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  LOUISVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUISVILLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Louisville Public Library was established in 1902, and 1904 acquired the library, the small museum (containing the Troost collection of minerals) and the art gallery of the Polytechnic Society of Louisville (1878), which for many years had maintained the only public library in the city.
Louisville is governed under a charter of 1893, which is in the form of an act of the state legislature for the government of cities of the first class (Louisville is the only city of the first class in the state).
In 1828 Louisville was chartered as a city; in 1851 it received a second city charter; in 1870, a third; and in 1893, a fourth.
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 Louisville - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louisville
Louisville was founded in 1778 and incorporated as a city in 1828.
Louisville became a well-established stop on the river route; the falls were by-passed by a canal in 1830, but the city remained a regional centre for westward migrants.
The city is the seat of the University of Louisville (1798), Spalding University (1814), Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1853), Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1858), and Bellarmine College (1950).
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 Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the economic focus of a large metropolitan area that extends across the Ohio River into Indiana and includes a great variety of industries.
In the 19th century Louisville was a leading commercial center for the developing South and Midwest, prospering first as a transshipment point around the Falls of the Ohio, and later as a river port after a canal was constructed around the falls in 1830.
Louisville was badly damaged by tornadoes in 1890 and 1974, and by a flood of the Ohio River in 1937.
www.thecityoflouisville.com   (727 words)

  
 Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Louisville Seminary's many grants, financial aid, and scholarship programs, coupled with personal financial planning, can greatly reduce financial stress for both the student and recent graduate.
Candidates are not required to be in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Louisville Seminary works to help students apply for these.
www.lpts.edu /Admissions/Financial_Aid.asp   (924 words)

  
 Seminary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A seminary is a specialised university-like institution for the purpose of training candidates for positions within a religious context.
A prominent example of this is the seminary education system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which provides extended study of theology and religious text throughout the school week, in addition to normal Sunday classes.
These types of seminaries schedule classes before or after regular school time, or negotiate agreed "release time" permits with the nearest public school districts to allow students to voluntarily leave school grounds for an allotted amount of time (usually one class period) to receive seminary education.
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 USATODAY.com - Protestant churches struggle to fill pulpits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
LOUISVILLE — While the worsening shortage of Catholic priests has been a matter of public concern for about three decades, Protestant leaders in the past five years have been anxiously discussing shortages in their own ranks.
Seminaries that once attracted "the best and the brightest" now "take almost all who apply, whether or not they show high promise for ministry," wrote Barbara Wheeler, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, which surveyed seminaries in 1998.
In many seminaries, the admission requirement became that "you had to have in range of a 98.6 temperature," said R. Robert Cueni, president of Lexington Theological Seminary.
www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2004-04-21-clergy-gns_x.htm   (1416 words)

  
 wfn.org | News of Theological Institutions
The evening is coordinated by the Session of the First Presbyterian Church and by Presbyterian Welcome, an association of 13 New York City area churches who oppose the recent constitutional change within the denomination that prevents the ordination of gays and lesbians.
RICHMOND, Va.-Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education has exceeded its $31 million fund raising goal a year ahead of schedule, according to a recent announcement by Louis B. Weeks, the campaign president.
The two Hyde Park seminaries, long-term partners, have appointed a committee to study how the schools might benefit from the proposed arrangement while preserving their institutional identities.
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 Costen dies
He was one of the drafters of the Open Letter to the PCUSA by leading African-American Presbyterians in early 1998, which called for the Unity in Diversity conferences and which asked the church not to practice the same discrimination against sexual minorities that it had against them.
LOUISVILLE - The Rev. James H. Costen, a prominent Presbyterian educator and church leader, died on April 11 in an Atlanta, GA, hospital.
Costen was the moderator of the 194th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA (UPCUSA), the northern church, in 1982, when it merged with the southern branch, the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) to form the Presbyterian Church (USA).
www.covenantnetwork.org /costen.html   (946 words)

  
 Presbyterian Creedal Standards
After the two largest streams of Presbyterianism in the United States reunited to form the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1983 a committee was appointed to draft a confession that would briefly summarize our faith.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) symbol and seal are used by permission of the Presbynet webmaster.
Presbyterian Creeds: a guide to the book of confessions; The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, PA; 1985; and its supplement, Presbyterian Creeds: supplement on a brief statement of faith; ibid.
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 Presbyterian Yellow Pages: Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lakeside Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a member of the Presbytery of Cincinnati, part of the Presbyterian Synod of the Covenant.
Beechmont Presbyterian Church is located in the heart of the south Louisville KY community near the intersection of Ashland Avenue and Southern Parkway next to the fire house.
The Central Presbyterian Church of Owensboro, Kentucky, is composed of all those who profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and with their children have chosen the tradition and government of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America as the most acceptable means of making that profession effective.
www.rcpp.presbychurch.org /pyp-ky.shtml   (3656 words)

  
 Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Considering the high percentage of the respondents who hold religious degrees, it appears that seminaries may believe that students' academic challenges are not an "education issue" but one of theology.
These results could suggest an artificial representation of what is happening in our seminaries as I believe that this question was very widely interpreted: for one participant the Academic Dean helping a student with a paper was considered "formal" while other responders interpreted "formal" as a dedicated Center that works with many students.
Several schools maintained that their seminaries didn't "have any students with learning disabilities." This may be more of a case of a "don't ask don't tell" environment than a lack of students with disabilities.
lpts.edu /Academic_Resources/ASC/Statistics_Analysis.asp   (1687 words)

  
 seminary - Articles about seminary
The venerable Union Theological Seminary in New York, in dire financial straits a few years ago, topped its fired-raising goal of $39 million in cash,......
Financially struggling Union Theological Seminary in New York his signed a pact with neighboring Columbia University transferring the ownership of its......
Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary and the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University have been fully accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Maxwell ended his service at the seminary in 1984 and was succeeded in 1985 by Jack L. Stotts, a native of Dallas, who had come from the presidency of McCormick Seminary in Chicago.
Austin Seminary is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Among graduates of the seminary who became missionaries abroad was John Walker Vinson (class of 1906), who was killed by bandits in China in November 1931.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/iwa2.html   (927 words)

  
 Christian News - The Christian Post | Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Installs Eighth President
The Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS) inaugurated its eighth president, the Rev. Dean K. Thompson, at its campus in Louisville, KY on April 23.
The Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, the stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was also present at the inauguration, which was held in the seminary chapel to certify the denomination's approval for the new presidential candidate.
The seminary is dedicated to integrating "practical experience with academic and theological study" through its pioneering field education program and renown for its marriage and family therapy program, which is one of the nation's only two such accredited, seminary-based programs.
www.christianpost.com /article/education/780/section/louisville.presbyterian.theological.seminary.installs.eighth.president/1.htm   (757 words)

  
 Grawemeyer Award
H. Charles Grawemeyer 1912-1993 Charles Grawemeyer was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1912 to immigrant German parents.
I want the seminary to be part of the religion award." The Grawemeyer Foundation, the University of Louisville and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary promptly began to shape the prize.
The Grawemeyer Foundation is housed at the University of Louisville.
www.louisville.edu /ur/onpi/grawemeyer   (2058 words)

  
 The Battle of Lexington and Wilmore - Christianity Today Magazine
Seminaries supply many of the leaders and entrepreneurs in the religious marketplace, along with the competing theologies that are their stock in trade.
In theory, this was an excellent direction for a seminary of its kind to take: In the 1980s the seminary dropped the requirement that faculty be Protestant and added programs in Roman Catholic studies, a Jewish lectureship, and an Islamic center.
The attempt to make ecumenical theology the new identity of Lexington Seminary was so costly to the school's competitive position that it took something akin to a coup to redirect the seminary back toward the center.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2002/003/1.46.html   (2421 words)

  
 Graduate Programs at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
The Master of Divinity Double Competency degree program at Louisville Seminary is designed to meet the needs of people who seek to be fully accredited and authorized to practice in an additional profession as well as the ministry.
The Master of Arts in Religion degree program at Louisville Seminary is a two-year, advanced humanities program designed to meet the needs of people who do not plan to enter ordained ministry, yet who desire to bring a spiritual dimension to their lives, educational background, and work.
Louisville Seminary's Master of Arts in Religion degree can help the students address society's needs as well as his or her own needs to offer spiritual direction in a secular setting.
schools.gradschools.com /graduate-schools/Louisville-Pres-Sem.html   (506 words)

  
 Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Seminary encourages students to begin and complete the core requirements of one degree program before beginning the other.
For Louisville Seminary, the student may be awarded the MDiv degree upon completion of work in both degree programs.
A final integrative examination will be held during the final semester of the student’s enrollment in the dual degree program, and will be conducted by faculty of the Kent School of Social Work and Louisville Seminary.
www.louisville.edu /kent/Students/sswdiv.htm   (404 words)

  
 wfn.org | [PCUSANEWS] Seminaries play fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The "Seminary Fair" was a perfect venue for seminary alums and prospective students to mix and chat.
Kerry Rice, director of admissions at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, said graduates were checking in to see what's new at their respective alma maters.
Craig Howard, director of recruitment and admissions for McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, said he was fielding lots of inquiries about his institution's degree programs.
www.wfn.org /2004/07/msg00047.html   (204 words)

  
 LTSP - Dr. Stephen Ray (3/05)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
While in seminary, "I fell in love" with the study of systematic theology, he says.
H. Wilson, occupant of the H. George Anderson Chair of Mission and Cultures and director of the seminary's Multicultural Mission Resource Center; the Rev. Wil Gafney, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Scriptures and Homiletics; the Rev. Nelson Rivera, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Latino Concentration, and the Rev. Dr.
Prior to accepting the LTSP position, which also designates him the program director of the seminary's Urban Theological Institute, Ray taught at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary for six years.
www.ltsp.edu /news/2004-2005/0503ray.html   (883 words)

  
 Theology Department: Bellarmine University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Louisville is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville and the national center for the Presbyterian Church USA.
The Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary are close to the Bellarmine campus, and St. Meinrad School of Theology and Benedictine Abbey is in the region.
There are ample opportunities for ecumenical and interfaith dialogue and for theological and spiritual growth in the area.
www.bellarmine.edu /cas/departments/theology/degreerequirements/2003-2005_masters_of_arts_in_spirituality.asp   (253 words)

  
 University Archives & Records Center Archives-Related Links
The Louisville Civil War Round Table, a nonprofit organization for the purpose of studying all aspects of the American Civil War and to promote the interchange of knowledge about it.
Louisville Historical League, a nonprofit corporation devoted to the historical and cultural heritage of Louisville, Jefferson County, and southern Indiana.
Bellarmine University, Spalding University, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary also possess primary historical resources pertaining to their history and that of related groups.
library.louisville.edu /uarc/otherres.htm   (714 words)

  
 The Faculty: Biblical Department, Lewis R. Donelson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The recipient of the University of Chicago Divinity School Fellowship and the Fielding Lewis Walker Fellowship of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Dr. Donelson has also served as president of the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Donelson is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a member of Arkansas Presbytery.
Austin Seminary is an institution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
www.austinseminary.edu /faculty/donelson.html   (190 words)

  
 Recovering: Chapter XX
from Westminster Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. in New Testament from the University of Cambridge, England.
He is a graduate of the College of Charleston, SC (A.B.) and Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M., Th.D.) and has done graduate study in Edinburgh, Scotland, University of Basil, Switzerland, and Southern Methodist Seminary in Dallas.
An ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in America, he is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A.), and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (Ph.D.).
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 WHAS11.com | Louisville Kentucky | Marketplace
BELLE OF LOUISVILLE (401 W. River Road, 574-2992) Originally christened the Idlewild in 1914, the Belle of Louisville is one of only six steam-powered riverboats still operating in America today.
The seminary’s chapel, which seats 350, is nearby.
The club presents a spectacular panoramic view of the city of Louisville for receptions, rehearsal dinners, bridal luncheons — or an intimate dinner for the bride and groom.
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 wfn.org | [PCUSANEWS] Assembly confirms 2 seminary presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Note #8375 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS: Assembly confirms 2 seminary presidents GA04081 June 30, 2004 Assembly confirms 2 seminary presidents by Bill Lancaster RICHMOND, June 30 - The General Assembly approved the appointments of two seminary presidents Wednesday: Iain R. Torrance of Princeton Theological Seminary, and Dean K. Thompson of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
"I am here primarily because I believe that Princeton Theological Seminary has enormous potential to do good in the world." "What I have learned in my few days here (at the Assembly) is that as a church you face similar issues to those with which I am familiar," he said.
Our congregations have been (conditioned) to believe that theological education is one of our most remarkable Presbyterian strengths." Thompson has served in parish ministry in West Virginia, California, Texas, and, most recently, West Virginia, where he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Charleston.
www.wfn.org /2004/07/msg00005.html   (310 words)

  
 A New Alliance Council - Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Inc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He is also Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS), where he had served as Chairman of the Department of Systematic Theology, and the John R. Richardson Professor of Theology.
Duncan’s wife Anne (Furman University, BA; Gordon-Conwell Seminary, MRE; Reformed Theological Seminary, MA) is an accomplished Christian Educator in her own right, and is the loving mother of their daughter, Sarah Kennedy, and son, Jennings.
from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in ecclesiastical theology from Cambridge University.
www.christianity.com /partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID307086|CHID559376|CIID1912950,00.html   (928 words)

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