Seminars and Workshops 2008

Academics and Professions

Being Muslim in the United States
Lamin Sanneh, Yale Divinity School
July 14-August 1, 2008
Funded by The Louisville Institute and Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College

Teaching and Learning as Spiritual Disciplines
Frans van Liere, Calvin College and Dale M. Coulter, Regent University
July 21-25, 2008
Funded by the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin College and the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Congregations and Religious Diversity in Contemporary America
R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago
June 23-July 18, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Communitas: A Visiting Scholars Program
June 23-August 1, 2008
Funded by the
Provost's Office of Calvin College

Worship and Ministry

Christian Hymnody in Historical Perspective
Edith Blumhofer, Wheaton College
June 23-July 3, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Calvin Theological Seminary
July 7-18, 2008
Funded by the Center for Excellence in Preaching
at Calvin Theological Seminary 

From Text to Sermon
Frederick Dale Bruner, Fuller Theological Seminary
and Scott Hoezee, Calvin Theological Seminary
July 21-25, 2008
Funded by the Center for Excellence in Preaching
at Calvin Theological Seminary

The application deadline for all SCS events is January 31, 2008.

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Additional summer seminars and workshops at Calvin College:

Science, Philosophy, Belief:
A Seminar for Chinese Scholars
Del Ratzsch, Calvin College
and Michael Murray, Franklin and Marshall University
June 23-July 18, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department at Calvin College, the Society of Christian Philosophers, and the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College
Funded by the John Templeton Foundation
(This event is by invitation only.)

Singing for Fun: Polyphony Camp
Anne Heider, Roosevelt University
June 23-July 2, 2008
Please note that this event has been cancelled

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Seminars in Christian Scholarship
Calvin College
1855 Knollcrest Circle SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546-4402
616.526.8558
616.526.6682 fax
seminars@calvin.edu