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10-November-1999 
99381 
 
    Theological News 
 
    by Alexa Smith 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -Lilly Endowment, Inc., of Indianapolis has given a 
$666,800 grant to the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to 
finance the creation of a Web site linking scholars and religious leaders 
working on Lilly Endowment-funded research projects.  Milton J Coalter, 
library director, is supervising the grant and says that the purpose of the 
Web site is to make Lilly-funded research more accessible.  "Like most Web 
sites, it will be available to the general public," he said.  "Its purpose, 
however, is to attract religious leaders and scholars.  Specifically, the 
Web site will contain a database about grants that have been funded by the 
Endowment.  It will portray an abstract of those grants and list those who 
did the grant project and describe the publications, videos and other media 
that resulted." 
 
RICHMOND, Va. - Dawn DeVries was installed as the John Newton Thomas 
Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary & 
Presbyterian School of Christian Education during the 1999-2000 lecture 
series of  The Institute for Reformed Theology at the school's Watts 
Chapel, Nov. 8.  DeVries' lecture was entitled, "Inspired Heterodoxy?: The 
Freedom of Theological Inquiry and the Well-Being of the Church." 
 
PRINCETON, N.J. - The works of Nena Bryans, a Philadelphia sculptor, are 
inaugurating the new gallery space in Princeton Theological Seminary's 
Erdman Hall Conference Center.  The exhibit runs through Dec. 6.  The 14 
works include sculptures in bonded bronze, cast stone, hydrocal and 
polyster resin, among them "Christ Washing Peter's Feet - after Ford Madox 
Brown " and "The Doubting of St. Thomas - after Caravaggio."  Bryans is a 
Christian educator as well as an artist and is one of the founders of the 
Association Uniting Religion and the Arts in Philadelphia. 
 
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. - The Kresge Foundation has issued a challenge grant of 
$500,000 toward the renovation Montgomery Hall, built in 1897 on the campus 
of San Francisco Theological Seminary.  To receive the grant, the seminary 
must raise an addition $1.5 million to complete the school's current 
capital campaign, "Leading the Way," by Jan. 1, 2001.  The goal of the 
campaign, according to SFTS President Donald McCullough, is $11.5 million. 
So far the seminary has raised cash and pledges of about $10 million. 

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