To: NATIONAL AND RELIGION EDITORS
LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In many regions of a church family, and some-more recently in renouned culture, a word "left behind" harkens images from baleful scripture. But what about a "left behind" in a book of Matthew?
Or what about farrago in a emergence of Christianity? Or pang and shelter in a letters of Paul?
These are among a questions explored in papers by Lexington Theological Seminary professors who presented their work this winter during inhabitant theological conferences. Dr. Jerry Sumney presented "Salvific Suffering in Paul: Eschatological, Vicarious, and Mimetic," during a annual meetings of a Society of Biblical Literature and a American Academy of Religion, that met concurrently in San Francisco. Dr. Wes Allen presented his paper, "Matthew's 'Left Behind'" during a Academy of Homiletics in Austin, Tex.
"One of a many ways that Lexington Theological Seminary serves a church is as a theological consider tank," pronounced LTS Vice President for Academic Affairs Richard Weis.
"Faculty members such as Professors Sumney and Allen offer a church by stability to examine a Scriptures for uninformed and applicable answers to a aged questions of a definition of pang and a inlet of a Christian hope. When they review papers on these subjects during inhabitant meetings of scholars, this gives them a possibility to sharpen, and exam a value of, their ideas. What they learn from reading Paul and Matthew with other experts during these meetings comes behind to a destiny pastors who investigate during LTS in a courses Professors Allen and Sumney learn here."
Weis remarkable that these practice also heighten classes LTS expertise offer in a Lay School of Theology, a array of Saturday courses offering to a public.
"Every time a member of a LTS expertise presents a paper or presides during a row in a inhabitant assembly of other theologians, a egghead vitality of Lexington Theological Seminary as a propagandize of a church is on arrangement for a universe to see and contributes to training distant over even the practical 'walls,'"said Weis.
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