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Fuller Theological Seminary Digital Commons @ Fuller The SEMI (1991-2000) Fuller Seminary Publications 5-3-1999 The Semi (05-03-1999) Fuller Theological Seminary Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fts-semi-5 Recommended Citation Fuller Theological Seminary, "The Semi (05-03-1999)" (1999). The SEMI (1991-2000). 276. https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fts-semi-5/276 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Fuller Seminary Publications at Digital Commons @ Fuller. It has been accepted for inclusion in The SEMI (1991-2000) by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Fuller. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Women’s Lectureship Coming Soon... pg 3 THE VOICE OF THE FULLER COMMUNITY Week 6______________________ May 3— 7 ,1999 The David Allan *7<zi6i*tŸ rfß & ut An interview with Dr. John Goldingay by Martyn Smith Hubbard Chair The SEMI congratulates Dr. On Wednesday, May 5, from 10:00 -10:50 a.m., Goldingay on his coming in Dr. John Goldingay will be installed in the David stallation into the David Allan Allan Hubbard Chair of Old Testament. This in Chair of Old Testament. (See stallation will be held at the First Congregational the sidebar for information on Church and all students, staff, and faculty are in attending this event.) Dr. vited. Dr. Goldingay will be speaking on the topic, Goldingay has been at Fuller “What Are the Characteristics of Evangelical only two years, but he has come Study of the Old Testament.” to be a well-recognized pres The David Allan Hubbard Chair of Old Testa ence on campus. Many stu ment was established a few years ago in honor dents (both the editor and pro of Fuller’s president for 30 years, David Allan duction editor of the SEMI in Hubbard. Dr. Francis Anderson occupied the cluded) have visited his resi chair as a visiting professor, while the search for dence for talk and food with a permanent occupant was conducted. Dr. him and his wife Ann. Goldingay is the first professor to be formally installed into the chair. The chair is an Old Testament one because Dr. MS: This is your second complete year at Fuller. Has it been what you expected? Hubbard was an Old Testament professor as well JG: One thing I was very much looking forward to is ceasing to be the president as being president of the seminary. Dr. Hubbard of a seminary and becoming just a professor again. I expected to find that this chose to put most of his energy into his work as would be a release, and I expected to find a kind of refreshment in just being a president, but he remained interested and en professor. And that has been really true. gaged with scholarship in his field of expertise. I remember when I first came to Fuller I used to come into my office in the Although much of Dr. Hubbard’s writing was morning and look around for the piles of paper that I had to have done. And aimed at a more generalist audience, he remained then I realized once more that there were no piles of paper to go through be supportive of specialist work being done by other cause I wasn’t in charge of the place. And therefore I was free to crawl off to the faculty members. And that kind of encourage library and read books. ment for the continued growth of scholarship here at Fuller is one of his primary legacies. The chair MS: I remember once in a class you made an allusion to the song “Lady Ma in Old Testament studies honors his love of Old donna” by the Beatles... Testament studies, as well as his broader legacy JG: I find that very difficult to believe... [laughs] as president of this seminary. MS: Since then I have been curious about your interest in pop-culture. I have this image o f you going to theological school and then going home and listening to the latest British bands. Is that a correct image? JG: That’s a fairly correct image. Though my musical tastes are not at all confined to the latest pop. I like rock music; I like blues; and I’ve listened to a lot more jazz since we’ve gotten here. One of my colleagues in Nottingham used to say that I had carried on listen ing to the music that everybody else had stopped listening to when they grew up. And I accept that description. I started listening to pop music and rock in the fifties when I was a young teenager and when Frank Sinatra made his great albums and Bill Haley happened and Elvis happened, and didn’t stop really. MS: As you look back now do you find much of value in that pop music? JG: That reminds me of one of the ordinans in our seminary, who played the drums in a band that I was part of, who was asked when he was going through the continued on page 4 2 the SEMI May 3— 7, 1999 $$ Financial Aid W Director OSS: Ruth Vuong Interested in a federal work study position with financial aid? Let us know! Managing Editor: Carmen Valdes Call 584-5421 and ask for Julie. Editor: Martyn Smith M A T T H E W O. R E Y N O LD S available in the Office of Financial Aid. Production Editor: James S. Kim SCHOLARSHIP FUND Deadline: June 1,1999. The SEMI is published weekly as a Applicants must be affiliated with the United service to the Fuller community by the Church of Christ. Applicants must have a FU LBR IG H T Office of Student Services, FullerTheo- desire to go into the active ministry as a pas Applications are available in the Office of logical Seminary, Pasadena, California tor. Applicants must have also successfully Financial Aid or look on the website 91182. For more information, contact the SEM I office at (626) 584-5430. completed at least one semester in seminary www.iie.org/fulbright. These fellowships are school. There is a list of items to submit on for study abroad. Articles and commentaries do not the board in the Office of Financial Aid. necessarily reflect the views of the Deadline: May 30,1999. THE REV. J.K. FUKUSHIMA Fuller administration or the SEMI. Final M E M O R IA L S C H O L A R SH IP editorial responsibility rests with the Director of Student Services. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH This scholarship seeks to assist the edu OF LAGUNA HILLS cation of persons who are pursuing major The Mission of the SEMI: Staffed This scholarship is for returning students course of study in areas that develop the by students and sponsored by the preparing for local church ministry in the skills and understanding necessary to fur Office of Student Services, the SEMI California-Pacific Annual Conference of the ther the development of Christian Minis serves as a connecting point for the entire Fuller community. It is a forum United Methodist Church. Applications are tries. and a voice for issues, information, and events of interest to the community. Announcement Information: Meeting Dr. Sherwood Lingenfelter Notices may be submitted to the Byjean-Paul Heldt, Editor (Kreyssler Hall, 2nd Floor) by SW M Ph.D. Student Lingenfelter shared his noon ( 12 p.m.) on Tuesday, ten days participatory approach prior to the date of publication. N o With the appointment of any new leader, to academic leadership late notices can be accepted. curiosity and interest are at their highest among ■ as being fundamentally In-house users will be charged for the future constituency of the new boss. And rooted in partnership notices from their departments which so an introductory meeting with Dr. Sherwood with all concerned: fac exceed 50 words in length o r which Lingenfelter, SWM’s newly appointed dean, ulty, students, and run longer than two weeks. was held on Friday, April 16,1999.1 was first Fuller’s administration. He expressly said that of all struck by Dr. Lingenfelter’s plain and Advertisement Information: his role was not to impose his own vision, but Notices from individuals or churches simple honesty. He retraced his life, both his rather to enable faculty and students alike to for events not directly sponsored by a professional and spiritual pilgrimage, with realize their personal and collective visions. Fuller office o r organization will be humility. He shared with us several “defining While as students we may have certain printed in the “Ads” section and charged per word. moments” that, stringed together, led him from ideas about the future of SWM, none of us is the University of Pittsburgh to the Pacific Is in a position to embrace an all-encompass ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I land of Yap, and then to New York, Brazil, ing vision for this prestigious school with a Biola, and finally to Fuller. It was particularly remarkable history. What we do need, indeed, encouraging to hear how God uses people and is a leader that listens to us individually and ALL3K BAR Y circumstances to transform a secular anthro collectively, and who can formulate a corpo Come and join us this Wednesday, May pologist into one who is fit for his own rate vision from our individual aspirations. 5, in the First Congregational Church missiological purposes. Many questions still remain unanswered, but at 10 a.m. as we hear an installation In anticipation of questions from the au I have gleaned indications that Lingenfelter message from SOT Professor John dience about his vision for the school, is precisely that kind of leader.