~ A Database of Historical and
Current Data on the Strategic Partnerships &
The World Evangelical Fellowship:
Commission on Theological Education &
The Association of Theological Schools/ATS
Editor’s Note: The
role or the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF in theological education is comprehensive and
global; encompassing the planning and development for all theological curriculum
and leadership development. WEF’s
name was changed [2001] to
World
Evangelical
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
World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF
–History of WEF’s Commission on Theological
Ed., 1973 - 1982
–WEF’s ICETE––International Council for
Evangelical Theological Education, 1980
–US sponsor of WEF’s ICETE:
Accrediting
Association of
Rockefeller
Brothers Fundfor Theological Education, 1954
–The Fund’s History
–The Fund’s Trustees
–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded
Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Henry Luce
Foundation, Inc.
William
Randolph Hearst Foundation
–Lilly
Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants
–Sample Grants–– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program
–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
–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
–Templeton Prize
–Human Genome Research Institute
–Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological
Studies,
Tantur is
the
Fuller Theological Seminary's Richard Mouw––
The Public Character of Theological Education Project
ATS Membership – a merger of Protestant /Catholic doctrines/theologies
ATS Alphabetical Listing
Orgs with
ATS Affiliate Status––includes:
–Unitarian Universalist Association of
Congregations
–
–
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
“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
“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
Youngblood is a professor at Bethel Theological Seminary––ATS member. See below.
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
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
Rockefeller
Brothers Fundfor Theological Education, 1954
–The Fund’s History
–The Fund’s Trustees
–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded
Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Henry
Luce Foundation, Inc.
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Association
of Theological Schools/ATS's Role as an Accrediting
Agency, since 1936
“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 Fundfor
Theological Education, 1954
“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
FundTrustees
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
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives,
1941-1989––grants awarded
~ 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
Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, 1950-1983
Association for the Study of
Abortion, Inc., 1966-1976
Association of Theological
Schools in the
Boy Scouts of
Brookings Institution,
1953-1969, 1977
Carnegie Corporation of
Club of
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
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
• Local
• The Arthur Vining
• 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…
–Lilly Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants
–Sample
Grants––
Selected Proposals
to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program
–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
–Carnegie Corporation of
–Templeton Prize
Tantur is the
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/LeadershipEducation/Pages/GrantsPrograms.aspx
(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/LeadershipEducation/documents/grants/Tupper-SeekingFunding.pdf
ATS
Faculty Grants Directory––750
funding sources
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.
ATS
Faculty Grants also support “projects designed to address a range of ethical,
social, and legal issues” related to the
Human Genome Project:
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
http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-eugenics.html
Other Grants
offered/available to ATS members
include:
partial list
The
Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report––
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies: Origin of Character Education Coalitions
The Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Carnegie Corporation of
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
Earhart Foundation
Ford Foundation
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:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Institutes of Health National Human Genome
Research Institute
http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/N0000275.HTM
National Human Genome Research
Institute’s
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/
Pew Charitable Trusts
Rockefeller Foundation
Stewardship Foundation [Weyerhaeuser]
United
Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies,
Tantur's History & Aims http://tantur.org/about-us/history-aims/
Editor’s Note: Tantur is the
“In
October 1963 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers at the Second
* 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...”
Templeton Prize http://www.templetonprize.org/nomination.html
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
“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
“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:
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
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
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary
Associated
Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) of
––A consortium of five
seminaries:
Canadian Baptist Seminary
Canadian Theological Seminary
Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
Northwest Baptist Seminary
Trinity
Western Seminary/TWS––The
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,
Association
of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS)
http://campus.northpark.edu/acts/
ACTS
[Based at
–Catholic
Theological
–
-Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary
–
–McCormick
Theological Seminary
–Meadville/Lombard
Theological School
–
–Northern
Baptist Theological Seminary
–Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
–Trinity Evangelical Divinity School/TEDS
[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
BDS’s “related 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 [
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
~
“He has been active in the evangelical dialog with the Roman
Catholic Church…”
Gerald L. Bray
~ ordained minister in the Church of
England.
~ regularly speaks at crusades and
conferences sponsored by the
Billy Graham
Association
Beeson Adjunct Faculty includes:
James M.
Houston
~ M.A.,
~ Former Principal,
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
"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,
Editor’s Note: See Regent College, below, for more info. about Houston, co-founder of
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)
Calvin
Theological Seminary
http://www.calvinseminary.edu/
Following found on the
related-Calvin College web site:
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
Candler
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
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
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
[
… Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality…
M.A.,
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
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.
Church of God Theological Seminary (
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.”
Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions of Columbia International University
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
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
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
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.”
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
[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.
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.
~ 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
WCF is an NGO [non-governmental org] of the United Nations and has ties to the RAND Corp./Hudson Institute/CFR.
CRI’s/Hank Hanegraaff’s EQUIP University
http://www.cst.edu/YDP98/ydphome.htm
Sampling of Free Resources Online Courses includes:
SoulCare 101––Online course in helping others by Dr. Larry Crabb
See Biblical discernment Ministry/BDM’s exposé on Larry Crabb
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/crabb/
Introduction to Public Speaking in Ministry with Dr. Haddon Robinson, senior professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary [below]
Friendship Evangelism by Luis Palau Evangelistic Association/LPEA
See Biblical discernment Ministry/BDM’s exposé on LPEA
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/palau/
Guided Tour of the Bible––New Testament, Old Testament with speaker/author Philip Yancey
Editor’s Note:
Yancey is an Editor at Large for Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
See Biblical discernment Ministry/BDM’s exposé on Philip Yancey
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/yancey/yancey.htm
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
EBTS faculty includes:
Raymond J. Bakke
~Executive Director, International Urban Associates
~Senior Associate for Large Cities with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism.
~co-founder of the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral education (SCUPE)
See Ray Bakke & SCUPE http://toc-ats-scupe.html
Ronald J. Sider
~Evangelicals for Social Action
~Christianity Today, Corresponding Editor
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
Sider is also on faculty at Eastern College; now University; which is in partnership with World Vision.
Templeton Honors College/THC––Eastern College
http://www.eastern.edu:93/academic/trad_undg/honors_college/home.html
THC Advisory Council http://www.eastern.edu:93/academic/trad_undg/honors_college/council.html
Developed the strategies for Lausanne’s Missions and Prayer Mobilization
Fuller President Richard Mouw endorsed:
Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium, 1994
Donald A, McGavran – Perspectives on the World Christian Movement editor
Alpha Course offered by Fuller
Fuller’s Center for Lifelong Learning http://www.fuller.edu/html/cll.html
Fuller faculty: http://www.fuller.edu/provost/faculty/
>School of Theology
>School of World Mission
>School of Psychology
See Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:
Fuller Theological Seminary http://watch.pair.com/toc-fuller.html
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller President
~ Professor of Christian Philosophy, School of Theology
~ Christianity Today, Consulting Editor
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
~ He is a regular columnist on "Beliefnet" Web Magazine. http://www.beliefnet.com/
What is Beliefnet?
Editor’s Note: Exploring the Beliefnet web site it becomes obvious that all world religions are promoted, even the Goddess religion. See Starhawk below.
Following found on Beliefnet.Com:
http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/10/story_1008_1.html&boardID=1430
By Richard Mouw
Evangelicals and Catholics: A New Partnership
We're fighting the culture war with 'an ecumenism of the trenches'
Roman Catholics in the United States have been in the middle of a passionate public debate lately, about the tensions between churchly authority and academic freedom in Catholic higher education. Since I am a seminary president…
I have a vested interest in what goes on in contemporary Catholicism, having devoted considerable energy in recent years to evangelical-Catholic dialogue…
All of this was forever changed for me in the 1960s. The Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII to open the windows of the Roman Catholic Church to the breezes of theological change, has been one of the great spiritual events of my lifetime. In my continuing efforts to be a faithful Christian in a "post-Christian" culture, I have regularly looked to Roman Catholics for companionship—and often, wisdom and inspiration--on the path of discipleship.
Nor am I alone in this. Evangelical theologian Timothy George [see Beeson Divinity School founder above] has pointed to an important new phenomenon that he labels "an ecumenism of the trenches," where evangelicals and Roman Catholics have found common cause on a number of social issues, and are even increasingly finding occasions for praying and studying the Bible together.
Evangelicals and Roman Catholics have exciting new opportunities for dialogue and cooperation. And as we talk and work together, we may actually learn some new things about what it means to serve our Living Lord in a contemporary world in which we can emphasize the strength of our common convictions, even as we continue to engage in friendly arguments about the important things that still divide us.
Editor’s Note: The reader is encouraged to explore Beliefnet.com to believe it!
Beliefnet Interviews Presidential Candidate George W. Bush
In the final weeks of the election, George W. Bush discussed his faith and policies with Editor-in-Chief, Steve Waldman.
http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/47/story_4703_1.html&boardID=7200
~ excerpt…
BELIEFNET: Do you think that all major religions are equally true?
BUSH: I think that we're all God's children, and far be it from me, as a lowly sinner, trying to decide who gets to go to heaven and who doesn't, for example. I mean at one time, in 1994, I said, "My faith says you must accept Christ to go to heaven." And there was a significant backlash because, as typical in politics, the full story wasn't told. And there was a typical backlash amongst, you know, some Jewish people in Texas that basically felt I had said that they can't go to heaven. I worked hard to make it clear to people, far be it from me to tell you I get to decide who goes. I'm working on myself. I'm focused on me.
And so to answer your question, there are great religions in the world, and it's important to recognize that there are great religions in the world. And there are many shared tenets of the great religions. "Love a neighbor like you'd like to be loved yourself." And there are some wonderful callings. I just happen to be a Christian…
BELIEFNET: If you believe that the way to the Kingdom of God for you is Jesus Christ, in a sense don't you have a moral obligation to try to urge other people to follow the same path?
BUSH: Not in my line of work I don't. My line of work is political. My line of work [my job] is to walk the walk, and respect others, and respect their religions. And secondly, I'm not so presumptuous as to play God. There are many great religions in the world. God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and, you know, we'll never know until we get to heaven the ultimate answers to many of the religious questions. But the president of the United States' job is not to try to convert people to religion. The president of the United States' job is to set an example, to make sound decisions, to respect religion, and, if asked, to herald religion. But the key is not to hold out, you know, my religion is better than yours…
Featured Beliefnet Columnists
http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_30000.html
even includes:
Starhawk [a witch]
Beliefnet Columnist http://www.beliefnet.com/author/author_117.html
Starhawk is the author of numerous books, including "The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of The Ancient Religion Of The Great Goddess," "Dreaming The Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics," and "Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery." Her first novel, "The Fifth Sacred Thing" won the Lambda award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction.
She is a major contributor to "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying," and with Anne Hill and Diane Baker, she co-wrote "Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition," In October, 1999, HarperSanFrancisco published the 20th anniversary edition of "The Spiral Dance."
A feminist and peace activist, she is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism, and travels widely in North America and Europe giving lectures and workshops.
She consulted on the films, "Goddess Remembered" and "The Burning Times," directed by Donna Read and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and co-wrote the commentary for "Full Circle," a third film in the same women's spirituality series. Starhawk continues her collaboration with Donna Read, working on an hour-long documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas.
She lives part-time San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, an organization offering classes, intensives, public rituals, and training in the Goddess tradition. She lives the rest of the time in a little hut in the woods where she gardens obsessively. Reclaiming publishes a magazine and maintains a website: www.reclaiming.org that links to Starhawk's own website.
Columns and articles by Starhawk
What Would the Goddess Do? Sep 21, 2001
Here are some suggestions of how to embody the energy of the Goddess in these troubled times.
Grounding as a Daily Practice Jul 31, 2001
Dances with Tear Gas May 29, 2001
Even in the midst of toxic gases and riot cops, magical energy sustains us.
Magical Activism Apr 18, 2001
A soon-to-be-signed multinational pact threatens what we pagans hold sacred. It's time to fight back.
The Eostar Bunny Mar 19, 2001
... and other Pagan heralds of spring.
The Witches of Brazil Feb 21, 2001
In a land where a variety of gods, goddesses, and spirits are taken for granted, Wicca is one more pagan faith for the mix.
Celebrating Brigid Jan 19, 2001
The evolution of a ritual.
How to Make Brigid's Cauldron Jan 19, 2001
What I'll Be Doing This Solstice Dec 18, 2000
Cleansing rage, transforming frustration, and inviting renewal.
Rooting for the Trees Nov 30, 2000
When nature gets sick, appreciation can heal.
Samhain Oct 11, 2000
Honoring the Dead
Finding the Holy Grail Sep 11, 2000
'Sacred places are all around us.'
Praising Evolution Aug 10, 2000
A meditation on breath and life
The Land of the Disabled Jul 9, 2000
In this realm, independence becomes a rare and precious commodity.
Listening to the Land Jun 1, 2000
Ecologically speaking, it's healthy when nature and human beings participate in a mutual admiration society.
Returning to the Fuller Theological Seminary faculty…
Robert J.Clinton
~ Fuller theological Seminary, Professor of Leadership, School of World Mission
~ Visiting professor to Regent University
William A. Dyrness
~Professor of Theology and Culture, School of Theology
~Christianity Today, Corresponding Editor
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
~ CO-AUTHOR, Changing the Mind of Missions with James F. Engel
Engels is at Eastern College––
School of International Leadership and Development/SILD
http://www.eastern.edu/academic/international/sild/COE.html and
Development Associates International/DIA http://www.daintl.org/
James Engel is an Advisory Editor for Christianity Today.
Both SILD and DIA are partners at the Cambridge University, School of Divinity, CARTS CARTS –– Center for the Advancement of Theological Studies
Eastern College has now been renamed Eastern University; EU is in partnership with World Vision
Dr. Jehu Hanciles
See Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:
Cambridge University, School of Divinity ––CARTS & Currents on the World Christian Movement
http://watch.pair.com/toc-current-add.html#cwc
Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.
~Director of the David duPlessis Center for Christian Spirituality and Professor of Church History and Ecumenics
~ associate professor of church history and ecumenics
~ Society for Pentecostal Studies http://www.sps-usa.org/about/presidentsbk.html
past president
~ cochair of the International Roman Catholic-Pentecostal Dialogue,
~ cochair of the local Evangelical-Roman Catholic Dialogue
~ consultant to the Commissions on Faith and Order of the National and World Councils of Churches
See Watch Unto Prayer report:
The Assemblies of God, Roman Catholic Church & World Council of Churches Together http://watch.pair.com/aog.html
Russell Spittler
~Christianity Today, Corresponding Editor
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/features/masthead.html
~ Society for Pentecostal Studies http://www.sps-usa.org/about/presidentsbk.html
past president
~ Latin American Mission/ LAM, Chair of the Board
~ Overseas Crusades, Chairman of the Board [Dick Hillis]
Now OC International www.gospelcom.net/oci/vision.htm
http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-101.htm
OC’s founders were from Youth for Christ [Billy Graham], including Dick Hillis.
In 1979 an evangelical coalition called "Amanecer" was established to promote evangelical growth in Guatemala. The idea of Amanecer came from an evangelical congress, called "Discipleship Around the Whole Nation (DAWN/ James McGavran), held in the Philippines by Overseas Crusades.
~Christ for the City, board member http://www.cfci.org/
~ World Impact, board member
See Transformation of the Church/TOC database report: TOPIC/ Trainers of Pastors International Coalition http://watch.pair.com/gpm-topic.html
TOPIC is an associate member of the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF. http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3associates.htm
Wilbert R. Shenk
~ Paul E. Pierson Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture, School of World Mission
~currently coordinating work on A Missiology for Western Culture with the Pew Charitable Trusts.
J. Dudley Woodberry
~ Professor of Islamic Studies, School of World Mission
See Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:
Fuller Theological Seminary http://watch.pair.com/toc-fuller.html
Other Prominent Christian leaders associated with Fuller Seminary:
Billy Graham–– helped in the founding of Gordon – Conwell Theological Seminary
Bill Bright–– Attended Fuller; attended Princeton Theological Seminary
Harold Ockenga––co-founder of the National Assoc. of Evangelicals/NAE, 1942
Henrieta Meares––Gospel Light Publishing, Forest Home Conference Center [CA] affiliated with Campus Crusade
C. Peter Wagner––faculty FTS/School of World Mission; attended Princeton Theological Seminary
See PTS below; John M. Templeton [son of Sir John Templeton] is a Trustee. Templeton Hall is located at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Ralph Winter––USCWM/ U.S. Center for World Mission
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, editor
Donald McGavran
~ "A Church for Every People by the Year 2000," first coined by McGavran, Bliss & Gill
~ founder of the School of world Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary
www.fuller.edu/swm/abstracts/Welcome.html
This innovative school [Fuller’s School of World Mission] began in 1965 with thirteen students and a vision shared by seminary founder Charles Fuller, President David Allan Hubbard, and Donald A. McGavran, founding dean of the School of World Mission. Dr. McGavran's vision continues to be strongly felt as a driving force of the School. He saw his ministry as a rediscovery of the original focus of the Christian mission which is to communicate the Gospel so that people repent and put their faith in Christ and become his followers in the context of worshiping, nurturing, serving bodies which we call churches. He believed these churches should grow and multiply but that they should not look the same in every culture.
Rick Warren––Saddleback Community Church and author of The Purpose-Driven Church
Jesse Miranda––Haggard School of Theology/Azusa Pacific U.; now with Vangard University
more to be added
Association of Theological Schools – Part 2