http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats2.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 – Part 2

 

ATS MEMBERSHIP – merger of Protestant and Catholic theologies

 

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 {continued}

 

Ÿ         Gonzaga University Department of Religious Studies [Roman Catholic]

 

Ÿ         Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

GCTS History < http://www.gordonconwell.edu/about/history.html

The Conwell School of Theology and Gordon Divinity School merged in 1969 through the efforts of philanthropist J. Howard Pew.

Dr. Harold J. Ockenga of Fuller Theological Seminary and Dr. Billy Graham are considered the GCTS founders.

The Ockenga Institute is located at GCTS < http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/index.html

Ockenga was founder of the National Association of Evangelicals/NAE which is a regional body of the World Evangelical Alliance/WEA.

CRI/Christian Research Institute’s founder Walter Martin was a GCTS founding board member.

 

GCTS faculty includes:

Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.

~Consulting Editor Christianity Today

 

Robert E. Coleman

~Billy Graham Center Institute of Evangelism at Wheaton College

~BGEA International Schools of Evangelism, Director

~Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism, founding member

 

Peter Kuzmic

~Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship, Chair, 1986 to 1996

~Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Theology and Strategy Working Group, present Chair

~School of World Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, former Director.

 

GCTS Projects < www.gcts.edu/charlotte/cdel/projects.html

Each ATS-accredited evangelical seminary receiving a grant is invited to a roundtable to present its research paper or progress report on a directed leadership project centering around leadership and theological education.

The theme for the 1998-99 year was "Character in Leadership". Five awards were presented to seminaries successfully submitting papers on this theme. These papers were presented at the second roundtable on September 16-18, 1999. Below are the winning projects which were presented.

 

The theme for the 1999-2000 year is "Competency in Leadership". We have posted the final grantee project reports for the third roundtable as of July 2000 below.

 

Roundtable One

Denver Seminary [Chancellor is Lausannne’s EMNR Vernon Grounds]

Dr. Don Payne, Project Director

Partnering with Churches and Ministries in the Development of Leaders

 

Church of God School of Theology

Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns, Project Director

The Theological Faculty as Leadership Models: Dialogue, Focus and Revision

 

Westminster Theological Seminary in California

Dr. W. Robert Godfrey, President

Institutional Governance, Administrative Leadership, Long-range Planning, and the Role of the President

 

Roundtable Two

Columbia Biblical Seminary

Dr. Ken Mulholland, Dean

The Healthy Personal Life of the Church Leader

Mullholland is the former president of ETS/Evangelical Theological Society which was founded by many members of the Christianity Today staff. ETS works in close association with Lausanne’s EMNR/Evangelical Ministries to New Religions; members of EMNR and ETS are being encouraged to join the other org.

See Toc database, Mission Mobilization, Missiological and Theological Societies

 

Fuller Theological Seminary

Dr. Richard Mouw, President

Faculty Governance as an Aspect of Evangelical Theological Leadership

 

Roundtable Three

Beeson Divinity School

Dr. Timothy George, President

Leadership For A New Millennium

 

Fuller Theological Seminary

Dr. Richard Mouw, President

Competence to Govern: The Role of the Faculty in Seminary Governance

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Graduate Theological Union < http://www.gtu.edu/

 

Located at GTU:

The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences < http://www.ctns.org/

Robert Russell–– CTNS founder and director

Ted Peters ––director of the CTNS-Templeton University Lectures and the CTNS-Templeton Science and Religion Course Program

 

Nancey Murphy––CTNS leadership; faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary; Christianity Today, Corresponding Editor

 

All three are/were on the John Templeton Foundation Advisory Board

< http://www.possibilities-book.org/Templeton%20pdf/2051%20Templeton%20APX3.pdf

 

Ÿ         Haggard Graduate School of Theology of Azusa Pacific University

Pres. Kevin Mannoia

~ President of the Nat’l Association of Evangelical/NAE serves on APU's

Council of Church Leaders. The national NAE office has relocated from Illinois to Glendora, CA, just two miles east of the APU campus.

 

The Worldwide Church of God/WCG was forced to close the doors of the WCG Ambassador College [Pasadena, CA], Azusa Pacific University now shares their facility with the WCG.

 

Jesse Miranda former faculty member:

~ 1992-2000 on faculty of Graduate School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University

~ On Drafting Committee: Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium [1994]  

~ Described as "A consummate crafter of coalitions across ideological, cultural and religious spectrums."

~ Doctorate of Ministry - Fuller Theological Seminary.  

~ Served on boards of organizations such as AD 2000, Fuller Seminary, Mission America, Promise Keepers 

~ 1984-1992  Chairman of the Hispanic Advancement Committee at Fuller Seminary  

~ Supervisor of the Pacific District of the Assemblies of God - 400 churches

 

Ÿ         Harvard University Divinity School

Mark Noll of Wheaton College/ Billy Graham Archive Center was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Divinity School 1999, spring semester.

Noll was contributor––Evangelicals and Catholics Together II: The Gift of Salvation, 1997

 

Ÿ         Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, GA

< http://www.arche.org/institutions/itc.htm

“an ecumenical, graduate professional school of theology…”

 

Ÿ       International School of Theology/ISOT < http://www.leaderu.com/isot/

A ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ

Faculty includes:

Gordon M. Klenck Ph.D. in Inter-cultural Studies, 1987, Fuller Theological Seminary.

Alan Scholes ~Serves on the board of APOLOGIA /AR-Talk [Rich Poll, Paul Carden, Ron Rhodes], an affiliate org of Lausanne’s ENMR/Evangelical Ministries to New Religions < http://www.emnr.org/our_board.html.

Rich and Pamela Poll attended ISOT. Rich Poll was formerly on the EMNR Board of Directors.

 

Ÿ         Immaculate Conception Seminary Seton Hall University [Roman Catholic]   

Seton Hall was founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, the first bishop of Newark, who named it after his aunt, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Mother Seton was a pioneer in Catholic education and the first American-born saint. Seton Hall is the largest and oldest diocesan university in the United States…The Seton Hall School of Diplomacy and International Relations was founded in 1997 in an alliance with the United Nations Association of the United States of America.

http://www.shu.edu/aboutshu.html

 

Ÿ         Knox Theological Seminary [Reformed]

D. James Kennedy [member of the secret Council for National Policy/CNP], founder & chancellor

Faculty includes:

R.C Sproul

Calvin Beisner

–Historical Theology and Social Ethics

~former Contributing Editor to Christian Research Institute’s [Walter Martin/Hank Hanegraaff] CRI JOURNAL

~founding member of the ecumenical Interfaith Council on Environmental

< http://www.stewards.net/About.htm

Berit Kjos is among the ecumenical group that signed this environmental document.

ICE Advisory Committee includes:

Father J. Michael Beers––Pontifical College Josephinum

E. Calvin Beisner––Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

[previously with Christian Research Institute]

Michael Cromartie––Ethics & Public Policy Center

Alexander A. Di Lella–– Catholic University of America

D. James Kennedy­­––Council for National Policy/CNP

Diane Knippers––Institute on Religion and Democracy/IRD

Rabbi Daniel Lapin­­––Toward Traditon [affiliated with the Heritage Foundation]

Dr. Ronald Nash––Acton Institute

Father Richard John Neuhaus––First Things; Ethics and Public Policy Center/EPPC

Dr. Marvin Olasky––World Magazine; World Journalism Institute

Father Robert A. Sirico––Acton Institute

 

Ÿ         Loyola University––“Chicago’s Jesuit University”

 

Ÿ         McMaster Divinity College–– Canada

Clark Pinnock

~Professor of Systematic Theology

~Author––Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit (InterVarsity, 1996).

Editor’s Note: In the early chapters of Flame of Love, Pinnock debated whether to call the Holy Spirit she or he.

 

Ÿ         Multnomah Biblical Seminary

Serves as base for International Renewal Ministries/IRM––Pastor Prayer Summits

<  http://www.multnomah.edu/IRM/about.shtml which interfaces with Interdev/Phil Butler––a leadership initiative of Lausanne’s AD 2000 and the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF

 

Ÿ         Nazarene Theological Seminary

 

Ÿ         North Park Theological Seminary < http://www.northpark.edu/sem/

 

Lausanne’s Evangelical Ministries to New Religions/EMNR’s board member Eric Pement is attending NPTS.

 

affiliations:

http://campus.northpark.edu/acts/

Association of Chicago Theological Schools/ACTS [see above]

SCUPE/ Seminary Consortium on Urban Pastoral Education

See Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ray Bakkee, above

NPTS’s Carl G. Westerdahl Lectureship in Evangelism

< http://www.northpark.edu/sem/academic/westerdahl.html

Speakers have included:

Donald McGavran – 1968

~ Founder of the Church Growth Movement

John Stott – 1977

~ Framer of the Lausanne Covenant

~Int’l Fellowship of Evangelical Students/IFES [UK], director

IFES serves as the umbrella to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship [USA]

Charles Kraft – 1983

~Fuller Theological Seminary

Leighton Ford – 2000:

~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

~ Leighton Ford Ministries & Arrow Leadership Program

 

Ÿ         Oral Roberts University School of Theology

ORU faculty includes:

Brad Young

~Professor of Judaic-Christian Studies, ORU Graduate School of Theology

~Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research/JSSR - founding member

~Gospel Research Foundation, director

Gospel Research Covenant agreement - "…prayer as the key to restoring the Hebrew heritage of Christian faith."

See TOC database: The Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research

 

Ÿ         Pontifical College Josephinum

 

Ÿ         Princeton Theological Seminary < http://www.ptsem.edu/

 

PTS President Thomas Gillespie is on the Board of Advisors of the John Templeton Foundation < www.templeton.org/thelist.asp

 

PTS’s Trustees Emeriti/ae < http://www.ptsem.edu/meet/board-trustees.htm

John M. Templeton –– probably the son of Sir John Templeton; serves as President of the John Templeton Foundation

Henry Luce III

 

TEMPLETON FOUNDATION Trustees & Advisors

Templeton Hall is located on the PTS grounds.

 

PTS’s publication: THEOLOGY TODAY STAFF & EDITORIAL COUNCIL

< http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1984/toc.htm

PTS/s Theology Today EDITORIAL COUNCIL:     

Most of the seminaries listed below are members of the Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools [accrediting agency for seminaries].

Thomas W. Gillespie, Chair see note below

 

Seminaries represented on the PTS’s Theology Today editorial council include:

Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur, Georgia

Craig R. Dykstra, Lilly Endowment, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

Duke Divinity School Durham, North Carolina

Union Theological Seminary New York,