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11-February-1997 
97079 
 
                 News of Theological Institutions 
 
                          by Alexa Smith 
 
DECATUR, Ga.--Columbia Theological Seminary has received a $66,000 grant 
from Lilly Endowment, Inc., to study trends in new church development.  The 
two-year project's goal is to develop and use new church models that have 
the potential for long-term membership growth.  Participating denominations 
include the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Evangelical Lutheran Church 
in America, the Reformed Church in America, the American Baptist Church and 
the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. 
 
PITTSBURGH--Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List professor of Jewish studies of 
Harvard Divinity School, is delivering a series of Interfaith Lectures on 
Jewish-Christian Relationships at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Feb. 
16-18.  The series is titled "Did God Forgive Adam?" This inaugural lecture 
series is dedicated to Rabbi Joseph Levine, who received a doctor of 
ministry degree from the seminary in 1984, and Frieda Shapira. 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--James Leighton Carter of Saint Paul, Minn., and Janet 
Waugh Halliday of Columbus, Ohio, have joined the Louisville Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary board of trustees for three-year terms.  Carter is 
pastor of the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul, and Halliday 
is an elder from Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus.  The board 
also voted to elect Helen Jay of Naples, Fla., who has just completed 11 
years of service, as an honorary life trustee. 
 
CHICAGO--The Rev. Raymond Swartzback of McCormick Theological Seminary's 
class of 1950 has been named by the school's board of trustees as the 
recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for 1996.  Swartzback was 
instrumental in setting policies and goals for the denomination's urban 
ministry from the 1950s through the 1980s, serving interracial and 
intercultural inner-city congregations in Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland 
and New York City. 
 
RICHMOND, Va.-- Union Theological Seminary in Virginia has received a 
$350,000 grant from the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation.  The gift -- 
presented in memory of Richard S. Reynolds Sr. and Julia L. Reynolds -- 
will fund the rare book collection display area of Union's new William 
Smith Morton Library.  The rare book collection includes a first edition 
(1559) of John Calvin's "Institution Christianae religionis" and a 
collection of William Blake's work, including "Illustrations of the Book of 
Job." 

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