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NL 03-11 Version1 Formerly Faculté Libre de Théologie Réformée NEWSLETTER Spring 2011 La Faculté Jean Calvin: what’s in a name ? speaks today, in an age when faith and personhood is at a premium. His view of When an institution decides on a religion seem to baffle many people. the divine covenant covers integrity in change of name after 40 years, there Calvin’s thought is as relevant to our creation, the darkness of man’s plight has to be a good reason. We chose the time as it was to his. and the light of the promises of the name Jean Calvin to show we are sovereign God. Calvin was not afraid to committed to his theology and the John Calvin went back to the original apply the covenantal revelation to the cause of worldwide Calvinism. texts of Scripture and defied the complex realities of his time. interpretations of the Roman Catholic Our former name, with its reference to Church and its authority. With great Finally, is it not appropriate that a reformed theology , conveys nothing in courage he took on its whole monolithic French Seminary should bear the name France today, a country that lacks any authoritarian structure. Book IV of his of our own John Calvin who was born in theological culture. At best it means Institutes is a manifesto in favour of Picardy? Our purpose is to train young little more than an alternative to Roman religious freedom. He advocated the men and women for service of different Catholicism. principle of semper reformanda to say kinds in the churches in the French- the church should be biblically defined speaking world. Calvin would have Does the name Jean Calvin convey and remain faithful to the spirit of the approved that goal! “Send us wood and anything more? Perhaps not. The Lord Jesus Christ. In 2000 years of we will make arrows” he is reported to Reformation is not part of the history church history few have shown such have said. Today in France we need syllabus in schools. The world-famous commitment. nothing more than darts to the heart Reformer was largely unknown in with the gospel of Christ. contemporary France, at least until the There is yet another reason for our Calvin anniversary in 2009 made some Extracts from the speech of change of name. In the modern world small waves. Rev. Pascal Geoffroy, president of the we are subjected to upheavals in Board of trustees at the official society, the confrontation of cultures The choice of his name is above all a inauguration of the name Faculté Jean and a pervasive mind-numbing media. way of recognizing the importance of Calvin on 19 th February 2011. Personal dignity is in danger. In Calvin’s Calvin and his work. We owe him a debt work, written at the dawn of modernity, of gratitude. Calvin got to grips with the we find a biblical world-view with religious and theological problems of his applications to all areas of life, in which time, but his biblical theology still Newsletter - Faculté Jean Calvin Continuity in change There has been a Protestant seminary in Aix-en-Provence since 1940. The first, called the Faculty of Protestant Theology , was the seminary of the Evangelical Reformed Church . The first Dean of this Faculté was Professor André Lamorte. The Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse of Philadelphia was a great supporter. Several of the teachers came from Holland. After 20 years of activity it closed as the church was unable to sustain its needs. The second, the Faculty of Reformed Theology , was opened in 1974, on a different basis. It had an independent board of trustees, all of whom adhered to the French confession of faith ( La Rochelle ). The first Dean of this new seminary was the Rev. Pierre Courthial, followed by Pierre Berthoud. The President of the board was Pierre Filhol. Edmund Clowney of Westminster Seminary and Jochum Douma of Kampen were early collaborators. Peter Jones and William Edgar who later went to Westminster West and East were among the teachers. In 2010 the seminary changed its name but there was no change in its confessional basis, project or structure. Pascal Geoffroy is the President of the Board, Kim Tran the Administrative Director and Paul Wells Academic Dean. New plaque inaugurated on 19 th February 2011 Professors and the librarian Left to right : Frédéric HAMANN, Donald COBB, Yannick IMBERT, Paul WELLS, Aline DIELEMAN (librarian), Ronald BERGEY, Michel JOHNER New translation in modern French of A great place to study ! Calvin's Institutes done by Paul Wells and Marie de Védrines and published by Editions Excelsis (2009) Page 2 The Seminary also has enthusiastics distance students Pastor in Belgium Even when I was a teenager my However, God hadn’t finished practical knowledge the word family teased me about with me. I came to understand of God brings day by day. becoming a pastor, though for that to live a Christian life to the me it seemed impossible. I was full I had to obey His call, and so Emmanuel COULON even rather hostile to the idea. I found myself studying 3rd year distance student Why should I study theology theology in Aix-en-Provence, when God had given me good very unsure of myself. gifts in the scientific field? That Once I had taken the step of was the excuse I made for trusting in God, he opened nearly 20 years, every time I doors in unexpected ways and I was challenged about my became a pastor, more and calling. I was an engineer, I had more certain that I had made a family, and nothing seemed to the right choice. Among other give. things I found I had grown to love studying theology and the Pastor in Lyon When I had just finished my lots of lessons have to be most demanding job in the second year of distance studies learned by experience, world! I was asked to take on the sometimes painfully. The ups pastoral charge in a church in and downs of my ministry have Alexandre SARRAN Lyon. I had been involved in this convinced me that the Lord’s 3rd year distance student work since it was first set up, work rests on age-old basics: but it was still a new church, prayer and faithful still very fragile. Six years later, proclamation of the word of I’m the father of 4 children and God. responsible for a growing Theological resources are Reformed Evangelical Church. essential, however. The Biblical The distance programme has theology taught at the Faculté helped me to juggle my ministry Jean Calvin meets my in the church, academic study expectations and equips me to and family responsibilities, and serve God and my fellow men. I after 9 years the end is in sight. pray that the seminary will It’s true that studying can never continue to train young men equip us thoroughly for real life; like me for the finest and the Pastor and manager of a Christian bookshop at Alès My traditional Catholic I started working with the to participate almost as fully as background didn’t help me to Mission when I was 24, the students on campus. find the truth or meaning in life, managing the bookshop and I The theology taught at Aix but just produced rebellion in had some pastoral follows on in the line of me. When I was a student I met responsibilities. The leaders and traditional reformed theology some Christians and I became a I agreed that I would do a and allows me to feel part of believer, but without being degree at Aix to complete my the historical renewal of the freed from fears and doubts, theological preparation. church. The contact with the and without my life being I find studying at Aix to be very professors, and their availability changed deep down. It was only valuable. It is of prime to students, the contacts with when listening to sermons by importance to add knowledge other students all make the pastors from the Mission of the word to personal programme dynamic and allow Timothée that I became aware spirituality when all too often us to come into contact with of the depths of my sin and of experience and personal people from the various the love revealed in Jesus interests get the upper hand. Protestant churches. Christ. It was a real liberation, The interactive Moodle website and the new life I’d found made (Floridal International seminary, Franck BELLOIR me want o give my life to the MINTS) is a most useful tool, 3rd year distance student service of God. allowing the distance students Page 3 Newsletter - Faculté Jean Calvin Frédéric Hammann , former student of the seminary, has been our James Boice Professor of Practical Theology since 2004, after a number of years as pastor in Switzerland. At the end of 2010 Frédéric informed us of his decision to take up a post as university chaplain in his native Switzerland, for personal and family reasons. He plans to return and teach modules regularly in Aix. We are sorry to see him go. Frédéric is a seasoned teacher, a staunch colleague and a faithful friend to all those who have had the pleasure of working with him. We will miss him, and we will really feel his absence. May the Lord bless him in his new Frédéric HAMMANN ministry! Last academic year 15 students graduated with a Bachelors degree. Nearly all of them are now at work in different churches. 2 are continuing study elsewhere in the USA.
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