The Bible, not our experience, provides authority and context for understanding and developing our spirituality. This course trains us to bring our personal experience into the large world of the Bible where it has room to breathe and expand, rather than squeeze the Bible into the cramped confines of our sin-stunted experience. The course ranges through both the Old and the New Testament, using the Trinity as an organizing structure.

Eugene H. Peterson is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. He has written numerous books, authored a commentary on the books of 1 & 2 Samuel, and translated the Bible (The Message) into contemporary English.

In this lecture series, C. Baxter Kruger will examine whether Christians think Jesus is merely a potential Saviour, extending a really good offer, or do they really live out their belief that he is the King of Cosmos, calling us to believe the good news of our inclusion in the relationship of Father and the Son through the Spirit.

• Lecture 1: God vs. Father, Son and Spirit
• Lecture 2: Jesus
• Lecture 3: Secret
• Lecture 4: Education
• Lecture 5: Education (cont)
• Lecture 6: Service

Includes Notes

C. Baxter Kruger theologian, writer and lure designer, is the Director of Perichoresis ministry. A native of Prentiss, Mississippi, Baxter has a BA from the University of Mississippi, a M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Kings College, University of Aberdeen. He has worked as a minister to college students, as a lecturer in theology at the University of Aberdeen, and as an associate pastor.

The Story in the Story was given at the Good Shepherd Community Church in Toronto. The recording includes an informal talk and a conversation on the key themes found in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Ralph C. Wood is University Professsor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University. There he has taught award-winning courses that are devoted to the relation of Christian faith to imaginitive literature. He is the author of The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists., Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth and Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.

Tolkien & Lewis was given at the Yorkminister Baptist Church in Toronto and explores the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

Ralph C. Wood is University Professsor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University. There he has taught award-winning courses that are devoted to the relation of Christian faith to imaginitive literature. He is the author of The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists., Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth and Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.

In a time when so much popular Christian focus is on the demand for leaders who impress and succeed, the biblical texts on spirituality in difficult circumstances provide much needed perspectives, direction and encouragement both for personal life and public ministry. Dr. Hestenes's four-part series will draw upon various Exodus narratives as well as from the Psalms of lament to illumine contemporary themes and resources for the spiritual life of pastors.

We live in a postmodern, post-Christian and neo-pagan world. The clue to worship, spirituality and leadership in this new world is found in the way early Christians brought God's story to life in the ancient pre-modern, pre-Christian and pagan world of the Roman culture. Dr. Webber's three-part series will explore what we can learn from the ancient church that is formative for leadership in the new world.

Roberta Hestenes, President of Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, and has served churches in Washington State and California. She was Associate Professor and Director of Christian Formation and Discipleship at Fuller Theological Seminary before joining Eastern College in 1987. Her articles have appeared in Christianity Today, Eternity, and Sojourners magazines and she is the author of several books. Dr. Hestenes maintains a very active speaking schedule around the world as well.

Robert E. Webber is Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. The founder of the Institute for Worship Studies, he has written extensively on worship, including editing the eight-volume Complete Library of Christian Worship.

This is a public lecture given during Regent Summer School 2008.

Julie Canlis PhD (St. Andrews), MCS (Regent College), BA (University of Washington) is Children's Spiritual Formation Director for Methlick Parish Church, Scotland.

The first Chapel of the Winter 2009 Term

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

A Conference to Mark the Opening of the Conway Research Collection.
By way of thanks to John Conway for his generous donation of extensive research materials, the Regent-Carey Library and the Regent Bookstore co-sponsored this conference focusing on Christian reflection about the Holocaust and Jewish-Christian relations since 1945.

John S. Conway is professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia. He was a founding member of the Scholars' Conference on the German Church and the Holocaust, and has written a large number of articles dealing with the role of the European churches and the Vatican during the Holocaust, as well as on other topics of Christian-Jewish relations during the twentieth century. He is also the author of The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945, recently reprinted by Regent College Publishing. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte and the Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

David Gushee No Biographical Information available.

The world in which the apostle Paul lived and worked was very different from our own. Some of the differences are fairly obvious: Paul was a powerless subject of a transnational empire, not a citizen of a democracy, and the people around him worshiped many different gods, not a single almighty deity. Others are less apparent: the pervasive influence of Greek cultural values; the close link between religion and government; the rigid hierarchy that separated the wealthy elites from the rest of the population; the acceptability of slavery. Still others lie buried beneath the surface, operating at the level of cultural presuppositions: the image of a flat world covered by a starry dome; the idea that some people are inherently better than others; the view of women as “incomplete men.” Occasionally some of these differences bubble to the surface in one of Paul’s letters, but most of the time they are simply taken for granted. This course explores some of the major elements of the social world that lies behind Paul’s letters and evaluate its influence on Paul, his audiences and his letters.

Christopher Stanley is Professor of Theology at St. Bonaventure University in western New York. Stanley has published widely in the field of New Testament studies.

A chapel talk of the winter 2009 term. 'Now Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you."
He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice." (Luke 8:19-21)

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

A chapel talk from the winter 2009 term. Scripture is John 13:1-14.

Darrell W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College. Before accepting this appointment he served for 30 years as Preaching Pastor for churches in the United States and the Philippines. He continues to preach regularly around the world.

This series attempts (1) to master the content of this epistle through sound exegetical methodology, (2) to place the letter within the historical and theological contexts of Paul and the early church, and (3) to wrestle with some of the hermeneutical issues raised by the letter.

Gordon D. Fee is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Regent College. He has authored commentaries on 1 Corinthians, Philippians and the Pastoral Epistles, as well as books on exegesis, hermeneutics and the Holy Spirit.

Bruce Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of Genesis: A Commentary, Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, and commentaries on Micah. He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

This is an Evening Public Lecture from the Spring / Summer of 2009.

Marva Dawn is Adjunct Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. She is also a prolific author, theologian and founder of Christians Equipped for Ministry. Her books include Keeping the Sabbath Wholly and Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society.

This is a chapel of Spring School 2009.

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

This is an Evening Public Lecture from the Spring / Summer of 2009.

James M. Houston is Board of Governors’ Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. He is author of I Believe in the Creator, In Search of Happiness, The Heart’s Desire: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment, The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God., Joyful Exiles, and Letters of Faith Through the Seasons: Vol. I.

This is a chapel of Spring School 2009.

R. Paul Stevens is Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology at Regent College. He is the author of Liberating the Laity, Disciplines of the Hungry Heart, The Other Six Days, Marriage Spirituality, Doing God's Business and co-editor (with Robert J. Banks) of The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity.

This is a chapel of Spring School 2009.

Marva Dawn is Adjunct Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. She is also a prolific author, theologian and founder of Christians Equipped for Ministry. Her books include Keeping the Sabbath Wholly and Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society.

This is an Evening Public Lecture from the Spring / Summer of 2009.

Krish Kandiah Executive Director, Churches in Mission; Evangelical Alliance Associate Research Fellow, London School of Theology. BSc (Warwick University), MA (Birmingham University), PhD (King's College, London). Previously, he served as Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and as Lecturer in the theology faculty of Oxford University. Krish is passionate about helping the church relate relevantly and faithfully to contemporary culture.

This is an Evening Public Lecture from the Spring / Summer of 2009.

Maxine Hancock is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her other books are several on family relationships, including Living on Less and Liking in More, Re-evaluating Your Commitments, and Creative, Confident, Children. And notably, her work on Bunyan in A Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Susan S. Phillips is Executive Director and Professor of Sociology and Christianity at New College Berkely, California. Susan is keenly interested in the ways engaging the caring practices shape us spiritually. She is a certified spiritual director (Mercy Center, Burlingame, California) and has practised spiritual direction since the early 1990s. She edited (with Patricia Benner) The Crisis of Care.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Dr. Oliver Crisp served as an assistant minister in a Baptist church in England for three years before teaching at the University of St. Andrews. He is now the Frederick J. Crosson Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame and is currently writing a book on Christology entitled Christological Questions: Issues in the Metaphysics of Incarnation as well as a book on original sin entitled A Theory of Original Sin.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Paul Barnett was the Anglican Bishop of North Sydney in Australia and is Teaching Fellow, Biblical Studies, Regent College. Lecturer, Moore Theological College, Sydney. THL (Moore Theological College), MA (Sydney), BDS, ThSchol, PhD (University of London). He is author of Jesus and the Logic of History, as well as commentaries on Mark, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Revelation

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

R. Paul Stevens is Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology at Regent College. He is the author of Liberating the Laity, Disciplines of the Hungry Heart, The Other Six Days, Marriage Spirituality, Doing God's Business and co-editor (with Robert J. Banks) of The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

James I. Packer is the Board of Govenors' Professor of Theology at Regent College. His many books include Knowing God and Rediscovering Holiness.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Bernd Wannenwetsch MA, Dr. theol., Dr. theol. Habil. (Universities of Munich and Erlangen, Germany). He is a University Lecturer in Ethics, University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College. Bernd’s research focuses on conceptual problems in Christian ethics, tradition and postmodernism, scriptural ethics, worship, politics, labour and work, the relationship of the sexes, and the theologies of Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bernd is an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria. His most recent book is Political Worship: Ethics for Christian Citizens.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

John Barclay BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge), Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham. John taught at the University of Glasgow for 16 years before taking up his current appointment as Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham. He writes and lectures on a number of topics in the New Testament and early Christianity including gospel passion narratives, Pauline theology, the social formation of the early church, and the history of interpretation of Paul.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Jennie McLaurin is Dean of Students at Regent College, a Medical Doctor and a Wife and Mother married to Andrew with five children.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College since 1979. He is Co-founder and present director of the Institute of American Evangelicals at Wheaton. He is a visiting teacher at Harvard Divinity School, University of Chicago Divinity School, Westminster Theological Seminary and Regent College. He is the author of numerous books including A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (2005). Phd (Vanderbilt University).

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Cynthia Y. Aalders received her BSc from The King's University College, Edmonton, Canada, and her MCS and ThM from Regent College. She currently lives in Vancouver, and is Director of Admissions at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Ross Hastings was Senior Pastor at Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and now serves as Associate Professor of Mission Studies at Regent College.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is the author of Can God Be Trusted? and Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Quentin J. Schultze is a native Chicagoan who earned a Ph.D. in communication from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. His scholarly publications have appeared in several dozen journals. He has also written over a hundred articles for general-interest and religious periodicals. Dr. Schultze has reviewed manuscripts for a dozen trade and university presses and several dozen scholarly journals. He is Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Michael Ward MA (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), PhD (St. Andrews), is a priest of the Church of England and a leading scholar of the works of C.S. Lewis. He served as Chaplain of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge from 2004-2007. He was warden of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home, The Kilns, 1996-1999. He is author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008) and the co-editor of Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe (Hendrickson, 2007). He is co-editing the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis.

This is a chapel of Summer School 2009.

Minho Song BA (UBC), Mdiv, ThM (Regent College), PhD (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School). Senior Pastor, Young Nak Korean Presbyterian Church of Toronto. Minho Song was a missionary to SE Asia with OMF International. He is currently senior pastor of Young Nak Korean Presbyterian Church of Toronto. He also serves as adjunct professor at Asian Theological Seminary in the Philippines, where he taught missions for many years.

This is the first chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Jennie McLaurin is Dean of Students at Regent College, a Medical Doctor and a Wife and Mother married to Andrew with five children.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is the author of Can God Be Trusted? and Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Maxine Hancock is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her other books are several on family relationships, including Living on Less and Liking in More, Re-evaluating Your Commitments, and Creative, Confident, Children. And notably, her work on Bunyan in A Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Duffy Lott Gibb (MPhil, St Andrews), (MCS, Regent), is Director of Summer School and Arts Co-ordinator at Regent College.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Paul Williams (BA, MA, MSc (Oxford), MCS (Regent College)) is David J Brown Family Associate Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College.He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to DTZ Holdings, an international real estate consulting and investment banking group. He came to Regent from his most recent role as Chief Economist and Head of International Research for DTZ.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Hans Boersma sits in the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy and Violence, Hospitality and the Cross.

In this course the lecturer exposits the books of Judges and Ruth with the aim of showing their meaning to Israel and their relevance to the Church today. These books cover the time when judges ruled the kingdom of God and the kingdom fell into anarchy. Amazingly, the writer of Hebrews celebrates these flawed heroes from Israel’s Dark Age as exemplary heroes of the faith. The books’ narrator, through brilliant literary techniques, presents this history and through enthralling biographies shapes the people of God. This course aims to analyse their techniques to let their message be inscribed on the student’s heart.

Bruce Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of Genesis: A Commentary, Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, and commentaries on Micah. He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

This is a chapel of the Fall 2009 term.

Rikk E. Watts is Professor of New Testament at Regent College. He is author of a recently published book on the use of Isaiah in the Gospel of Mark entitled Isaiah's New Exodus in Mark.

This is a public lecture given during Regent Spring School 2008.

Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College since 1979. He is Co-founder and present director of the Institute of American Evangelicals at Wheaton. He is a visiting teacher at Harvard Divinity School, University of Chicago Divinity School, Westminster Theological Seminary and Regent College. He is the author of numerous books including A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (2005). Phd (Vanderbilt University).

In his Confessions, Augustine cried out to God, “Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!” It seemed natural to Augustine and to many thinkers since to understand God as Beauty Itself, the source of everything beautiful. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change” (James 1:17). Among the good and perfect gifts God has given us is the experience of beauty, an experience that shows us something of God’s own nature. This course examines the theology of beauty through the work of theologians such as Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Edwards and Balthasar. It also considers the insights of artists and poets, such as Fra Lippo Lippi, Dante, Rembrandt, J. S. Bach, John Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, C. S. Lewis and Wendell Berry. However, this is not a course in the theology of art, but in the theology of beauty. We are concerned first of all with what it means to understand God as Beauty and then with the question of how the beauty of the creation, most especially the beauty of other people, may serve to direct us back to God.

Laura Smit PhD (Boston University), Mdiv (Calvin Theological Seminary), BA (Calvin College) is Dean of Chapel and Associate Professor of Theology at Calvin College. She is the author of Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love.

This series aims to show how Christian doctrine can be explored and expounded through the arts, especially the visual and musical arts. It is not primarily a series in the arts, but a one in theology--theology pursued in an artistic way. The listener will discover that the arts have a unique and irreplaceable part to play in the growth of Christian wisdom: difficult and unfamiliar themes are brought to the light and made clearer, and familiar themes opened up in novel and exciting ways.

Jeremy S. Begbie is Associate Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. Honorary Professor, University of St. Andrews. BA (Edinburgh), BD, PhD (Aberdeen), ARCM (Royal College of Music, London), LRAM (Royal Academy of Music, London).He is the author of Music in God’s Purposes, Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts, and Theology, Music and Time.

This is the first chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

This is a chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Bruce Hindmarsh is the James Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Dr. Hindmarsh was a Pew research fellow at Oxford University from 1995-1997. He is author of John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversion of Wesley and Wilberforce.

This is a chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Hans Boersma sits in the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy and Violence, Hospitality and the Cross.

This is a chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Darrell W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College. Before accepting this appointment he served for 30 years as Preaching Pastor for churches in the United States and the Philippines. He continues to preach regularly around the world.

This is a chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Polly Long is a sessional lecturer at Regent College. She teaches Greek and Academic Writing.

This is a Chapel talk from the Fall of 2008.

V. Philips Long joined Regent College in the Fall of 2000 after teaching at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri for 15 years years. After receiving his MDiv from Gordon-Conwell, Phil served for four years with Greater Europe Mission in Germany as a lecturer in Biblical Languages and Old Testament Exegesis. He obtained his PhD at Cambridge and has also studied at the University of Heidelberg and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of many books including The Art of Biblical History.

This is a Chapel talk from the Fall of 2008.

Darrell W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College. Before accepting this appointment he served for 30 years as Preaching Pastor for churches in the United States and the Philippines. He continues to preach regularly around the world.

This is a Chapel talk from the Fall of 2008. Luci Shaw shares advent reflections on the Incarnation.

Luci Shaw is a teacher, editor, poet, and writer of creative prose, as well as a journal keeper and ardent photographer. She is writer in residence at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, and is author of more than twenty-five books, eight of them volumes of poetry. Luci is a frequent lecturer in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. She lives in Washington State with her husband, John Hoyte.

This course examines the Bible’s views on homosexual practice in the context of a broader discussion of human sexuality. Particular attention will be given to the creation texts, the Sodom narrative and related stories, the Levitical prohibitions, the witness of Jesus on human sexuality, and several key texts in Paul (Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10) in the broader context of Pauline sexual ethics. The three main arguments for dismissing the biblical witness on homosexual practice will be assessed and critiqued (the exploitation, orientation and misogyny arguments). The course also deals with philosophic nature arguments, current socio-scientific information and church and public policy issues. Students are equipped to think through the issue of homosexual practice and to make a reasoned and compassionate case for the importance of a male-female prerequisite for valid sexual unions.

Robert Gagnon PhD (Princeton), MTS (Harvard Divinity School), BA (Dartmouth) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics and co-author of Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views.

This is a Christian's in the Market Place conference from 1993. Titles of the talks are;

1. The Spirituality of Business I Eugene Peterson
2. Devotional Eugene Peterson
3. Learning from the Past Dean Griffith
4. Planning for the Future Don Flow
5. The Spirituality of Business II Eugene Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. He has written numerous books, authored a commentary on the books of 1 & 2 Samuel, and translated the Bible (The Message) into contemporary English.

The political prominence of a “Christian Religious culture” in North America makes us all the more exposed to the secularization of contemporary Christianity. This course will broadly survey contributory causes for the loss of transcendence today, in contrast to its devotional expressions in the history of the Church. Such traditional issues as “the fear of the Lord,” God and history, education by exemplars, prayer-meditation-contemplation, contrition and confession, Heaven-Purgatory- Hell, biblical authority, Sabbath rest, mission and sacrifice, and now spiritual discernment and direction, have formed a sequence in the life of devotion, which will be studied historically and applied contemporaneously.

James M. Houston is Board of Governors’ Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. He is author of I Believe in the Creator, In Search of Happiness, The Heart’s Desire: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment, The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God., Joyful Exiles, and Letters of Faith Through the Seasons: Vol. I.

A Chapel Talk from the Winter of 2005.

Rod Wilson is President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community, Exploring Your Anger, Helping Angry People., How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?

Two lectures were delivered by Stanley Hauerwas. The first is entitled Learning the Languages of Peace in which Hauerwas offers an alternative to other suggestions about what it means to live in a global society as Christians. Notably, he will challenge some of the universalistic presumptions that make commitment to the Lordship of Christ problematic. The second lecture is entitled A Worldly Church: Politics, Theology and the Common Good in which Hauerwas shows how an understanding of practical reason reveals a politics of locality, and how that politics is also a form of ecclesiology.

NOTE: Due to technical difficulties the first lecture is 'choppy' which makes listen slightly difficult.

Stanley Hauerwas PhD (Yale), D.D. (Edinburgh) is a Christian theologian and ethicist. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and is currently the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law.

The primary claim of the Christian faith is that God, the universal creator, has in person entered space and time in his eternal Son, Jesus Christ; and that Christ’s coming, culminating in his death and resurrection, represents the central cultural event in the human story, and the one hope of salvation for all humanity. The Book of Acts, Luke’s sequel to his account of Jesus’ ministry, accompanies Jesus’ disciples as they respond to his mandate to take the good news about Jesus to “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth.” The class traces the exciting and challenging story of the beginnings of the global mission, and attempts to relate the text to contemporary missional realities through detailed exegesis of important passages and more general reflection. The aim is to rekindle a sense of commitment to the church’s worldwide calling, as well as learning the lessons of the pioneer generation of witnesses.

Bruce Milne taught at Spurgeon's College, London before coming to Vancouver to become senior pastor at First Baptist Church. He is now the Vice-President of the Baptist World Alliance. His books include We Belong Together, Know the Truth, and most recently The Message of Heaven and Hell: Grace and Destiny.

Our world is undergoing massive changes, many of which are associated with globalization. This course examines the concept of globalization, especially as it affects culture and religion. Two quite different religious trends are associated with globalization—the rise in religious extremism / religious violence and the tendency toward religious pluralism. The course will explore the nature of these trends and their implications for Christian mission. Participants in the course should gain increased understanding of some of the religious dynamics evident today and be challenged to consider what it means to be disciples of Jesus Christ in our globalizing world.

Harold Netland PhD (Claremont Graduate University), BA (Biola) is a Professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism and the Question of Truth.

A Chapel Talk from the Winter of 2005.

John M. Perkins is founder and Chairman of Christian Community Development Association, as well as, President of John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development. He is a recipient of numerous honorary doctorates and has been a lecturer at Stanford University, Harvard University, and Oxford University. His many publications include Let Justice Roll Down, Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development and A Time to Heal.

A Chapel Talk from the Winter of 2005.

Ruth Tank is a graduate of Regent College MCS program.

Exodus (The Second Book of Moses) is studied with an historical, exegetical and theological approach. Students will come to understand why the “Exodus event” is the prototype Old Testament act of redemption, and how it prefigures the great act of redemption in the victory of Jesus Christ. Practical applications of the book are made.

Carl E. Armerding retired as Academic Director of Schloss Mittersill Study Centre, Mittersill, Austria. He is former President and Professor of Old Testament at Regent College, and is author of The Old Testament and Criticism. He continues to teach and speak and resides in Vancouver Canada.

A number of prominent evangelical historians gave papers on new directions for historical exploration within the Evangelical past.

1. Divining Lives: History, Biography, and the Conflict of Interpretations by Roger Lundin (Wheaton College)
2. Putting Hymnody to Use for the History of Evangelicalism by Mark Noll
3. So Much Idolized by Some, and Railed at by Others': George Whitefield and Evangelical History by David Jones (Aberystwyth University)
4. Theologically Conservative Christianity and Moral Progress by George Marsden (Notre Dame)
5. Wesley Agonistes and the Calvinist Sublime: The Spiritual Ideals of the Early Evangelicals by Bruce Hindmarsh (Regent College)
6. Dispensational Modernism and the Scofield Reference Bible by Brendan Pietsch (PhD cand., Duke University)
7. Blessed Assurance: Faith and the American Prosperity Movement by Kate Bowler (PhD cand., Duke University)
8. The Religion of the Heart and the Rise of Global Christianity by David Hempton (Harvard Divinity School)

George Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at University of Notre Dame. His books include Fundamentalism and American Culture, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism, The Soul of the American University, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, and Jonthan Edwards: A Life.

Roger Lundin is Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College. He is the author of The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World, Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief, and The Promise of Hermeneutics (with Anthony C. Thiselton and Clarence Walhout).

Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College since 1979. He is Co-founder and present director of the Institute of American Evangelicals at Wheaton. He is a visiting teacher at Harvard Divinity School, University of Chicago Divinity School, Westminster Theological Seminary and Regent College. He is the author of numerous books including A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992), The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism (2005). Phd (Vanderbilt University).

David Hempton PhD (University of St. Andrews) is Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, formerly University Professor at Boston University's School of Theology. Selected as Boston University's scholar/teacher of the year in 2004. His book Methodism: Empire of the Spirit(Yale university Press, 2005), has been awarded the Jesse Lee Prize in American Methodist History.

Bruce Hindmarsh is the James Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Dr. Hindmarsh was a Pew research fellow at Oxford University from 1995-1997. He is author of John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversion of Wesley and Wilberforce.

David Ceri Jones BA Ph.D. (Wales), FRHistS, has a wide range of research interests in early modern and eighteenth-century Wales, the British Isles and the wider Atlantic world.

Andrea Sterk is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida and has previously taught at Notre Dame University. She has written Renouncing the World yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity.

William Young, the author of the best seller The Shack, joins Regent Faculty to talk about his book and its implications for the church and/or the Kingdom of God. What are the books strengths and what are the it's weaknesses.

William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among the native tribes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea by his missionary parents. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Jonathan R. Wilson (Ph. D, Duke) is Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College. Before joining the Carey faculty in 2006, he was Professor of Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College and Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont College. Among his books are Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World, God So Loved the World: A Christology for Disciples, A Primer for Christian Doctrine, and Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry, and Mission in Practice

Darrell W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College. Before accepting this appointment he served for 30 years as Preaching Pastor for churches in the United States and the Philippines. He continues to preach regularly around the world.

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John G. Stackhouse, Jr. is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College. He is the author of Can God Be Trusted? and Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character.

Richard Higginson is a lecturer in Ethics and Leadership and Director of the Ridley Hall Foundation at Ridley Hall Theological College at Cambridge.

For most people work matters. It takes up a lot of our time, it absorbs much of our energy, and it has a major effect on our wellbeing. So why do so many local churches take little or no interest in it? This course explores why work matters to God, and sets out a balanced theological framework for connecting faith with work, integrating the themes of creation, fall, redemption and our future hope. The course will help practising businesspeople and other Christian professionals to make connections between what they believe and what they do in everyday life. It will also help ministers and pastors who would like to be better equipped to support the 'workers' in their congregations.

The book of 2 Corinthians is the most self-disclosing of all of Paul's letters. This letter lifts the lid off the challenges and complexities of the pastoral ministry of the mature apostle and that in the contemporary church. In this letter he integrates the nature of the Christian life with the realities of Christian ministry. Paul discusses the effects of a recent life-threatening experience and reveals how a sense of personal inadequacy in the face of the present difficulties has been matched be God's comfort, grace and power. He writes about this to a congregation that is not amenable to his return. These lectures will benefit those who are preparing for pastoral ministry by helping them to understand the interior nature of Paul's later life and ministry for their own edification and support.

Bruce Winter is Warden at Tyndale House, Cambridge. He has written many articles on Pauline issues, especially regarding First Corinthians, and a number of books, including After Paul Left Corinth, and Seek the Welfare of the City.

This series examines some of the ways in which evangelical religious experiences, especially those of conversion, worship, witness and community, have been portrayed in twentieth-century fiction. Maxine Hancock takes a look at sympathetic and unsympathetic representations, considering a range of "angles of vision" on the part of writers and works, focusing her attention in particular on Canadian and American writers of the second half of the century.

Maxine Hancock is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her other books are several on family relationships, including Living on Less and Liking in More, Re-evaluating Your Commitments, and Creative, Confident, Children. And notably, her work on Bunyan in A Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives.

This course seeks to explore the mystery and opportunity today's young people present to those called to youth ministry. Students explore various models of youth ministry, the essentials of effective leadership training, the recruitment of volunteer leaders, the balance leadership and management, and effect versus effecient leadership.

Dan Jessup is Regional Director of Pikes Peak Region, Young Life and Adjunct Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been a national speaker for Youth Specialties since 1996 and has spoken to thousands of youth and adults all over the world.

These lectures were recorded at Tyndale College & Seminary (formerly the Ontario Bible College/Ontario Theological Seminary), located in Toronto, ON.

Victor A. Shepherd is Professor of Historical Theology and Chair of Wesley Studies at Tyndale College & Seminary, Toronto. He is author of Seasons of Grace, So Great a Cloud of Witnesses, Ponder and Pray, Making Sense of Christian Faith, and The Nature and Function of Faith in the Theology of John Calvin.

This is an audio book version of the book read by the author (It is also available in MP3 format). It chronicles the journey of Paul Beckingham from a horrendous accident through suffering and grace to hope.

Audio Book format is compatible with Apple iTunes and any software/hardware which recognizes this format. The main advantage of Audio Book format is that the player recognizes where the user last stopped playing and starts at that point rather then at the beginning of the audio track.

Paul Beckingham Dmin(Carey), Mdiv(Regent), Bed (London University) is Assistant Professor in Church and Mission at Carey. Paul received his Doctor of Ministry from Carey (2001) through researching Traumatic Brain Injury: Implications for Appropriate Pastoral Ministry Interventions. Paul has served on the executive of the London City Mission in the United Kingdom, developing a young adult's residential training program in Urban Mission, and was influential in expanding urban ministry initiatives in Nairobi, Kenya through pastors in the Africa Brotherhood Church. A former pastor, Paul exercises gifts in preaching, administration and music, with a commitment to the church and mission. His award winning articles on spirituality and mission appear in the Christian press and he has published Walking Towards Hope: Experiencing Grace in a Time of Brokenness.

Stanley J. Grenz was the Pioneer McDonald Professor of Baptist Heritage, Theology and Ethics at Carey Theological College. He was a former Baptist pastor and author of numerous books including Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective, The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics, and Theology for the Community of God.

A Chapel Talk from the Winter of 2005.

R. Paul Stevens is Professor Emeritus of Marketplace Theology at Regent College. He is the author of Liberating the Laity, Disciplines of the Hungry Heart, The Other Six Days, Marriage Spirituality, Doing God's Business and co-editor (with Robert J. Banks) of The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity.

The letters to the Thessalonians open an exciting and challenging door into a newly-planted church in the mid-first century. Depending consciously on the same Spirit who inspired these letters we aim to expound carefully and thoughtfully through the text, keeping to its many points of interface with our time.... What does an authentic church look like? Who is Jesus? What can happen when the Gospel really gets released?

This course looks at the ethical material in the books of the New Testament from the perspective of the ancient biographical approach of following and imitating Jesus in both his ethical teaching and his gracious welcome to sinners. How might such an approach help us to use the New Testament in ethics today? It is hoped that students will gain new insights from this for applying biblical material to contemporary moral debates.

Richard Burridge is Dean of King's College London and he also lectures in New Testament Studies. His first post was as a classics teacher, before combining theological training for ordination with a doctorate on Gospel genre. He appears regularly to comment on theology and church affairs on TV and other media.

This course challenges the student to both reflect and respond to some of the critical issues (current trends and hotspots; the multiple faces of globalization; the future of Christianity in a global flux) that emerge from the world's rapidly changing landscape. The course examines these issues in relation to their impact on Christian mission and cross-cultural missions in reference to the globalized Church of Christ.

William Taylor has broad experience in church planting and pastoral ministry. For 17 years he taught at the Central American Theological Seminary in Guatemala and serves today as a visiting professor in seminaries and missionary training schools in North America and internationally.

This is an advanced course in the neglected art of oral truth telling. Using the tools of an actor and exegete, students imaginatively see what those eyewitnesses saw and say what they meant. This is not 'pretending' in the way most people think of an actor playing a role. Students play themselves as if they had witnessed the event, telling it in their natural voice, using the exact words of scripture from memory.

Bruce Kuhn is an actor previously on Broadway in Les Miserables, and now tours his one-person performances to universities, churches and conferences across North America and Europe.

This course, offered during Spring School 2003, aims to introduce the student to the Book of Proverbs and to apply the book's wisdom to specific areas of life. The introduction will consider among other things the sage's epistemology; a definition of his terms "wisdom," "fear of the Lord," "Woman Wisdom," and his theory of religious education.

The course will also consider the book's structure, its doctrine of health, wealth, and prosperity, and its connection to the wisdom of Jesus Christ. The book's wisdom will be specifically applied to communication/speech, wealth/money, marriage/husband and wife, parenting, and friendship.

Bruce Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of Genesis: A Commentary, Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, and commentaries on Micah. He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

V. Philips Long joined Regent College in the Fall of 2000 after teaching at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri for 15 years years. After receiving his MDiv from Gordon-Conwell, Phil served for four years with Greater Europe Mission in Germany as a lecturer in Biblical Languages and Old Testament Exegesis. He obtained his PhD at Cambridge and has also studied at the University of Heidelberg and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of many books including The Art of Biblical History.

"Spirituality" has been a hot topic over the past few years. This series explores a specific type or model of Christian spirituality practised by Christians living from roughly the third to the seventh centuries CE. How, for example, did these early Christians pray? What was their understanding of Christian character? Who were the "desert fathers?" How can the insights of these early Christians be translated into the context of the modern world? These and other questions and issues are addressed.

Christopher A. Hall is dean of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvannia where he has been teaching in the biblical and theological studies program. He is also associate editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: The Gospel of Mark (with Thomas C. Oden), Reading the Scriptures with the Fathers, and Studying Theology with the Church Fathers.

This is a chapel talk from the fall of 2008.

Jennie McLaurin is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Dean of Students at Regent College. In addition to bioethics, Jennie is interested in bridging understanding between science and faith. She lives in northwest Washington State with her husband, Andrew, and their five children.

This course explores the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. It considers capitalism both as an economic system and as arguably the dominant ideology of our age. The course is designed to meet four major objectives for students:

1. To develop a deeper understanding of capitalist economic thought and its historical and ideological origins in both the Enlightenment and the Christian faith;
2. To appreciate how compelling the logic of capitalism is even in the face of the widespread criticism that has been directed at it in recent times;
3. To explore the ways in which capitalism functions ideologically in modern culture and as such seeks to colonize and influence all areas of culture, beyond the commercial realm, including the church, the family and the polity;
4. To consider and develop what a transformative engagement of the gospel with modern capitalism might be.

Paul Williams (BA, MA, MSc (Oxford), MCS (Regent College)) is David J Brown Family Associate Professor of Marketplace Theology and Leadership at Regent College.He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to DTZ Holdings, an international real estate consulting and investment banking group. He came to Regent from his most recent role as Chief Economist and Head of International Research for DTZ.

Over recent decades evangelicals have been recovering their commitment to the created world. In this course we examine the causes and practical consequences of a renewed relationship to all that God has made. We review some of the essential biblical foundations, and we look at the significance, distinctives and challenges of the growing, world-wide, Christian involvement in the care of creation. We also consider its implications for how we build human communities, and we will endeavour to work in an interactive fashion, making ourselves as available as possible outside class hours for discussion. As in previous years, it will be our hope that participants in the course can consider the missional possibilities for their own lives, taking full account of the places and times in which they find themselves.

Peter Harris is International Co-ordinator for the A Rocha Trust, an international Christian organization working in conservation.

Miranda Harris CertEd (Homerton College, Cambridge) is a Founder of the international conservation organization A Rocha.

Isaiah is a massive book and certainly one of the most influential works in the canon. One can hardly hope, however, to cover it in depth in a single semester. The aims of this course are therefore:
a. primarily, to acquaint students with the leading themes of the multifaceted message of Isaiah, noting in particular both their continuity and development throughout, and thereby providing students with a sense of the unity and diversity of material within the overall purpose of the book;
b. to assist students in understanding the relevance of the various Isaianic concerns to the life of the people of God in the contemporary world and in so doing to highlight ways in which the book can be preached both in the church and the world.
c. secondarily, when the occasion arises to articulate the theological contribution of Isaiah to the NT by examining the ways in which numerous Isaianic texts have profoundly shaped the message of NT authors (e.g. Isa 6 in the Gospels and Acts; the use of the so-called Messianic prophecies), and to discuss the problems related thereto.

Rikk E. Watts is Professor of New Testament at Regent College. He is author of a recently published book on the use of Isaiah in the Gospel of Mark entitled Isaiah's New Exodus and Mark.
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Note: This series is also available in a complete set: Biblical Theology and complementary subset Biblical Theology: New Testament

Bruce K. Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College. He is the author of Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God, and co-author of An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (with M. O'Conner). He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

Bruce Waltke is Professor Emeritus in Old Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of Genesis: A Commentary, Creation and Chaos, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, and commentaries on Micah. He also served on the translation committee of the NIV Bible.

Regent College's XXXVI convocation ceremony for students graduating in 2006.

What kind of texts are we dealing with in Genesis, and what difference should this make to our interpretation of them? Are they myth, or history, or both/neither? Have Christians been right to see what they have seen in these books over the centuries? What are the boundaries of legitimate interpretation? What does Genesis have to say to contemporary Christians and their world? These and other similar questions will provide the focus for our exegetical study of portions of the text.

Iain W. Provan is the E. Marshall Shepherd Professor of Biblical Studies (Old Testament) at Regent College. He has authored commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes & Song of Songs, and Lamentations, as well as numerous scholarly articles.

A discussion of Luther's 'Theologia Crucis' (Theology of the Cross). In the image of the cross, the world perceives shame, weakness, folly, condemnation, sin and death. Victor Shepherd contrasts the world's perceptions of the cross with the truth revealed as the consummate event of God's glory, strength, wisdom, acquittal, righteousness and life. He distinguishes 'theologia crucis' from a 'theologia gloriae', and elaborates the implications of a 'theologia crucis'.

Victor A. Shepherd is Professor of Historical Theology and Chair of Wesley Studies at Tyndale College & Seminary, Toronto. He is author of Seasons of Grace, So Great a Cloud of Witnesses, Ponder and Pray, Making Sense of Christian Faith, and The Nature and Function of Faith in the Theology of John Calvin.

Mark Buchanan, a pastor and author, lives with his wife and three children on Vancouver Island. His current titles are Your God is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control and Things Unseen Living in the Light of Forever.

In search for global harmony, we encounter the problem of religious diversity. This study seeks to address two essential questions: How can we realte Christian faith and experience to other religions in a way that takes account of the 'fact' of Christ as well as the 'fact' of religions? Can the decisiveness of Christ be affirmed in a way that also makes room for a reasonable explanation of the religious experience of people of other faiths?

Africa has been described as a continent in chaos. HIV finds more victims there than anywhere else, government corruption is lengendary and tribalism resists modernity. Poverty, food supply, ecological indifference, illiteracy, and the danger of public dissent round out a short roster of problems facing the fifty-four nations below the Sahara. Is there a role for responsible media, publicaly minded journalism, in this place? Could a revival of public media there sharpen our own media here?

Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication at Calvin College. He is co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, Good News: Social Ethics and the Press, and Popular Magazines of the United States
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Roy Bell is Professor Emeritus of Family Ministries at Carey/Regent College. He is co-author (with Stanley Grenz) of Betrayal of Trust: Sexual Misconduct in the Pastorate.