FTESEA News
75th ANNIVERSARY
OF FTESEA TO BE CELEBRATED IN 2012
At its 2009 annual meeting,
the FTESEA Board of Trustees began planning for the celebration
of FTESEA's 75th anniversary in 2012. The Board has requested
FTESEA partners Nanjing Union Theological Seminary, China Christian
Council, ATESEA, ETE/WCC and Ecumenical Institute Bossey to organize
seminars to reflect on their partnership with FTESEA in the past
several decades. A concluding consultation and celebration will
be held in USA in 2012 to reflect on the findings of consultations/seminars
organized by the FTESEA partners and plan future partnership engagements
in theological education in China and South East Asia.
It was also suggested the FTESEA prepare a Memorial book with
photographs and brief write ups on selected significant accomplishments
to be highlighted as part of the celebration.
We would like to invite all the FTESEA community members to extend
their cooperation in all the above suggested programs. Please
send photographs, write ups and suggestions to the Executive Director
Dr. H.S. Wilson to make the reflection and celebration a learning
and motivating experience for all concerned.
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LIBRARIAN TRAINING
FUNDS AVAILABLE
Librarian training
is an important priority for the Foundation for Theological Education
in South East Asia. At its 2009 annual meeting, the FTESEA voted
to set aside $5,000 each year for support of scholarships and
training workshops for individuals working at theological libraries
in China and South East Asia.
Applicants for scholarship
and workshop funds should be associated with one of the CCC related
seminaries or ATESEA member schools. Scholarship funds will be
granted with the proviso that the individual agrees to continue
working at his/her home institution for at least two years following
completion of the supported course(s). To apply for scholarship
support, the individual's sponsoring institution should contact
Dr. H.S. Wilson, Executive Director of the FTESEA, to obtain a
grant request form (ftewilson@gmail.com).
As funds permit, the FTESEA will also provide support for archives
and library workshops, with preference given to events that are
collaborative across regions and institutions. The librarian training
programs and workshops supported by this initiative must take
place in Asia.
If you have questions,
please contact Dr. H.S. Wilson or Martha Smalley, chair of the
FTESEA Library Development Task Group (martha.smalley@yale.edu).
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BOOK EDITED BY DR.
MARVIN D. HOFF
The following book
edited by Honorary Trustee Marvin D. Hoff has recently been published:
Chinese Theological
Education: 1979 to 2006. Hoff, Marvin D. (ed). Grand Rapids:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009. (hardcover). $49.00.
Marvin D. Hoff, the
former Executive Director of the Foundation for Theological Education
in South East Asia, has recently published Chinese Theological
Education: 1979 to 2006.
The book offers insight
into the emergence of the Christian church after Mao's Cultural
Revolution. While reports of Communist oppression have dominated
American perceptions of church and state in China, this is an
increasingly dangerous view as China changes. Dr. Marvin D. Hoff,
as executive director for the Foundation for Theological Education
in Southeast Asia, traveled at least annually to China for the
period covered by this book. The original reports of his encounters
with Chinese Christians, especially those involved in theological
education, are a historic record of the church's growth-and growing
freedom. Interspersed with Hoff's account are reports and essays
by Chinese and other Asian Christians. Introductory essays are
provided by Charles W. Forman of Yale Divinity School, Daniel
H. Bays of Calvin College and Donald J. Bruggink of Western Theological
Seminary.
The book can be ordered
from: Dr. Marvin D. Hoff, 21236 Barth Pond Lane, Crest Hill, IL
60403. The cost is $25 prepaid with an additional $6 for mailing
costs to the USA.
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Now available:
BOOK BY REV. DR.
AIMING WANG
Church in China:
Faith, Ethics, Structure
The Heritage of the Reformation for the Future of the Church in
China
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford,
Wien, 2009. 590 pp.
European University Studies: Series 23, Theology. Vol. 890
ISBN 978-3-03911-814-4 pb.
Click
here for
an order form.
Aiming Wang is Dean
and Vice President of the Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and
Vice Director of the Committee of Theological Education of the
China Christian Council. In 2008, he received his doctoral degree
in Systematic Theology/Ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland
and his doctor honoris causafrom the University of Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
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HONORARY TRUSTEE
KOSUKE KOYAMA
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The FTESEA mourns
the passing of Honorary Trustee Kosuke Koyama.
For details,
please see the press
release from Union Theological Seminary.
Please
click here for tributes to Prof. Koyama from FTESEA
Board members and partners.
Prof. Koyama
was a pioneer Asian theologian. During his decades of ministry
as theological educator and ecumenical leader Koyama mentored
and inspired a large number of students, ministers, theologians
and theological educators all over the globe. His legacy
will continue through them and many others who have benefited
from his writings and lectures.
H.S. Wilson
Executive Director. FTESEA
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LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
TASK GROUP NEWS
During March 2009,
Vice-Chair Martha Smalley visited Nanjing Union Theological Seminary
and East China Seminary, and attended the Forum of Asian Theological
Librarians consultation held at Trinity Theological College, Singapore.
She visited the library at the new campus of NJUTS, which is expected
to be in full operation by the end of March, and talked about
the library program with Librarian Rev. Wang Peng and Vice President
Gao Ying. In Shangai, she talked with Rev. Bao Jia Yuan about
a possible librarian training workshop in China and visited the
library of East China Seminary.
The Forum of Asian
Theological Librarians consultation was attended by over forty
librarians, who came from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand,
as well as representatives from library associations in the U.S.
U.K., Australia, and Europe. There were workshops on Library Automation,
Web Design, and Digital Librarianship led by ForATL members. Martha
presented a workshop on Archives Management.
See photos in the Photo
section.
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APPEAL FOR BOOKS
TO THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF FTESEA PARTNERS
September 10, 2008
Greetings to all the
well wishers of FTESEA. Here is a request from the Executive Committee
Task Group on Library Development.
Recognizing the need
to strengthen library collections at theological schools of FTESEA
partners, the FTESEA requests donations of theological books and
periodicals from faculty members and pastors in North America
(retired or in service), which could be shipped to seminaries
of FTESEA partners via the Theological Book Network's "Designated
shipment" program:
http://www.theologicalbooknetwork.org/designated.htm.
We would like to ask
you to share this information through your network with those
who are likely to be interested in sending their used books to
libraries in China and South East Asia theological seminaries.
Please contact Executive
Direction H. S. Wilson for more information: ftewilson@gmail.com
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