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4-November-1998 
98355 
 
    News of Theological Institutions 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - "Remaking Eden: The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics" was 
the fall convocation address delivered at Louisville Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary by the Rev. Scott C. Williamson, the first professor 
installed there to the Robert H. Walkup Chair in Theological Ethics, Sept. 
17.  A Congregational minister and United Methodist Crusade Scholar, 
Williamson taught at Yale Divinity School and Yale College in the areas of 
biomedical and modern moral ethics since 1993.  He received his Ph.D. from 
Yale Divinity School this past May after completing his dissertation, "The 
Religious and Moral Thought of Frederick Douglass: A Narrative Approach." 
 
DUBUQUE, Iowa - Bishop I. Wayan Mastra of the Christian Protestant Church 
of Bali delivered the Oct. 6-7 Florence Livergood Warren Lectures at the 
University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.  Mastra was born and raised as 
a Hindu in Bali, but was converted to Christianity at age 21.  He attended 
Jakarta Theological Seminary in 1960, earning his master's of sacred 
theology degree from the Dubuque Seminary in 1968 and a Ph.D. from the 
Acquinas Institute of Theology in 1971. 
 
RICHMOND, Va. - Douglas F. Ottati has been installed as the M.E. Pemberton 
Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian 
School of Christian Education (Union-PSCE).  The installation was held Oct. 
22 in the seminary's Watts Chapel.  A ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
Church (USA), Ottati has been a member of the seminary's faculty since 
1977. 
Also at Union-PSCE, John T. Carroll has been appointed the school's dean of 
the Theology Faculty.  Carroll is a professor of New Testament at the 
school and has been a member of the faculty since 1992. 
 
PRINCETON, N.J. - "The Church and the World in a New Century: Faith and 
Responsibility in a Global Future" was the theme of a conference last 
weekend, Oct. 28-30, at Princeton Theological Seminary, sponsored by the 
seminary and World Vision, the largest private Christian development and 
relief agency in the world.  Among the speakers were Francis Fukuyama of 
George Mason University; Roland Robertson of the University of Pittsburgh; 
David Landes of Harvard University; and Robert Seiple of the U.S. State 
Department's Office of Diplomacy, Human Rights and Labor. 
The conference was underwritten by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. 

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