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4-November-1997 
97419 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
AUSTIN, Texas--Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary will inaugurate the 
Rev. Dr. Robert M. Shelton as its eighth president at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 
14, at the Covenant Presbyterian Church.  Shelton is also the Jean Brown 
Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics and has served the seminary since 
1971, after teaching for three years at Memphis Theological Seminary. 
Shelton has served churches in Tennessee and New Jersey.  He was elected as 
the seminary's president last June by the board of trustees. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Two faculty keynote speakers  -- Diana Garland and J. 
Bradley Wigger -- have been added to the lineup for the "Faith, Families & 
Congregations" Conference set for Nov. 13-15 at Louisville Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary.  Garland will present "The Families in Congregations: 
Ministering to Them, Ministering Through Them," and Wigger will present 
"Entangled in Mystery," a summary of the history and hopes of the Center 
for Congregations and Family Ministry at the seminary and the theological 
vision that inspired it.  Other featured speakers include Marian Wright 
Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund; James Forbes Jr., senior 
minister at The Riverside Church in New York City; Jean Bethke Elshtain, 
the first Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political 
Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School; and David M. Thomas, a 
Roman Catholic theologian and graduate professor of family life and church 
leadership at Regis University in Denver. 
 
PRINCETON, N.J.--At Jubilee Symposim, Nov. 9-12, Princeton Theological 
Seminary will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead 
Sea Scrolls at Qumran in 1947.  Titled "Biblical Theology and the Dead Sea 
Scrolls: A Jubilee Celebration," the event will bring together some 60 
scholars, many of whom have worked on the scrolls during the past 50 years. 
Dr. James H. Charlesworth, Princeton's George L. Collard Professor of New 
Testament Language and Literature and editor of Princeton's Dead Sea 
Scrolls Project, will give the symposium's keynote address at 7 p.m. 
Sunday, Nov. 9, in the seminary's Mackay Campus Center.  Other lecturers 
include Dr. Krister Stendahl, former dean of Harvard Divinity School; Dr. 
Joseph M. Baumgarten of Baltimore Hebrew College; and Dr. James A. Sanders, 
president of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, Calif. 

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