Note #9085 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:
06043 Feb. 1, 2006
Seminary news
PRINCETON, NJ - Christian scholars will lead a daylong seminar on "Jihad and the Just War Tradition" on Feb. 27 at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. Yasir S. Ibrahim, who teaches there and at Montclair State University and is a specialist in 20th-century Islamic reform movements, will speak. David Wolf Silverman, a rabbi and former chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will present a Jewish perspective. Seminary President Iain R. Torrance, a professor of patristics, will represent the Christian perspective and the just-war theory. The event is open to the public; registration is $50. For more information or to register, contact the Center of Continuing Education by email at coned@ptsem.edu, or call (609) 497-7990, or (800) 622-6767, ext. 7990.
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LOUISVILLE - Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will hold a one-day conference, "Encountering the Holy at Home," on Feb. 11. The event, sponsored by the seminary's Center for Congregations and Family Ministries and the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), will look at home and family as contexts for worshipful lives. For more information, contact Laura March at (800) 264-1839, ext. 382.
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AUSTIN, TX - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary raised $25 million in its recently completed, five-year-long Centennial Campaign. The public portion of the campaign was launched during the seminary's Centennial Celebration in 2002. More than 2,100 of 3,832 contributors were first-time donors.
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DECATUR, GA - Three antebellum slave families who moved from their homes in coastal Georgia to the Atlanta area will be the focus of a lecture at Columbia Theological Seminary on Feb.16. The lecture, by Prof. Erskine Clarke, will be based on his recent book, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.
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AUSTIN, TX - The Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary trustees have established the Donald Capps Award in Pastoral Care with a gift from an anonymous donor. The award honors Prof. Donald Capps, the William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Each year, Austin Seminary's professors of pastoral care will choose a winning student for his or her commitment to the church's caring ministries. The first recipient will be announced in May.
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DECATUR, GA - Three antebellum slave families who moved from their homes in coastal Georgia to the Atlanta area will be the focus of a lecture at Columbia Theological Seminary on Feb.16. The lecture, by Prof. Erskine Clarke, will be based on his recent book, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic.
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LOUISVILLE - The 153rd Spring Convocation Service at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary will include the installation of David C. Hester as dean and vice president for academic affairs. The Feb. 17 service, which will include Communion, will be open to the public. Hester will deliver the convocation address, "A Pedagogy of Redemption," based on Romans 8:18-25 and Micah 4:1-4.
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PRINCETON, NJ - Kristin Saldine, minister of chapel and associate director of the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, has won the 2005 Religious Communication Association Dissertation of the Year Award for her work, "Preaching God Visible: Geo-Rhetoric and the Theological Appropriation of Landscape Imagery in the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards."
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RICHMOND, VA - Jeannette Early of Dallas has given $2.5 million to Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education (Union-PSCE) in Richmond. It's the largest contribution the seminary has received from an individual. The gift will be used to help renovate the former library on campus as a center for teaching, learning and worship. The projected cost of the renovation is $7.6 million; Early's gift raised the total raised so far to more than $5.1 million. The building will be renamed the Allen and Jeannette Early Center for Christian Education and Worship. Early is a 1937 graduate of the Presbyterian School of Christian Education (now Union-PSCE).
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