Saskatoon Theological Union Blog

The Lord is Spirit

2012-01-09T17:32:00.000-06:00

The Saskatoon Theological Union

invites all to attend a panel discussion of

The Lord is the Spirit:
The Holy Spirit and the Divine Attributes

Dr. Andrew K. Gabriel,

Horizon College

Date: Thursday, February 2, 7:00pm

Location: Room 322, St. Andrew’s College

Panelists: Gordon Jensen, Jeromey Martini, Don Schweitzer, HyeRan Kim-Cragg

Faith and Politics

2011-11-14T09:39:00.000-06:00

“Faith and Politics"

Bill Blaikie

Bill Blaikie was first elected to Parliament in 1979, and was subsequently re-elected eight times. He was the NDP critic for health, environment, foreign affairs and trade.

Time: Thursday, November 24, 7pm-9pm

Location: Main Lounge of St. Andrew's College

All are welcome to attend

At 7:00 pm Bill will be signing copies of his new book, The Blaikie Report.

At 7:30 pm he will give his talk, "Faith and Politics," on the involvement of faith in political life.

Multi-Faith Sacred Sites Tour

2011-11-11T15:47:00.002-06:00

On Saturday, November 19th, the Multi-Faith Chaplains Association is hosting a Multi-Faith Sacred Sites tour, and we would like to invite you to join us. The tour will begin at 9:45 at Congregation Agudas Israel (715 McKinnon), where we will attend the Sabbath service and join the community for lunch afterwards. Following lunch we will travel to the Saskatoon Islamic Centre for a tour and to observe prayers. From there we will travel to the Ukrainian Catholic Parish of The Dormition of The Blessed Mother of God, in Sutherland, to tour the church and to learn more about the Eastern Catholic tradition within Christianity.

At each of these locations we will be hosted by members of the Multi-Faith Chaplains Association, so it’s also a good opportunity to meet some other members of communities of faith on campus.

If you are interested in joining us for the day, please contact Michael MacLean (STM Campus Ministry) at 966-8931 or mmaclean@stmcollege.ca. We need to know numbers in advance so that those who are providing lunch at the synagogue will know how much to prepare.

Contesting Conversion Book Launch

2011-11-03T14:24:00.002-06:00

Please join us in celebrating the publication of

Contesting Conversion

by Matthew Thiessen

Senior Lecturer in New Testament,

The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad

Wine and Cheese Reception

Location: Main Foyer, LTS Building,

114 Seminary Crescent, Saskatoon

Time: 5:00-7:00pm, Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Sacrifice of Jesus Book Launch

2011-10-30T10:36:00.000-06:00

Please join us in celebrating the publication of

The Sacrifice of Jesus

by Christian A. Eberhart

Professor of New Testament Studies

Lutheran Theological Seminary

Wine and Cheese Reception

Location: Main Foyer, Lutheran Theological Seminary

114 Seminary Crescent, Saskatoon

Time: 5:00-7:00pm, Thursday, November 3, 2011

Paul’s Vision for Christian Community

2011-10-26T10:43:00.000-06:00

Martin Memorial Lectures

The College of Emmanuel and St. Chad

Dr. Richard Ascough

Leading Locally, Linking Globally:

Paul’s Vision for Christian Community

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, Willows Golf and Country Club

6.30pm Alumni and Friends’ Fundraiser Dinner**

7.30pm Lecture - Richard Ascough***

Paul’s Leadership Practice

9.00pm Compline

Wednesday, November 2, 2011, Emmanuel and St. Chad - LTS Library

7.00pm Lecture - Richard Ascough

Paul’s Leadership Principles

8.30pm Compline, ESC Chapel

Thursday, November 3, 2011, Emmanuel and St. Chad - LTS Library

8.45am Morning Prayer, ESC Chapel

9.30am Lecture - Richard Ascough

Paul’s Leadership Legacy

**For tickets to the Fundraiser Dinner, please contact Lisa McInnis (306-975-1550)

***All are welcome to attend the free lecture after the Fundraiser Dinner

The Sacrifice of Jesus

2011-10-07T14:42:00.000-06:00

The Saskatoon Theological Union Graduate Studies Seminar presents

A Panel Discussion of Christian Eberhart’s (Professor of New Testament at Lutheran Theological Seminary) new book,

The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically

Publisher’s Synopsis: Christian A. Eberhart makes a decisive contribution to these debates by carefully and clearly examining the Old Testament metaphors of sacrifice and atonement and the ways these metaphors were taken over by early Christians to speak of the significance of Christ. Eberhart shows that these New Testament appropriations have been misunderstood as requiring a logic of necessary violence; rather they speak to larger Christological themes concerning the whole mission and life of Jesus.

Panelists: Christian Eberhart, Kristine Ruffatto, Matt Thiessen, Don Schweitzer.

All Welcome
October 20, 7:00 pm
St. Andrew’s College,
Room 322.

Reconciliation and Residential Schools: A Historian’s Perspective

2011-09-22T09:10:00.000-06:00

Saskatoon Theological Union

Graduate Studies Seminar

“Reconciliation and Residential Schools: A Historian’s Perspective”

Dr. Jim Miller,

Canada Research Chair and Professor of History

University of Saskatchewan

All Welcome

September 29, 7:00 pm

St. Andrew’s College,

Room 322.

The Sacrifice of Jesus

2011-08-02T09:53:00.000-06:00

Christian A. Eberhart, Professor of New Testament Studies at Lutheran Theological Seminary, has just published a book entitled The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically (Fortress Press, 2011).

I recommend it highly for anyone interested in this topic

Contesting Conversion

2011-07-25T06:02:00.000-06:00

I am happy to announce that my monograph, Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, has hit the shelves.

For full information, click here to visit Oxford University Press’s webpage for the book. Here is the publisher’s description of it:

Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the various forms of Judaism from which the early Christian movement arose.

Beginning with analysis of the Hebrew Bible, Thiessen argues that there is no evidence that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. In fact, circumcision, particularly the infant circumcision practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period, many Jews began to subscribe to a definition of Jewishness that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Other Jews, such as the author of Jubilees, found this definition problematic, reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. As a result, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect genealogy.

Thiessen's examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion allows a deeper understanding of early Christianity. Contesting Conversion shows that careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has crucial implications for understanding the variegated nature of early Christian mission to the Gentiles in the first century C.E.

Richard Ascough Lectures

2011-04-27T07:36:00.000-06:00

Martin Memorial Lectures

College of Emmanuel & St. Chad

November 1-3, 2011

Richard S. Ascough

Associate Professor

of New Testament

at Queen's School of Religion

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario

Leading Locally, Linking Globally: Paul’s Vision for

Christian Community

Abstract: The apostle Paul presents a challenging study in leadership. All that remains from his ministry are a small collection of letters and a brief outline of his travels around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. From this evidence, however, it is possible to catch a glimpse of a person who was passionately committed to the success of the communities founded in Jesus’ name. His letters suggest that, despite modern perception to the contrary, Paul was not a top-down manager of his communities. Rather, Paul encouraged and cajoled local members to take responsibility for the formation and development of their corporate spiritual lives. These talks will explore Paul’s leadership practices among his communities and investigate the principles that were the basis not only for his own leadership but also for recognizing the leadership potential for members of the local Jesus-associations.

Schedule:

Tuesday evening:

Paul’s Leadership Practice

Wednesday evening:

Paul’s Leadership Principle

Thursday morning:

Paul’s Leadership Legacy

Richard S. Ascough is the author of numerous articles and essays on early Jesus-believers, and has published six books, including:

What Are They Saying About the Formation of Pauline Churches? (1998),

Paul’s Macedonian Associations (2003),

Passionate Visionary: Leadership Lessons from the Apostle Paul (with Sandy Cotton, 2005),

and Lydia: Paul's Cosmopolitan Hostess (2009).

He is currently working on a sourcebook of primary and secondary texts for understanding the many small, unofficial associations in Greco-Roman antiquity and is writing a socio-rhetorical commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians. He has been recognized for his innovative teaching in a number of ways, including both of the top two university-wide teaching awards at Queen’s University (2002 and 2009).

More information will be available at the college website.

LTS Annual Study Conference

2011-04-20T09:44:00.000-06:00

Time: May 3-5, 2011
Location: LTS Library

Schedule:
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
9.00-10.00am Registration
10.00-10.45am Lecture: Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik
   "Keeping Time"
10.45-11.15am Coffee
11.15-12.00pm Discussion
12.00-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-2.45pm Lecture: Dr. Matthew Thiessen
   "Pauline Allegory and the Sons of Abraham"
2.45-3.15pm Coffee
3.15-4.00pm Discussion
4.00-5.30pm Pericope Study for Easter VI
5.30-7.00pm Supper
7.00-7.45pm Lecture: Rev. Dr. Gordon Jensen
   "The Gospel: Luther's Lynch-pin for Catholicity"
7.45-8.30pm Discussion
8.30pm Compline

Wednesday, May 4, 2011
9.15-10.00am Morning Prayer
10.00-10.30am Coffee
10.30-11.15am Panel Discussion: Rev. Dr. Cameron Harder
   "Acts of God: Disaster in the Community and the Church's Response"
11.15am-2.00pm Free Time
2.00-3.30pm Lecture: Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik
   "Engaging Space"
3.30-5.00pm LTS Alumni Reception (Foyer)
5.00-5.30pm Evening Prayer

Thursday, May 5, 2011
9.00-9.45am Lecture: Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik
   "Knowing Home"
9.45-10.30am Discussion
10.30-11.00am Coffee
11.00-12.00pm Closing Eucharist

The Invention of Memory

2011-04-12T10:28:00.000-06:00

Graduate Studies Council Seminar
of the Saskatoon Theological Union

Title: "The Invention of Memory: The Conversion of Augustine's Rhetoric."
Presenter: Michael Putman, MTS student at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad

Time: Thursday, April 14, 7.00pm
Location: St. Andrew's College, Room 322

Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting Program

2011-03-28T19:03:00.000-06:00

Richard Ascough recently sent out the program for the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, which will meet in Fredericton, New Brunswick, May 29-31, 2011. Click here to see the details.

Lutheran Study Conference 2011

2011-03-22T11:37:00.000-06:00

"The Life-Giving Church: Keeping Time, Engaging Space, Knowing Home"

Speaker: Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik

Lecture 1: "Keeping Time"

Lecture 2: "Engaging Space"

Lecture 3: "Knowing Home"

Rev. Dr. Melinda Quivik, earned a Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California in 2003 with focus on worship and preaching. From 2005-2010 she was professor of worship and preaching at Lutheran Theological Seminary Philadelphia. Before her graduate work, she served as a pastor in churches in Montana and Minnesota. Her M.Div. degree is from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP); her B.A., from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Dr. Quivik currently serves as one of six core writers for Feasting on the Word: Worship Companion, a 3-volume ecumenical compendium of new liturgical language for each lectionary year. Dr. Quivik has served on the faculties of Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Ohio; Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago ACTS D.Min. in Preaching program; the ACTS lay school of theology in Virginia; and the summer music and worship program at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina.

She has given workshops and lectures on liturgical theology, the liturgical year, life passages, various preaching topics, and aesthetics. Her publications include Serving the Word: Preaching in Worship (Fortress, 2009); A Christian Funeral: Witness to the Resurrection (Augsburg Fortress, 2005); and essays for the ELCA Worship Office, New Proclamation (Fortress Press), Preaching Social Justice from the Lectionary and New Interpreter's Theological Companion to the Lectionary (Abingdon Press), Sundays and Seasons (Augsburg Fortress), Liturgy, Call to Worship (Presbyterian), Journal of Lutheran Ethics, WorkingPreacher.org, and New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology (WJK).

Registration:

Date – Tuesday, May 3, 9:00 a.m.
Cost – $25
Accommodation:

limited available at Luther Residence (306-966-7898)
Parking:

$15 - permits for Lot E (adjacent to Seminary), will be sold at registration Alumni Reception (TBA)

Hordern Classic Golf Tournament (TBA; phone: 306-966-7850)

Lutheran Theological Seminary Hires OT Professor

2011-03-19T17:58:00.000-06:00

The Board of Governors and Faculty of Lutheran Theological Seminary Saskatoon are pleased to announce the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Kristine Ruffatto as Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew.

Dr. Ruffatto has long experience as a parish pastor and new mission developer in Wisconsin and Minnesota, currently serving as co-pastor with her husband, the Rev. Scot Ruffatto, at St. John's Lutheran, Brookfield, Wisconsin. She has also served as a missionary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Central African Republic where she taught Biblical and Systematic Theology at a seminary. Dr. Ruffatto has taught at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and at Marquette University in Wisconsin.

Her training includes certification in Pre-marital, Marital and Family Therapy. She earned her Ph.D. at Marquette in Biblical Theology. Her dissertation is entitled, "Visionary Ascents of Moses in Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: Apocalyptic Motifs and the Growth of Visionary Moses Tradition."

Dr. Ruffatto's academic and pastoral record and her commitment to a global perspective on mission and ministry make her an ideal fit for Lutheran Theological Seminary. She will begin her service on July 1, 2011.

Spring and Summer Intensive Courses

2011-03-18T08:17:00.000-06:00

Saskatoon Theological Union

Spring/Summer Term 2011

BE 105/106 Greek I and II