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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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