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11-December-1998 
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    Live Online Faculty Chats on Princeton Seminary's Web Site 
 
    by Barbara Chaapel 
    Princeton Theological Seminary 
 
PRINCETON, N.J. - Talking with a Princeton Seminary faculty member about 
Mary, the mother of Jesus, during Advent is as easy as clicking on 
www.ptsem.edu on your computer.  Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Princeton 
Theological Seminary New Testament professor and author of Mary: Glimpses 
of the Mother of Jesus, will be online on Monday, Dec. 14 from 7:30 to 8:30 
p.m. EST (U.S.) as part of the Seminary's online continuing education 
course offerings. 
 
    The online discussion, during which Gaventa will answer questions from 
participants, is part of Princeton's series Live from Princeton: Chats with 
Princeton Seminary Faculty, introduced in the fall with online sessions 
with New Testament professor Brian Blount and pastoral theologian Robert 
Dykstra.  The chat sessions are free and there is no registration required. 
 
    Two more chat sessions will be offered in the spring: one with Dr. 
Charles Bartow on his book God's Human Speech: A Practical Theology of 
Proclamation on February 8 at 7:00 p.m. EST and one with Dr. Diogenes Allen 
on his book Spiritual Theology in April, the date to be announced. 
 
    In addition to these events, the Center of Continuing Education is also 
offering an online event that is not live, but that offers participants the 
opportunity to prepare sermons together for Lent with Seminary faculty 
members. 
 
    Dr. Dennis Olson will host Letting Go and Setting Free: Old Testament 
Preaching Texts for Lent between Jan. 6 and Feb. 3, 1999.  He will post 
exegetical notes on each of the Old Testament Lectionary texts for Lent 
Year A (1999) on a closed site early in January.  These texts offer a 
sweeping overview of the great theological themes and events of the Old 
Testament, including the Fall, the promise to Abraham and Sarah, Israel's 
wilderness journey, the hope of new life out of exile, and the Old 
Testament's witness to Christ. 
 
    Participants will gather for online discussion and, along with Dr. 
Olson, will prepare to preach on these Old Testament texts.  Each 
participant will be asked to prepare - and share with others in the course 
- one sermon for one of the six Sundays in Lent by Jan. 20.  Participants 
will also be asked to respond online to at least two other sermons.  All 
participants will receive individual feedback from Olson. 
 
    This event is taught completely online, so participants must have a 
computer, email, and access to the Internet. 
 
    The course is limited to twelve participants and costs $50. 
 
    For further information on these events, click on 
www.ptsem.edu/ce/cal9899/ce-area8.htm  To register, download a registration 
form at www.ptsem.edu/ce/cal9899/ce-register.htm  To subscribe or 
unsubscribe to online announcements from the Center of Continuing 
Education, click on www.ptsem.edu/ce/cal9899/listserv.htm 
 
    The Seminary will also offer an online course - Bringing Easter Texts 
to Life - between Feb. 22 and March 26, 1999.  It will be led by Dr. Donald 
Juel, the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Theology. 
 
    Continuing education program coordinator David H. Wall is excited about 
the opportunity that the Internet provides for continuing education online 
for pastors and lay people who may not be able to travel to the Seminary 
campus.   "Technology now allows church leaders around the world to tap 
into Princeton's resources, particularly its faculty," he said.  "And to do 
so at little or no cost.  This brings new meaning to the biblical text from 
Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus tells the disciples to Go into all the 
world and make disciples.'" 

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