seminary, directed by the Rev. H. Stanley Wood.  The 
center expects to provide certificate programs and conferences for new 
church development pastors and their spouses, as well as governing body 
personnel who assist in the nurture of new churches.  A grant from the 
Lilly Endowment Inc. will allow the center to conduct the largest ever 
ecumenical study of new church development and new church leaders.  Wood 
will also offer consultations and lead workshops and seminars on strategic 
planning of new church developments. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Nancy Jean Ramsay was installed as the Harrison Ray 
Anderson Professor of Pastoral Theology at Louisville Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary during open convocation ceremonies Sept. 11.  She has 
served as a professor at the seminary since 1983 and is active in the 
American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the American Association of 
Marriage and Family Therapists.  She is also on the staff of the Methodist 
Evangelical Hospital Counseling Center.  Her address focused on an ethic 
for pastoral care based on the kind of radical suffering described in Psalm 
23, which she related to the pastoral care of survivors of child sexual 
abuse. 
 
AUSTIN, Texas--The Rev. E. Quinn Fox has been elected by the board of 
trustees of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary to be the new director 
of the Vocation and Admissions Office.  Fox has served Central Presbyterian 
Church in Longmont, Colo., since 1994, and is completing his dissertation 
toward the Ph.D. in religion from Vanderbilt University. 
 
PITTSBURGH--Four faculty members have been appointed at Pittsburgh 
Theological Seminary by its board of the directors.  They are Dr. Dale C. 
Allison Jr., as associate professor of New Testament and Early 
Christianity; the Rev. John P. Burgess, as associate professor of theology; 
the Rev. Richard A. Ray, as the first occupant of the Meneilly Chair of 
Leadership and Ministry; and Ron E. Tappy, as associate professor of Bible 
and Archaeology and director of the Kelso Bible Lands Museum.  Tappy is 
designated to fill the G. Albert Shoemaker Chair in Bible and Archaeology. 

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