http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats.html

 

The Transformation of the Church

~ A Database of Historical and Current Data on the Strategic Partnerships &

Interlocking Directorates of Organizations in the Global Ecumenical Movement

 

The World Evangelical Fellowship:

Commission on Theological Education &

The Association of Theological Schools/ATS

 

Editor’s Note: The World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF’s role in theological education is comprehensive and global; encompassing the planning and development for all theological curriculum and leadership development. WEF’s name has been changed [2001] to World Evangelical Alliance.

 

The Association of Theological Schools/ATS serves as the accrediting agency for most post graduate theological study and for most of the seminaries in the U.S. and Canada.  ATS plays a pivotal role in the transformation of the church.  Consider the fact that ATS accredited schools train the majority of all U.S. pastors and theological professors. Add to this the questionable and extensive partnerships between ATS accredited institutions and the private foundations; through the largesse of the foundations, which are run by powerful corporations, ATS is virtually under their control. But this coexistence is how it was designed to be.

 

Overview for this section:

World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF

World Evangelical Fellowship’s Commission on Theological Education

–History of WEF’s Commission on Theological Ed., 1973 - 1982

WEF’s ICETE––International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, 1980

WEF's MANIFESTO––Renewal of Evangelical Theological Education, 1990

–US sponsor of WEF’s ICETE:

Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges/ AABC [North America]

 

Association of Theological Schools/ATS

ATS’s Role as an Accrediting Agency, since 1936

Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological Education, 1954

–The Fund’s History

–The Fund’s Trustees

–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded

–Other U.S. Foundations Supporting ATS include:

Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

 

Grants available to ATS members

–Lilly Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants

–Sample Grants–– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program

ATS Faculty’s Grants Directory– 750 funding sources including:

–National Institutes of Health––National Human Genome Research Institute

–National Human Genome Research Institute's––Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI Research Program

Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:

The Association of Theological Schools: Intersection of Religion, Science and Cloning 

Grants offered/available to ATS members include:

–Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies

–Carnegie Corporation of New York

–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

–Templeton Prize

–Human Genome Research Institute

Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies, Jerusalem

Tantur is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue center for “Christian unity”

Pew Charitable Trust Grant to ATS for Incarnating Globalization–

incorporated into all ATS-member’s curriculum

ATS Executive Committee

ATS Leadership Education under directorship of:

Fuller Theological Seminary's Richard Mouw––

The Public Character of Theological Education Project

ATS Membership – a merger of Protestant /Catholic doctrines/theologies

ATS Denominational Listing

ATS Alphabetical Listing

Orgs with ATS Affiliate Status––includes:

–Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations  

Institute of Buddhist Studies

Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences


WEF/World Evangelical Fellowship’s

Commission on Theological Education

< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3commsn.htm

 

Editor’s Note: WEF’s name was changed in 2001 to World Evangelical Alliance/WEA

History of WEF’s Theological Commission

 

1973 - WEF authorized the development of three commissions: 

Theology, Mission and Communications.*

Note: The WEF Communications Commission was placed under the auspices of Ben Armstrong,

Exec. Secretary of the National Religious Broadcasters.

 

1975 - First meeting of the WEF Theological Commission in London

 

1980 - “The Theology of Development” - Hoddesdon, England 

Results of meeting were published by Ronald Sider:

Evangelicals and Development: Towards a Theology of Social Change

 

1982 - WEF Theological Commission pilots a curriculum for Th. M. degree

source: The Dream That Would Not Die: The birth and growth of the World Evangelical Fellowship 1846-1986, David M. Howard, The Paternoster Press, 1986.


WEF’s ICETE/ International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, 1980 

< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete.htm

 

ICETE's history is rooted in the emergence of networks of evangelical theological schools in the third world during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From among these new associations came a call in 1978 for some means by which they might be in regular contact and collaboration at the international level. The WEF Theological Commission agreed to sponsor the project, and ICETE was formed in March, 1980, at meetings in Hoddlesdon, England. In the years since its founding ICETE has become an established international forum for dialogue and cooperation among evangelical theological educators. ICETE has also taken a leading role in fostering renewal and excellence in evangelical theological education worldwide. And ICETE has sought to ensure that the interests and concerns of theological education are effectively voiced within the larger venues of evangelical cooperation globally. ICETE's membership now covers all major regions of the world…” emphasis added

 

“ICETE is a global community, sponsored by seven continental networks of theological schools, to encourage international interaction and collaboration among all those concerned for the enhancement of evangelical theological education worldwide.”

           

PURPOSES edited

Enhancement of evangelical theological education worldwide:

• networking… [and collaboration] … for regional accrediting bodies

development worldwide of programmes…that embrace in one integrated whole the spiritual, behavioural, practical and

academic formation of Christian leadership

development worldwide of programmes [one template] of evangelical theological education…

 

ICETE's earlier General Directors: <http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete_history.htm

 

Dr. Paul Bowers (1980-82), Dr. Robert Youngblood (1983-88), and Dr. Roger Kemp (1989-97).

The current General Director is Dr. Dieumeme Nöelliste of Jamaica.

 

Youngblood is a professor at Bethel Theological Seminary––ATS member. See below.


WEF's MANIFESTO on the

RENEWAL of EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, 1990

< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete_manifesto.htm

 

 1.        Contextualization

 2.        Churchward orientation

 3.        Strategic flexibility

 4.        Theological grounding

 5.        Continuous assessment

 6.        Community life

 7.        Integrated programme

 8.        Servant moulding

 9.        Instructional variety

10.       A Christian mind

11.       Equipping for growth

12.       Cooperation


US sponsor of WEF’s ICETE/Theological Council:

 

AABC/Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges North America

< http://www.gospelcom.net/aabc/

 

AABC accredits Bible colleges at the pre-graduate level.

 

Listing of AABC Accredited Colleges 

< http://www.gospelcom.net/aabc/members.htm

 

Editor’s Note: The Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges (WEF's ICETE-U.S. sponsor) has as its “sister organization” the Association of Theological Schools/ATS.

 

ATS serves as the accrediting agency for most post graduate theological study and most of the seminaries in the U.S. -- ATS plays a pivotal role in the Transformation of the Church. Consider the fact that ATS accredited schools train the majority of all U.S. pastors and theological professors. After reading about ATS, below, it is hoped that the reader will understand how all Christians are strongly influenced by what is happening in the “schools of divinity.” 


Association of Theological Schools [ATS]

 

This section includes…

ATS’s Role as an Accrediting Agency, since 1936

Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological Education, 1954

–The Fund’s History

–The Fund’s Trustees

–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded

–Other U.S. Foundations Supporting ATS include:

Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

William Randolph Hearst Foundation


Association of Theological Schools/ATS's Role as an Accrediting Agency, since 1936

< http://www.ats.edu/accredit/abtacc.htm

 

“The Association of Theological Schools has functioned as an accrediting agency since 1936. ATS member schools conduct post-baccalaureate degree programs designed to prepare persons for a wide variety of positions of ministerial leadership and teaching and research in the theological disciplines…The Association of Theological Schools, through its Commission on Accrediting, is recognized by the United States Secretary of Education for the accreditation and pre-accreditation of freestanding theological schools…”

 

Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological Education, 1954 

< http://www.thefund.org/

 

 

“At the present time there is no important foundation in this country that is not controlled, usually directly but sometimes indirectly, by the Rockefellers or their agents, to be converted to the propaganda, conspiracies and other uses of the Rockefeller Empire.”  

~ Emanuel Josephson, Rockefeller "Internationalist", NY: Chedney Press, 1952, p. 91.

 

 

 

The Fund for Theological Education – History

< http://www.thefund.org/about/history/index.html

 

“The Fund for Theological Education was established in the early 1950s as a response to a perceived crisis in Protestant theological education. At that time, a group of influential seminary educators, clergy, and interested lay persons had become convinced that the quality of those entering the ministry had declined and that many of the best and brightest students were choosing professional careers outside the ministry. In order to encourage talented college graduates to consider the ministry, an unprecedented initiative was launched in 1954 to attract promising but otherwise undecided candidates to seminary education. Begun in close affiliation with the American Association of Theological Schools , the Fund for Theological Education grew both in scope and size over the next forty years and became a leading force in support of excellence in theological study …  

“A new kind of scholarship program for theological education was envisioned in 1953 by two nationally known educators, Nathan Pusey, President of Harvard University, and Henry Pitney Van Dusen, President of Union Theological Seminary, New York…Pusey and Van Dusen were not alone, and they were able to convince the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to support a new initiative that would enable highly qualified college graduates considering but undecided on a ministerial career to enroll in an exploratory year of theological studies. In 1954 an eminent board of directors was established under Pusey's leadership in close cooperation with the American Association of Theological Schools to guide the new program…”

 

The Fund Trustees  < http://www.thefund.org/about/boardandstaff/index.html

Editor’s Note: Membership reflects associations with other organizations including: Ford Foundation, Board of ATS/Association of Theological Schools, University of Chicago [Rockefeller-influenced], Candler School of Theology/Emory University, Interdenominational Theological Center [Atlanta, GA], etc.


Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded 

< http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/rbfgrants.html

~ edited – see web site for extensive listing

American Bar Association Fund for Public Education, 1967-1976

American Council on NATO, 1959-1962

American Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1969

American Society of International Law, The, 1971-1976

Asia Foundation, The, 1959-1976

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1950-1983

Association for the Study of Abortion, Inc., 1966-1976

Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada, 1964-1987

Boy Scouts of America - National Council, 1958-1976

Brookings Institution, 1953-1969, 1977

Carnegie Corporation of New York - General, 1954-1976

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1974-1979

Club of Rome, 1973-1976

Columbia University - Teachers College, 1954-1969

Commission on Private Philanthropy & Public Needs

Educational Testing Service, 1953-1980

Foreign Policy Association, 1947-1982

Fund for Theological Education, Inc., 1952-1956, 1970-1982

Fund for Theological Education, Inc. - Handbook, 1968-1969

Fund for Theological Education, Inc. - Rockefeller Doctoral Fellowships in Religion Program, 1973-1976

 

Other U.S. Foundations Supporting ATS

http://www.thefund.org/about/foundations/index.html

include:

• Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Lilly Endowment, Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family…through gifts of stock in the  pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly Endowment exists to support the causes of religion, education and community development. Lilly Endowment awarded FTE $3 million for a series of initiatives to attract candidates of quality to the practice of ministry and theological scholarship.

• The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. was established in 1936 by the late Henry R. Luce, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time, Inc…

In 1998, the Luce Foundation awarded FTE a four-year grant of $700,000 to support its new programs designed to promote excellence and diversity in theological education and ministerial formation.

Henry Luce III is on the Princeton Theological Seminary board of trustees emeritus with John M. Templeton, Jr. president of the John Templeton Foundation.

The Luce Center in Atlanta, GA serves as the center for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological education/The Fund/FTE.

• Local Atlanta Foundation

• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

• The Booth Ferris Foundation

• The William Randolph Hearst Foundations

The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1945 by publisher and philanthropist William Randolph Hearst;…

In 1993, the Foundations established a scholarship fund at FTE to promote diversity in theological education

• The General Mills Foundation


Association of Theological Schools/ATS

 

This section includes… 

Grants available to ATS members

–Lilly Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants

–Sample Grants–– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program

 

ATS Faculty’s Grants Directory– 750 funding sources including:

–National Institutes of Health––National Human Genome Research Institute

–National Human Genome Research Institute's––Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI Research Program

 

Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:

The Association of Theological Schools: Intersection of Religion, Science and Cloning 

< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-eugenics.html

 

Other Grants offered/available to ATS members include:

–Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies

–Carnegie Corporation of New York

–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

–Templeton Prize

–Human Genome Research Institute

Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies

Tantur is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue center for “Christian unity”

 

Pew Charitable Trust Grant to ATS for Incarnating Globalization––

incorporated into all ATS-member’s curriculum


ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS

 

Grants available to ATS members

Found on the Association of Theological Schools/ATS website: 

Lilly Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants

< http://www.ats.edu/leader/grants/granttoc.htm

(Henry Luce, the son of missionaries, founder of Time magazine.)

Sample Lilly Grants –– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program  

< http://www.ats.edu/leader/grants/samples.htm

 

ATS Faculty Grants Directory––750 funding sources

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/fgdirtoc.htm

The online Faculty Grants Directory provides information on over 750 funding sources for scholarship and research for those teaching theology or religion in graduate institutions, and for administrators and project leaders seeking funding for institutional or collaborative projects.

 

Listing of ATS Sponsors and Grants

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/allgrnts.htm

ATS Faculty Grants also support “projects designed to address a range of ethical, social, and legal issues” related to the Human Genome Project:

 

Ÿ        National Institutes of Health

National Human Genome Research Institute

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/N0000275.HTM

 

Ÿ        National Human Genome Research Institute's

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI Research Program

< http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/

 

Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:

The Association of Theological Schools: Intersection of Religion, Science and Cloning  

< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-eugenics.html

 

Other Grants offered/available to ATS members 

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/allgrnts.htm

include:

partial list

Ÿ       The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies

Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report––

Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies: Origin of Character Education Coalitions

< http://watch.pair.com/charter2.html#aspen

Ÿ       The Bradley Foundation, Inc.

Ÿ       Carnegie Corporation of New York

Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report:  

THE INQUIRY, THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR) & THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (CEIP)

< http://watch.pair.com/inquiry.html

Ÿ       Earhart Foundation

Ÿ       Ford Foundation

Ÿ       Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

“The Foundation is interested in family planning and reproductive health efforts in the developing world.”

Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report: Charter Schools, Character Education & the Eugenics Establishment––Behind the Conservative Curtain: Pseudo Grassroots Organizations Front for Corporate / Government Takeover  < http://watch.pair.com/charter3.html#gates

Ÿ       Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Ÿ       National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute 

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/N0000275.HTM

Ÿ       National Human Genome Research Institute’s

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program

< http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/

Ÿ       Pew Charitable Trusts

Ÿ       Rockefeller Foundation

Ÿ       Stewardship Foundation [Weyerhaeuser]

Ÿ       United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies

Ÿ       Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies, Jerusalem

< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/T0000240.HTM


Tantur's History & Aims < http://www.come.to/tantur

Editor’s Note: Tantur is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue center for “Christian unity.”

“In October 1963 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers at the Second Vatican Council shared with Pope Paul VI the dream of an international ecumenical institute for theological research and pastoral studies...

* We assist the search for Christian unity and interchurch harmony among diverse Christian communions. We seek a broader and deeper understanding of each other's faith and traditions, ethics and social witness, liturgies and pieties.

* We explore the relationships between Christians and peoples of other world faiths, especially Jews and Muslims...”


Ÿ      Templeton Prize < http://www.templetonprize.org/

Grant Description: “The Templeton Award is not for good works. It is an award for progress in religion. The award is intended to encourage the concept that resources and manpower are needed for progress in spiritual knowledge and to help people see the infinity of the Universal Spirit. The Templeton Prize, in the amount of £600,000, is awarded annually to a living person of any religious tradition or movement. There is no limitation of race, creed, sex, or geographical background. Nominations are sought from all major religions of the world.” ~ emphasis added

See TOC database, Control over Christian Educational Institutions, Templeton Foundation


Pew Charitable Trusts Grant to ATS for

Incarnating Globalization

 

Following was found 3/11/00 – no longer available:

< http://www.ats.edu/programs/global/global.htm

 

Globalization in theological education has been a decade-long emphasis of ATS and appears as a consistent theme throughout the accrediting standards adopted in 1996. ATS is currently engaged in a three-year project entitled “Incarnating Globalization: A Strategy for Implementing Global Perspectives in Theological Education. The project focuses on two major areas: (1) accreditation and globalization in theological education and (2) cross-cultural relationships of theological institutions. The first track addresses the cross-cutting globalization theme in the new ATS standards of accreditation…. The information learned from this report will be reported in an essay on globalization to be added to the new ATS Handbook of Accreditation.”

 

ATS Grant from Pew Charitable Trusts for Globalization

Found at: Pew Charitable Trusts <http://www.pewtrusts.org/index.cfm

The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada

06/13/1996 - Pittsburgh, PA

“For a project designed to facilitate the incorporation of global perspectives in theological education. $412,000 / 3 yrs.”

 

Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC report:

The Association of Theological Schools and City Transformation 

< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-scupe.html


ATS Executive Committee  ~ not posted on ATS web site ~

< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-exec.html

         

ATS Leadership Education   < http://www.ats.edu/develop/abtdte.htm

ATS Leadership Director is Fuller Theological Seminary's President Richard Mouw

The Public Character of Theological Education Project Includes:

The Character and Assessment of Learning for Religious Vocation.

The Public Character of Theological Education Project.

 

Editor’s Note: Mouw is a Consulting Editor for Christianity Today

 


 

ATS MEMBERSHIP – merger of Protestant and Catholic doctrines/theologies

 

Daniel O. Aleshire, ATS Executive Director:

< http://www.intrust.org/magazine/autumn98/autumn98.htm

 

“I like doing the work that I do because ATS gives me a chance to be a part of the wide variety of expressions of Christianity in North America in the context of those expressions.  I get to see Methodists and Methodist chapel, and Roman Catholics and Roman Catholic liturgy, and Anglicans, and Episcopalians in that context…” emphasis added

                       

Editor’s Note: 50+ ATS members represent Roman Catholic universities.

Also represented are Quaker, Unitarian Universalist, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, Seventh-Day Adventist and Swedenborgian institutions.

 

ATS Denominational listing  < http://www.ats.edu/members/lists/denom.htm

ATS Members –– Alphabetical Listing < http://www.ats.edu/members/lists/alpha.htm

 

~ partial list

 

Ÿ       Anderson University School of Theology Church of God (Anderson, IN)

 

Ÿ       Assemblies of God Theological Seminary

 

Ÿ      Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) of Trinity Western University < http://www.acts.twu.ca/

––A consortium of five seminaries:

Canadian Baptist Seminary

Canadian Theological Seminary

Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary

Northwest Baptist Seminary

Trinity Western Seminary/TWS––The Graduate School of Theological Studies

 

Editor’s Note: Dr. Martin Abegg and Dr. Peter Flint are both TWS Adjunct Professors. Flint is Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scroll Institute located at TWU, Canada. Abegg and Flint, with Dr. Eugene Ulrich are the editors of the Dead Sea Scroll Bible: the Oldest Known Bible Translated for the first time into English–– “translates all the Biblical texts from Qumram and this texts [sic] are a 1000 years older than those used in most English translations of the Bible.” During a recent seminar [April 2001] at the Messianic congregation Beit Hallel [Tacoma, WA] Flint described the discovery of the Dead Sea Scroll as “The discovery of the Century.”

 

Ÿ      Association of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS) < http://campus.northpark.edu/acts/

ACTS [Based at North Park Theological Seminary] 11 Member Schools:

–Catholic Theological Union

Chicago Theological Seminary [faculty member Robert Moore see below] 

-Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 

–McCormick Theological Seminary 

–Meadville/Lombard Theological School 

Mundelein Seminary 

–Northern Baptist Theological Seminary 

Seabury-Western Theological Seminary 

–Trinity Evangelical Divinity School/TEDS [see below] 

North Park Theological Seminary [EMNR’s Eric Pement see below] 

 

Lilly Endowment, Inc. < http://www.thefund.org/about/foundations/index.html

Recently Lilly Endowment awarded an additional $2.2 million to coordinate, monitor, evaluate and otherwise assist two clusters of North American theological schools [see ACTS, above] that have received Lilly Endowment support to carry out programs aimed at strengthening congregational ministry. 

 

Editor’s Note: Eric Pement of Lausanne’s EMNR/Evangelical Ministries to New Religions hosts/hosted the North Park Theological Seminary’s LINKS page and he serves as the North Park webmaster for ACTS. EMNR will be covered on the Transformation of the Church/TOC database.

 

Ÿ       Beeson Divinity School, Samford University

BDS’srelated sites” includes:

The Global Center < http://www.samford.edu/groups/global/index.html

 

Editor’s Note: Bill O’Brien of the Global Center, Samford University serves on the USCWM/ U.S. Center for World Mission [Ralph Winter] Int’l Journal of Frontier Missions/ IJFM Editorial Committee [See EMNR & Missiology—a future TOC report.]

 

Beeson’s Founder Timothy George

~ Christianity Today, executive editor with J.I. Packer [Regent College]

<  http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html

~ He has been active in the evangelical dialog with the Roman Catholic Church…”

 

Others on the Beeson faculty include:

Gerald L. Bray

~ ordained minister in the Church of England.

 

Lewis A. Drummond

~ regularly speaks at crusades and conferences sponsored by the Billy Graham Association

 

Beeson Adjunct Faculty includes:

James M. Houston

~ M.A., University of Edinburgh; M.A., B.Sc., D.Phil., Oxford University.

~ Former Principal, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

Interdenominational Spirit < http://www.samford.edu/schools/divinity/spirit.html

Currently, the student body at Beeson is represented by some thirty different denominations. Our faculty is also interdenominational. Beeson has five endowed chairs: (1) The Anglican Chair of Divinity, (2) The Methodist Chair of Divinity, (3) The Presbyterian Chair of Divinity, and two other non-Baptist chairs. The divinity school is therefore in the unique position of being an interdenominational and an evangelical school within a Baptist university.

 

BEESON CONFERENCE TO EXPLORE AMERICAN EVANGELICAL IDENTITY < www.samford.edu/News/identity.html

Samford University's Beeson Divinity School will present a conference on American Evangelical identity Oct. 2 and 3.

 

"Pilgrims on the Sawdust Trail: Evangelical Conversations" will bring together scholars and church leaders to examine recent discussions and new initiatives among Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics.

 

Speakers include Timothy George, dean, Beeson Divinity School; Richard Mouw, president, Fuller Theological Seminary; Richard John Neuhaus, president, religion and public life; and Thomas Oden, professor, Drew University Theological School.

 

Editor’s Note: See Regent College, below, for more info. about Houston, co-founder of Regent College

 

Ÿ       Bethel Theological Seminary

 

BTS faculty includes:

Ronald Youngblood

~ BTS Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew

~ ICETE Director (1983-88) [see WEF’s ICETE/ International Council for Evangelical Theological Education] 

< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete_history.htm

~ International Bible Society, Chair of the Board (IBS publishes the New International Version/NIV)

 

Ÿ       Calvin Theological Seminary < http://www.calvinseminary.edu/

 

Following found on the related-Calvin College web site:

Calvin College’s Seminars in Christian Scholarship < www.calvin.edu/fss/factsht.htm

The seminar program was originally funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1995 for five years… Building on the Pew funds, additional seminars have been held with grants from Calvin College, the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts, the John Templeton Foundation, Fieldstead & Company, and the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities.

 

Ÿ       Campbell University Divinity School  < http://www.campbell.edu/divinity/

 

Ÿ       Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Candler’s Youth Theological Initiative

<  http://www.emory.edu/CANDLER/yti/history.html

“The Youth Theological Initiative (formerly known as Youth Theology Institute) began as a dream of Dr. Craig Dykstra of the Lilly Endowment many years ago.” [Candler sponsors Youth Summer Academies.]

 

James Waite, president of the Rockefeller Fund for Theological Education was the dean of Chandler for fourteen years:

< http://www.thefund.org/about/boardandstaff/index.html

In 1991 he was appointed Executive Director of the Association of Theological Schools, where he created a variety of new initiatives, with particular focus on racial/ethnic minority students, the relationship between technology and theological education, and faculty support programs. Prior to his work with ATS, Waits served for fourteen years as Dean of the Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. During his time at Candler, he also served as the first Director of the Carter Center [in partnership with Emory University] and held a faculty appointment as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Divinity. He currently serves as a trustee of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton and is a former member of the visiting committee of the Harvard University Divinity School. In 1999 he was awarded the distinguished service award by the Yale Divinity School for his contributions to theological education… He also is a member of the board of In Trust, a publication for trustees and administrators of theological schools in North America, and of the Advisory Board of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.

 

Ÿ      Chicago Theological Seminary/CTS < http://www.chgosem.edu/

 

CTS’s Center for Community Transformation < http://www.chgosem.edu/affiliations.html

In 1998, Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded CTS a grant of $1.5 million to fund a bold and experimental approach to theological education… the center's mission is to discover new ways to prepare transformative leaders for transformative communities.

 

At the core of this five-year research project is the conviction that there can and must be a much deeper partnership between theological education and communities of transformation which are already working successfully to bring about greater justice and mercy, healing, health, and vitality.

 

CTS Faculty includes:

Robert Moore < http://www.chgosem.edu/faculty.html

[Moore is a collaborator with Gordon Melton on the International Religions Directory Project.

< http://www.americanreligion.org/irdp/index.html

Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality… M.A., University of Chicago, 1970; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975. Diplomate, Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, 1983; Analyst, C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, 1987.

 

Dr. Moore is a senior professor in the Center for Theology, Ethics, and the Human Sciences, an interdisciplinary institute for advanced study in the philosophical, theological, and ethical implications of the various human sciences. [Probably funded by the Templeton Foundation.] For over a decade Professor Moore was the Chair of the Religion and Social Sciences Section of the American Academy of Religion < http://www.thefund.org/ [Located at the Luce Center, Atlanta, Georgia; site of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for Theological Education/The Fund/FTE.]

 He also serves as President of the Institute for World Spirituality, an organization working toward the creation of interfaith cooperation for the human future.

 

Dr. Moore's work on structural psychoanalysis, decoding the deep structures of the human self, has led to his receiving international recognition as a major psychoanalytic theorist. In addition to his practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, he teaches and has served as a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He lectures widely in the United States and abroad on topics relating to psychoanalysis, social ethics, and human spirituality. He serves widely as a consultant in leadership and organizational development to business and government.

 

Author and editor of numerous books in the field of psychology and spirituality, he is the Series Editor of the Paulist Press series on Jungian Psychology and World Spiritual Traditions, an interdisciplinary series relating psychoanalytic insight to the major traditions of human spirituality. A comprehensive list of his audiotaped lectures and books on psychology and spirituality is available through the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Moore is perhaps most widely known for his work on ritual leadership and the masculine psyche. His five volume series on masculine psychology and spirituality (co-authored with mythologist Douglas Gillette) is the most influential theory of masculinity in today's international discussion. The structural psychoanalysis outlined in these books has put him at the forefront of theory in masculine psychology, masculine spirituality, and masculine initiation. These volumes, include King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine; The King Within; The Warrior Within; The Magician Within; and The Lover Within.

 

Ÿ       Church of God Theological Seminary   (Cleveland, TN)

 

Ÿ        Claremont School of Theology/ CST < http://www.cst.edu/

CST’s Youth Discipleship Project < http://www.cst.edu/YDP98/ydphome.htm

Summer Youth Discipleship Community ––“All costs are paid for by a grant from the Lilly Endowment.”

 

Ÿ       Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions of Columbia International University

Guest Faculty

Phill Butler, B.S., has served as president and international director of Interdev since 1974. Formerly, he was president of Intercristo and director for an annual Cambridge communications course in Cambridge, England. Butler received his training at Bob Jones University.

John Maust, M.A., is president of Media Associates International. He has served as …assistant news editor of Christianity Today, a missionary with Latin American Mission

Jim Stamoolis, D.Th., serves as the executive director of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). Formerly, he was president of Management Consultant Associates, Inc., graduate dean of Wheaton College Graduate School, and a missionary to South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). TEAM is an associate member of the World Evangelical Alliance < http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3associates.htm . Stamoolis holds [a degree from]… Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

 

Ÿ        Covenant Theological Seminary  < http://www.covenantseminary.edu/yimi/default.asp

Youth in Ministry Institute < http://www.covenantseminary.edu/yimi/default.asp

“The Youth in Ministry Institute (YIMI) is a new program of Covenant Theological Seminary, the seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America.  And we are seriously funded by the Lilly Endowment, a generous group.”

 

Ÿ       Dallas Theological Seminary

DTS Center for Christian Leadership

< http://www.dts.edu/engine.cfm?a=38&b=99&i=99

Howard Hendricks

Chair, Center for Christian Leadership

 

Bibliotheca Sacra < http://www.dts.edu/engine.cfm?a=45&i=45

Bringing the light of God's Word to believers for over 150 years.

The oldest theological quarterly in the Western Hemisphere, Bibliotheca Sacra has long been recognized as an excellent source of evangelical scholarship.

[Bibliotheca Sacra’s articles are ] written by respected scholars such as F. F. Bruce, D. A. Carson, Millard J. Erickson, D. Edmond Hiebert, H. Wayne House [Christian Research Institute], Alister E. McGrath [Wycliffe Hall, Oxford], Bruce M. Metzger, J. Dwight Pentecost, Robert L. Saucy, John R. W. Stott [strategist for the World Evangelical Fellowship; Int’l Fellowship of Evangelical Students/IFES], John F. Walvoord [Personal Freedom outreach/PFO board of reference with Norman Geisler; PFO is member of EMNR], and many more, Bibliotheca Sacra stands as an invaluable resource for serious Bible students.

 

CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP < http://www.dts.edu/engine.cfm?a=38&b=99&i=99

CCL chairman Howard Hendricks

Leadership Evaluation and Development (LEAD), an intense, personalized one-week assessment experience which helps ministry and business leaders accelerate their leadership development

Spiritual Formation is designed to help Christians recognize and cooperate with God's formation work in their lives and to train selected students in the leadership roles critical to developing others.

 

Ÿ       Denver Seminary

Vernon Grounds, Denver Seminary Chancellor

~ Co-founder of Lausanne’s EMNR/ Evangelical Ministries to New Religions which interfaces with the Cult-watching/Discernment Ministries

~Christianity Today, Corresponding Editor

< http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html

 

Leighton Ford [brother-in-law to Billy Graham], was the 1997 Denver Seminary Commencement speaker.

About Leighton Ford:

~ vice-president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association/BGEA where he served for 31 years

~ Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism [1976 –1992] as chairman of this international body of Christian leaders and serves as the Honorary Lifetime Chairman of the

 ~"Transforming Leadership", published by InterVarsity Press – a comprehensive book on leadership

~Serves on the boards of World Vision US and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary [below]

~ Leighton Ford Ministries & Arrow Leadership Program

 

DS Faculty includes;

Gordon R. Lewis

~ co-founder of Lausanne’s EMNR with Vernon Grounds

~ CRI’s  [Hank Hanegraaff] Christian Research Journal––Contributing Editor

Douglas Groothuis

~ CRI’s [Hank Hanegraaff] Christian Research Journal––Contributing Editor

~ author with IVP/InterVarsity Press

Editor’s Note: Constance Cumbey believes that Groothuis’ book Unmasking the New Age, published by IVP, was published to counter the acclaim that she was receiving for her exposé of the New Age Movement. Groothuis has been a board member of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project and a long time Contributing editor to the CRI Journal [Hank Hanegraaff]. Hanegraaff has also served on the SCP board.  See Christian Research Institute and Spiritual Counterfeits Project reports in the TOC database.

 

Craig L. Blomberg

~ a professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary

~ Listed previously as a CRI [Hank Hanegraaff] EQUIP University professor

~ Co-author of How Wide The Divide?: A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation, with Stephen E. Robinson [Mormon and faculty Brigham Young University/BYU] InterVarsity Press, 1997 is an initial dialogue between LDS and Evangelical academics seeking first to find common ground, and second to delineate differences between two religious traditions. Dr. Blomberg is a professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary; Dr. Robinson is professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

How Wide the Divide? web site < http://www.lds-mormon.com/hwtd.shtml  <<Warning––Mormon web site

 

How Wide the Divide? back cover: "Mormons and Evangelicals don’t often get along very well. They often set about trying to convert one another, considering the faith the other holds as defective in some critical way. Unfortunately, much of what they say about one another simply isn’t true. False stereotypes on both sides prevent genuine communication."

 

Editor’s Note: This same openness to non-Christian religions is being extended to Catholics, Mormons, Muslims and Buddhists in the World Congress on Families which has met for a conference at the Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. Harold O.J. Brown, a longtime Contributing Editor to Christian Research Institute/CRI’s Journal [Hank Hanegraaff], is a representativ