Nazarene Theological Seminary

The Visiting Scholars Program will begin in the fall of 2011, and is made possible by support from the Hugh C. Benner Lectures on Pastoral Ministry Lectureship Fund and the Earle Lectures on Biblical Literature Lectureship Fund. This new program will enable a visiting scholar to co-teach a Kansas City module class with an NTS professor. The visiting professor will teach the second week of the two-week module and while in Kansas City, will also give one public lecture at NTS.

The Earle Fund will feature a well-known Old Testament or New Testament scholar whereas the Benner Fund will bring in a well-known scholar in a discipline other than biblical studies. The plan is to feature a Benner visiting scholar one year and an Earle visiting scholar the next year so that a visiting scholar will be teaching at NTS once every academic year.

The first Benner visiting scholar will be Dr. Robert Jenson, Senior Scholar for Research at the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Jenson was well received on campus in fall 2007 when he delivered the Grider-Winget Lectures in Theology. He will be in Kansas City to co-teach a fall 2011 module with Dr. Steve McCormick, NTS Professor of Historical Theology and William M. Greathouse Chair of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology. He will lecture in class during the second week of the module, Aug. 29-Sep. 2, 2011. The particular class title is to be determined but possibilities include: The Trinity, Ecclesiology, and Theology of Atonement. Contact the Office of the Registrar & Admissions for more details.

The first Earle visiting scholar will be Dr. Terence Fretheim, the Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has taught for over fifty years. Dr. Fretheim gave the Earle Lectures in Old Testament in fall 2008 which became the basis for his recently published book: Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters (Baker Academic, 2010). The book is part of The Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic series and is published in conjunction with Nazarene Theological Seminary. He will be in Kansas City to co-teach Genesis, an NTS fall 2012 module, with Dr. Joseph Coleson, NTS Professor of Old Testament. Dr. Fretheim will lecture in class during the second week of the module, Aug. 27- 31, 2012. Contact the Office of the Registrar & Admissions for more details.