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In Memoriam - Krister Stendahl, 1921-2008. Noted theoloigan, New Testament scholar, and former Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Divinity School, Krister Stendahl died on April 15. He visited GTS at least twice, once to address the College for Bishops in 1996 and also to deliver the Seminary's Paddock Lectures. Here is Dr. Stendahl's lecture, The Bishop as Teacher, delivered in Seabury Auditorium in September of 1996.
An Anglican Covenant: Divisive or Reconciling? convened by General Seminary at the Desmond Tutu Center and sponsored by the seminaries of the Episcopal Church and the seminaries of the Anglican Church of Canada. First Keynote Address: The Case for an Anglican Covenant the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the West Indies. First Panel: The Kenotic Role of Leadership in a Covenanted Relationship, the Very Rev. Joseph Britton, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The Covenant as a Sign of Problems with Authority, the Rev. Dr. Ellen Wondra, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. A Fine Thing, but is it Anglican?, The Rev. Canon Dr. David Neelands, Trinity College, University of Toronto. Whose Covenant? The Anglican Covenant, the People of God and History from Below, Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Church Divinity School of the Pacific.Second Keynote Address: cov-e-nant n 1. a solemn agreement . . . A ‘global south’ perspective on Anglicans, solemnity and agreement, Canon Dr. Jenny Plane Te Paa, St. John’s Theological College, Auckland. Second Panel: St. Andrew’s Covenant: A Conversation in Process, the Rev. Dr. A. Katharine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary. The Proposed Anglican Covenant: Instrument of Oppression and Exclusion or Instrument of Inclusion and Justice?, The Rev. Dr. Leander Harding, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry. The Covenant, the Quadrilateral, and Balance, The Rev. Dr. Robert Hughes, School of Theology, University of the South. The Consitutionality of an Anglican Covenant, the Rt. Rev. Joe Morris Doss,President, At the Threshold. Third Panel: The Lambeth Conference 2008 and the Anglican Covenant: Juridical or Missiological Imperatives?, the Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, Episcopal Divinity School. Communion, Federation, or Sect?, the Very Rev. Dr. John Kevern, Bexley Hall.Vernacular Particularity vs. Global Universalism: A Pivotal Issue for the Anglican Covenant, the Rev. Dr. Richard Leggett, Vancouver School of Theology. The Covenant and Ecumenical Opportunity, the Rev. Canon Dr. J. Robert Wright, read by the Rev. Dr. Ellen Sloan, Chaplain, General Theological Seminary. Fourth Panel: Forbearance and Reconciliation: An Anglican Covenant in a Season of Judgment, the Rev. Dr. Christopher Seitz, Wycliffe College. Covenant: Ecclesiological Implications of a Latent Metaphor, the Rev. Canon Dr. Paul Jennings, Montreal Diocesan Theological College. The Fullness of the Stature of Christ: The Anglican Covenant in Ecumenical Ecclesiological Perspective, Dr. Nathan Jennings, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. Mission and Reconciliation in the Anglican Covenant, the Rev. Dr. Titus L. Presler, General Theological Seminary. Third Keynote Address: Boundaries Old and Boundaries New: Views from the Edge of the Anglican Communion, the Rev. Canon Gregory Cameron, Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion. [PLEASE NOTE: Recordings of the Third and Fourth Panels will be forthcoming in the near future.]
Twentieth Annual Lecture of the Center for Jewish-Christian Studies and Relations -- Rabbi Or Rose, Associate Dean of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School, Sharing the Journey: A Jewish Perspective on Learning with Christians. March 26, 2008. (audio)
Sixth Annual Lecture of the Center for Christian Spirituality -- the Rev. Dr. Margaret Guenther, former Director of the Center, The Cure of Souls: The Place of Spiritual Direction in Theological Education. February 19, 2008. (audio)
Keynote Addresses from Reconciliation at the Roundtable: God's Call in the 21st Century, an international conference held at the Desmond Tutu Center, Septermber 10-12, 2007. Religious Violence, Terrorism and the Ministry of Reconciliation, Dr. Christopher Marshall, Professor of New Testament, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, September 10, 2007. One Family in One World: God' Vision for Human Community, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Anglican Church of Southern Africa, September 11, 2007. Through Justice to Reconciliation: Bearing Fruit on the Ground, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, September 12, 2007. (all audio)
