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05 Jan 2000 20:09:52
5-January-2000
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Theological News
by Alexa Smith
RICHMOND,Va. - "Jesus' Resurrection and Christian Origins" is the subject
of the Sprunt Lectures Series at Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education. The keynote speaker is N.T.
Wright, who is a prolific author and a prominent Christian voice in England
and around the world. Wright has taught New Testament studies at the
University of Oxford and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The
lectures will be under way at the seminary Jan. 24-26.
RICHMOND, Va. - Marcus Borg, a popular writer and the Hundere Distinguished
Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University, will speak on
"Revisioning Christianity at the Millenium" at the Fourth Annual Community
Lecture, co-sponsored by Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School
of Christian Education and St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The two-day event
runs Jan. 14-15, beginning at the church from 7:30-9 p.m. Jan. 14, and
concluding with a day-long workshop at the seminary from 9:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. Jan. 15.
CHICAGO - David V. Esterline has been elected to a five-year term as dean
of faculty and vice president for academic affairs of McCormick Theological
Seminary. Esterline has been a member of McCormick's ministry faculty
since 1997. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and has taught New
Testament at the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in
Cameroon, Nyasoso and Kumba, has lectured in seminaries in Australia, New
Zealand and California, and has served as chair of the Bible Studies
Department at Pacific Theological College in Fiji.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Amy Plantinga Pauw has received a $5,500 grant from the
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to explore
new ways of teaching ecclesiology, most particularly, focusing on the
practices of ordinary Christians and on technological resources available
now to help teach church doctrine. Pauw is the Henry P. Mobley Jr.
Professor of Doctrinal Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological
Seminary.
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