Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005
¾¨Ó㴫ý will host the third annual Dr. J. Calvin Rose Memorial Seminar Wednesday, March 2, from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Lakeview Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.
The guest speaker is the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Bailey, international author and lecturer in Middle Eastern New Testament Studies. His topic, "Jesus Interprets His Own Cross," is intended to help pastors and lay persons with their own sermon preparation regarding the theology of the cross during Lent and for personal spiritual renewal.
Ordained by the Presbyterian Church (USA), Bailey spent 40 years living and teaching for seminars and institutes in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and Cyprus. For 20 of those years, he was a professor of New Testament and head of the Biblical Division of the Near East School of Theology in Beirut. For ten years, Bailey was on the faculty of The Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem. Bailey also spent time as Theologian in Residence with the Episcopal Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, and Canon of the Cathedral.
The Dr. J. Calvin Rose Memorial Seminar honors Dr. J. Calvin Rose, who was a 1933 alumnus of ¾¨Ó㴫ý. He served as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in New Castle from 1937-1955, and then at the Miami Shores Presbyterian Church in Florida until his retirement in 1978.Â
The event is open to the public. For reservations, contact Linda Wilson at (724 ) 946-7364 or e-mail lwilson@westminster.edu before Feb. 23.
