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11.09.06 
VanDrunen Presents Paper in Waco, TX
10.24.06
Dr. Byron Curtis on Campus
10.12.06
Dr. Cornelis Venema Spoke at WSC
09.12.06
Seminary For A Day Report
09.15.06
2006 Pacific Northwest Reformation Conference
08.09.06
Jones in Australia
07.31.06
Horton at The Cedar Falls Bible Conference
07.02.06
Estelle in Scotland
06.30.06
Clark at Westminster Conference
06.20.06
A Heartfelt Farewell to Dr. Iain Duguid
06.15.06
Jones at the Blackstone Legal Fellowship
05.19.06
Jones Response to Da Vinci Code
04.01.06
Clark and Horton Book Releases
03.16.06
Baugh Inauguration
03.07.06
2006 den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry
02.01.06
Kim Takes First Place in Acton Essay Competition
01.25.06
James Herrick Lecture
01.13.06
Horton Article in Christianity Today
01.01.06
Dawn Doorn Appointed Vice President for Advancement
November 2006
November 9-11, 2006, Dr. VanDrunen Presented Paper
Dr. David VanDrunen presented a paper at The World and Christian Imagination Conference in Waco, TX. The title of the paper was: "The Christological Turn in 20th Century Reformed Cultural Thought: Kuyper and Barth on the Natural Law and Two Kingdoms Traditions."
October 2006
October 24-25, 2006, Dr. Byron Curtis on Campus
On October 24 and 25, WSC hosted Dr. Byron Curtis, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College. His address was entitled "A Steep and Stony Road: The Prophet Zechariah and the Deutero-Zechariah Hypothesis" in the WSC Chapel.
October 12-13, 2006, Dr. Cornelis Venema Spoke at WSC
The Westminster Student Association brought Dr. Cornelis Venema to campus for the WSA Fall Lecture. Dr. Venema is the President and Professor of Doctrinal Studies at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana. Dr. Venema spoke on "Covenant Communion or Paedocommunion?: A Test Case in Covenant Theology" on October 13 in the WSC Chapel.
September 2006
"Seminary for a Day," September 12, 2006
WSC hosted its bi-annual prospective student visit day on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006.
"Seminary for a Day" is a unique opportunity to experience WSC firsthand through interaction with faculty, staff and current students. Click here for a report and photos of this event.
2006 Pacific Northwest Reformation Conference
On Sept. 15-16,
President Godfrey and Dr. Horton spoke on “The Last Days: What Does The Bible Teach?” sponsored by Lynden United Reformed Church in Lynden, WA. The church is pastored by
WSC alumnus Christopher Gordon.
To read more about the conference please visit Lynden URC's
homepage.
August 2006
August 9-13 Dr. Peter Jones in Australia
On Saturday, August 12, Dr. Peter Jones presented two six-hour seminars
on “Back to the Future: The Challenge of Neo-Paganism.”
July 2006
July 31-Aug.
2 Cedar Falls Bible Conference
Dr. Michael Horton led the Pastor's Conference in
Cedar Falls, IA on Tuesday, August 1, speaking on
"Postmodernism and the Emergent Church" and "The Church as
Community Theater."
For more information Click here.
Summer Greek
On July 24 2006 at 8:00 AM, 30 new students eagerly embarked on a
journey of Summer Greek I. This summer course is an intensive class
that inaugurates the language requirements for both the Master of
Divinity and Master of Arts degree programs.
Language study is an important enterprise here at WSC - not for the
sake of language itself, but for the sake of accurate interpretation
of Scripture. WSC also offers an introduction to Greek I that
spans over the winter and spring semesters (from January to May).
If you would like more information about biblical language
courses, please contact the WSC admissions office at 760/480.8474 or
via email.
July 2-6 Dr. Bryan Estelle presented a
paper entitled, "The Riddle of Galatians 3:10 and its
Context: Revisited Again" at the International Meeting of
the Society of Biblical Literature. This meeting was
held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Recently
the confessional view of the law's requirement of perfect
obedience has been repeatedly called into question. Few
passages in the New Testament have received as much
attention in this debate as Galatians 3. Uncovering the
logic of Galatians 3 has turned into a major focal point in
the debate. The thesis of Professor Estelle's paper is that
a modern linguistic communication theory, i.e., relevance
theory, has tremendous explanatory power for the text under
consideration.
June 30-July 1, Dr. R. Scott Clark spoke on
"Recovering the Reformed Confession." at The Westminster
Confession into the 21st Century, Pittsburgh, PA.
The contemporary Reformed community faces an identity
crisis. We are tempted to define our identity by looking in
the mirror. To use our own reflection as the baseline for
the definition of what it is to be Reformed would be a
significant mistake. This lecture will argue that there is a
better and more reliable definition of the Reformed identity
in the Reformed confessions as understood by the Reformed
tradition. For details about the conference go to
http://www.westminsterconference.org.
JUNE 2006
A Heartfelt Farewell to Dr. Iain
Duguid
With a mixture of sadness and joy, the WSC community bids
farewell to Dr. Iain Duguid, his wife Barb, and their five
children as they set out for Grove City College in western
Pennsylvania on June 20, 2006.
We rejoice that the Lord has provided an opportunity for Dr.
Duguid to bring his insights into the Christ-centered
message of the whole Bible into the formation of so many
young adults. We also rejoice that Dr. Duguid's move to the
Grove City College faculty adds another bond of friendship
and partnership in the Gospel between WSC and GCC.
We will miss the Duguids here, and certainly students who
have studied under Dr. Duguid will recall with appreciation
his blend of insightful Old Testament scholarship and a deep
pastoral passion (and practical wisdom) for preaching the
Word to the church. Recognizing Dr. Duguid's decade of
teaching here, we have come to expect that his exegesis of
an OT text in the classroom will inevitably lead to the
question, "Now, how should we preach this?"
We are thankful that the move to Grove City does not mean
the end of our collaboration with Dr. Duguid and of his
ministry to our students. We look forward to welcoming him
back in January 2007 to teach an elective on Esther and a
portion of the Prophets course.
June 15, Dr. Peter Jones lectured twice at the Blackstone Legal Fellowship --a nine-week summer
leadership development program in law and servant ministry
for exceptionally capable and highly motivated Christian law
students. For details visit
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship.
Jones Responds
to Da Vinci Code
WSC's scholar-in-residence, Dr. Peter Jones, responded to
the influence of the popular bestselling novel, The Da Vinci
Code. He has co-authored with James Garlow a book called
Cracking Da Vinci's Code.
Read his article "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" (from a
previous issue of
Evangelium).
World Magazine interviews Peter Jones on the Da Vinci Code
Dr. Jones is director of Christian Witness to a Pagan
Planet (CWIPP), an organization dedicated to equipping the
Church in bringing the good news of the Gospel to an
increasingly pagan world.. For more information on his book,
visit www.cwipp.org.
APRIL 2006
Profs. Clark and Horton
announce new book releases
Caspar
Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double
Benefit of Christ
by R. Scott Clark
This study of Caspar Olevian's doctrine of the covenant and
its 'twofold benefit', justification and sanctification,
places Olevian's thought in historical context, and, by so
doing, puts to rest a number of misconstructions of
doctrinal development during this time while shedding new
light upon the relationship of Olevian's theology to that of
the Heidelberg Catechism, of Calvin and of the wider
Reformed world.
God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology
by
Michael Horton
In this masterful summary of covenant theology, Horton
carefully shows how systematic covenant theology holds
together many important biblical principles. Clear and
comprehensive, this book is the ideal introduction to
covenant theology.
- Dr. Philip Graham Ryken, senior minister, Tenth
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MARCH 2006
Baugh Inauguration
WSC commemorated the promotion of
Dr. Steven M. Baugh
to Professor of New Testament with an inauguration ceremony on Thursday, March 16 at 10:00 a.m. in the WSC
chapel. Dr. Baugh's inaugural address was entitled "Into the
Holy of Holies: Covenant and Kingdom in Hebrews."
den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry
The annual den Dulk lectures on Pastoral Ministry, sponsored by the friends of
Bob and Nellie den Dulk, was held Tuesday – Thursday,
March 7, 8 and 9, in the Chapel at Westminster Seminary
California.
The speaker was Dr. Robert M. Norris, Senior Pastor of
Fourth
Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland since 1984.
Dr. Norris grew up in Wales and studied at Kings College and
the University of St. Andrews. He received his Ph.D. (dual
doctorates in History and Dogmatics) from the University of
St. Andrews in 1977.
Dr. Norris spoke on “Ministry without Miracles.” His
three lectures addressed the Inner Life of the Pastor,
the Pastor as Theologian, and the Pastor as Shepherd.
Lectures are from 10 – 11 a.m. each day. Approximately 100
people
attended including several pastors from the local area.
FEBRUARY 2006
Kim Takes First Place in Acton Essay Competition
WSC student Kony Kim (MAT,
’06) won first prize in the
Acton
Institute’s essay competition for young religious
intellectuals. Ms. Kim’s essay is entitled
Imago Dei: The Transcendent Basis of True Liberty and Just
Authority.
JANUARY 2006
Special Lecture by James Herrick
WSC and Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (CWIPP)
sponsored a public lecture “New Spiritualities, New
Mythologies, and the Search for New Gods” by Professor James
Herrick, Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication, Hope
College in Holland, MI. The lecture took place on
Wednesday, January 25, 2006, in the WSC chapel.
Dr. Herrick is an informed observer of the spiritual
revolution that is going on all around us, having written
one of the major books on the subject, The Making of the New
Spirituality (IVP, 2003). This present lecture showed the deep connection between the neo-pagan understanding
of a divine, evolving Nature with what is being developed in
certain areas of science and science fiction.
CWIPP is an organization dedicated to equipping the Church
in bringing the good news of the Gospel to an increasingly
pagan world. For more information, visit
www.cwipp.org.
"How the Kingdom Comes" by Michael Horton
The church becomes countercultural by sinking its roots ever
deeper into God's heavenly gifts. Read Michael Horton's lead
article for the Christian Vision Project which appears in
this month's issue of
Christianity Today Magazine.
Dawn Doorn Appointed Vice
President for Advancement
Westminster Seminary California is very pleased to
announce the appointment of Dawn Doorn to the new position
of Vice President for Advancement. Dawn is a Certified
Fund-Raising Executive with twenty years’ experience in the
nonprofit sector. She will lead the advancement and
publications work of the seminary while continuing her
development work for White Horse Media. The Board of
Trustees has charged her with integrating the two
development departments. Dawn comes to this position with a
strong commitment to the Reformed faith and a thorough
understanding of the work of the seminary.
Westminster Seminary California announces with great regret
the resignation of Richard Carlson as Vice President of
Development effective April 17, 2006. He has led the
development department of the seminary for the past three
years with vision and effectiveness. He remains committed to
the mission of the seminary.
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