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The Princeton Seminary Bulletin OCT 4 2006 '&OLOG : CAL Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library https://archive.org/details/princetonseminar2612prin THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN VOLUME XXVI NUMBER I NEW SERIES 2005 THE INAUGURATION AND INSTALLATION OF IAIN R. TORRANCE AS THE SIXTH PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Remarks Quisquilia Princetoniana GEORGE NEWLANDS A Prwer Blessed are You, Holy One, Friend of Humanity MICHAEL VASEY Addresses Faith in the Third Millennium: Reading Scripture Together Living Faith in a Challenging Era SETRI NYOMI Reading Scripture with Intensity: Academic, Ecclesial, Interfaith, and Divine DAVID FORD Reading Scripture Together in Sight of Our Open Doors PETER OCHS Reading Scripture Together: Towards a Sacred Hermeneutics of Togetherness AREF ALI NAYED A Charge Bet on the Church THOMAS W. GILLESPIE Inaugural Address Beyond Solipsism IAIN R. TORRANCE * * * Spring Convocation 2005 A Gauntlet With a Gift In’t CHARLES L. BARTOW Lectures Why Worry About Words? MARILYN C. MCENTYRE “Go and Do Likewise!” Toyohiko Kagawa’s Theology in the Periphery KOSUKE KOYAMA The Global Expansion of Radical Primitive Christianity DAVID MARTIN PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Iain R. Torrance, President BOARD OF TRUSTEES David M. Mace, Chair Clarence B. Ammons, Vice Chair Nancy Oliver Gray, Secretary Robert M. Adams C. Thomas Hilton Fred R. Anderson F. Martin Johnson M. Craig Barnes Justin M. Johnson Robert W. Bohl Thomas R. Johnson A. Allen Brindisi Todd B. Jones Amy Woods Brinkley Carlos D. Ledee Deena L. Candler James H. Logan, Jr. Martha Z. Carter Karen Turner McClellan Warren D. Chinn Kathy J. Nelson Gary O. Dennis Earl F. Palmer John H. Donelik William P. Robinson Michael G. Fisch Thomas J. Rosser Mary Lee Fitzgerald Thomas K. Tewell John T. Galloway, Jr. Virginia J. Thornburgh Francisco O. Garcia-Treto Paul E. Vawter, Jr. Joan I. Gotwals George B. Wirth Heather Sturt Haaga Jane C. Wright TRUSTEES EMERITI /AE Stewart B. Clifford William H. Scheide Peter E. B. Erdinan Arthur F. Sueltz Rosemary Hall Evans John M. Templeton Sarah Belk Gambrell William P. Thompson David H. Hughes Samuel G. Warr Johannes R. Krahmer David B. Watermulder Henry Luce III Ralph M. Wyman Young Pai LIBRARY OF PRINCETON 1 THE . * PRINCETON JUL 2 2 2005 SEMINARY BULLETIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY VOLUME XXVI NUMBER I NEW SERIES 2005 Stephen D. Crocco, EDITOR CONTENTS THE INAUGURATION AND INSTALLATION OF IAIN R. TORRANCE AS THE: SIXTH PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Remarks Quisquilia Princetoniana George Newlands 2 A Prayer Blessed are You, Holy One, Friend of Humanity Michael Vasey 8 Addresses Faith in The Third Millenium: Reading Scripture Together Living Faith in a Challenging Era Setri Nyomi 10 Reading Scripture with Intensity: Academic, Ecclesial, Interfaith, and Divine David F. Ford 22 Reading Scripture Together in Sight of Our Open Doors Peter Ochs 3 6 Reading Scripture Together: Towards a Sacred Hermeneutics of Togetherness ArefAli Nayed 48 A Charge Bet on the Church Thomas W. Gillespie 55 Inaugural Address Beyond Solipsism Iain R. Toirance 59 * * * Spring Convocation 2005 A Gauntlet With a Gift In’t Charles L. Bartow 67 1 1 11 THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN Lectures Why Worry About Words? Marilyn C. McEntyre 74 “Go and Do Likewise!” Toyohiko Kagawa’s Theology in the Periphery Kosuke Koyama 89 The Global Expansion of Radical Primitive Christianity David Martin 1 1 ®20C>5 The Princeton Seminary Bulletin. The Princeton Seminary Bulletin is published three times annually by Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Each issue is mailed free of charge to all alumni/ae and, by agreement, to various institutions. Back issues are not available. All correspondence should be addressed to Stephen D. Crocco, Editor, The Princeton Seminary Bulletin , P.O. Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803; e-mail: [email protected]. edu. The Princeton Seminary Bulletin publishes lectures and sermons by Princeton Theo- logical Seminary faculty and administrators and presentations by guests on the Seminary campus. Therefore, we do not accept unsolicited material. This periodical is indexed in the ATT - Religion Database published by the Amer- , ican Theological Library Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., 16th Fir., Chicago, IL 60606; e-mail: [email protected], WWW:http:/Avww.atla.com/. Editor’s Note HIS ISSUE of the Princeton Seminary Bulletin highlights the inaugura- T tion and installation of Dr. Iain R. Torrance as the sixth president of Princeton Theological Seminary. Hundreds of people came to Princeton on March io and n to attend the festivities, which included a symposium on “Faith in the Third Millennium: Reading Scripture Together,” and a dinner to honor Iain, Morag, and their family. Well over a thousand people attended the inauguration and installation service in the Princeton University Chapel. The Seminary’s web site has pictures and descriptions of the festivities. Although the inaugural events have been at the center of attention these last few months, the usual convocations and lectures continue apace and some of them are printed here. Faithful readers of the Bulletin have surely noted the late arrival of this and the previous issue. This is due to several factors including my decision to delay the publication of the February issue so remarks and addresses from the inauguration and installation could be in- cluded. Unfortunately, the late appearance of the February issue will likely delay the publication of the July issue. It is my intention to return to a normal publication schedule by the time of the November issue. Stephen D. Crocco Editor [y> - Gem e Newlands is Professor Quisquilia Princetoniana 'S ofDivin- -1 ity at the University of Glasgow. He deliv- bv GEORGE NEWLANDS ered these remarks after the inauguration dinner at Doral Fonrestal on March to, 2005. r. Chairman, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, I’m not quite M sure why I’m doing this, and neither are you. What can I say, and how shall I say it? In a letter dated August 30, 1928 from West China, the Rev. Thomas Torrance wrote to T. F. Torrance: “Dear Tom, This is your fifteenth birthday. I’m glad you have made a start in public. Keep on. To begin with, if you can tell a short story or incident and pack into it a message and an appeal, you’ll find it easier to begin with and you’ll speak to more purpose than by confining yourself to abstract speech.” There’s a template! The suggestion that I should say something tonight came the day after Elizabeth and I arrived here last month, and it’s a great honor to be here. Before leaving London we called the registrar’s office to find the nearest airport to Princeton, and we arrived in LAX, on a fine sunny afternoon in late January. After a few days with our son and his wife in Westwood, California, we drove across to the Seminary', taking in a short detour to that archetypal Presbyterian festival, Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And so I stand before you tonight, a sheep in sheep’s clothing, a simple Southern Californian, which gives me the chance to say a word of personal thanks to a couple of real Californians. We met them again by accident a few months back when we all happened to be visiting Tom Torrance. To their great generosity, I and generations of our Glasgow Peter Marshall scholars are hugely indebted: Tom and Barbara Gillespie. When y'our new president invited me to speak my first concern was whether his health care package from the Trustees covered all unexpected risks. He seemed to indicate that was OK. I have been warned that all unpresbyterian allusions are strictly off limits on pain of instant deportation to a well known Cuban sports paradise. I have solemnly promised not even to mention words like . well I would have put this in, just to keep up the tradition. But I say' not a word tonight, for example, about the presidential infancy' narrative—and certainly nothing about my wife, his cousin’s possible role—she was a slightly older child than he was—in facilitating the adjustment of your President’s historic early sartorial arrangements—as in you will find the bahe wrapped in and ly'ing in. Cf. Kirchliche Dog/natik III/ 3.590-93^^, Das Kind in der Krippe, where even the patron saint of PTS himself can’t quite bring himself to utter the D word, or in English the N word, or in Switzerdeutsch the W word. In fact, to borrow QUISQUIL1A PRINCETON I ANA 3 a phrase from your former president, I think it was Mr. Clinton but it may have been Dr. Gillespie, I get confused between all these great Americans, in truth there was no, I mean there is no, semantically speaking diaper-changing- related circumstantial issue within the meaning of the act. What does one say at these times? In 1868 a Latin address was presented to James McCosh on his inauguration. Infandum 0 Princeps iubes renovare dolorem. Seminarii at opes et lamentabile regnum Eruerint Caledonii, quaeqtie ipse miserrima vidi, Et quorum pars magna fui. Quis talia fando, Hunsingerum , Vanhuyssteenumque , aut duri miles Jim Kayi Temperet a lacrimis— Et iam, nox umida caelo praecipitat Suadentque cadentia sidera somnos Sed si tantus amor casus cogioscere nostros , Et breviter collegiae supremum audire laborem Quanquam animus meminisse boiret, luctuque refigit , Incipiam. Et id jazz omne. Latin is important. In a letter dated March 7, 1928, Thomas Torrance wrote to his six children, “Make it a firm resolution to succeed in your Latin, if only for my sake, and I’ll be proud of you for ever.” On the other hand, if I say any more in Latin, it might provoke a retaliatory strike.
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