Professor Ellen Wondra Named Editor of Anglican Theological Review

Ellen Wondra was named new editor of the Anglican Theological Review at the annual board meeting in October. She has been active on the AnglicanTheological Review (ATR) Board since 1989, and most recently Chair of the Editorial Committee and then Associate Editor. The ATR is a quarterly journal of theological reflection. For eighty-eight years, the ATR has been the unofficial organ of the seminaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada.

Continue reading "Professor Ellen Wondra Named Editor of Anglican Theological Review"

Posted December 20, 2005 at 11:45 AM

Seabury Faculty News - Fall 2005

Continue reading for recent faculty publications and presentations.

Continue reading "Seabury Faculty News - Fall 2005"

Posted October 19, 2005 at 04:16 PM

Dean and President, the Rev. Dr. Gary Hall

Dr. Hall has been rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvaniafor three years. A native Californian, Hall received his A.B. at the University of California - Berkeley before attending Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he earned his M.Div. degree.  He returned to California to study at UCLA where he earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.

Serving parishes in California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Hall's positions include vicar, rector and Senior Associate for Education. Hall has been chaplain at Cranbrook Schools in Michigan, chair of the Campus Ministry Study Committee, and for twelve years was chaplain at Camp Stevens in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He has also played key roles in diocesan
programs as Bishop’s Chaplain and, later, as Sexual Misconduct Officer.

Dean Hall has been a lecturer or Adjunct Professor at Yale Divinity School, Case Western University’s School of Management, Claremont School of Theology, UCLA and the Department of Religion at Cranbrook Schools. He is a past recipient of the Episcopal Church Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

For academic year 2005-2006, Dean Hall is also acting as the Interim Executive Director of the Seabury Institute.

E-mail Dean Hall

Posted January 05, 2005 at 07:45 PM

A. K. M. Adam

A.K.M. Adam teaches New Testament and Early Church History at Seabury. He received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Bowdoin College, an M.Div. and S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University. Ordained to the priesthood in 1986, he has served a number of schools and parishes, most recently including the Parish of St. Luke’s, Evanston. AKMA has taught at Eckerd College and Princeton Theological Seminary before coming to Seabury. He spent one semester at the Names Foundation in San Francisco, studying the inter-textual relation of the Bible and the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He has written and edited numerous books and articles, including What is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? (1995), Making Sense of New Testament Theology (1995), A Grammar of New Testament Greek (1999), and A Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation and Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader (2000). His articles have appeared in Interpretation, Teaching Theology and Religion, Scottish Journal of Theology, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, and Anglican Theological Review.

E-mail Professor Adam

Continue reading "A. K. M. Adam"

Posted January 05, 2005 at 05:37 PM

Paula S. Datsko Barker

Paula Barker teaches medieval and Reformation church history with a focus on developments in England, and Spirituality. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Michigan, a master of divinity degree from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in church history from the University of Chicago. She is excited about her recent work in theological aesthetics, which finds practical expression in her use of the arts to teach history, theology, and spirituality. Having studied mystical theology for many years, her research and writing now focus on how music has been understood theologically over the centuries as a means of experiencing the divine. She is working on a book entitled Controversial Dissonance: Music and the Experience of God in Reformation Theologies. Her most recent article is on “The Psalms as an Instrument of Social Cohesion in the Ecclesiastical Polity of Richard Hooker,” forthcoming in Psalms in the Early Modern World. Other articles and reviews have appeared in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Anglican Theological Review, Church History, Journal of Religion, and Journal of Ecclesiastical History.

E-mail Professor Barker

Continue reading "Paula S. Datsko Barker"

Posted January 05, 2005 at 05:23 PM

John A. Dally

John Dally teaches Christian Communication at Seabury, a subject which includes preaching, Christian education, and religion and literature. He holds a bachelors’ degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Irvine, a master of divinity degree from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in religion and literature from the University of Chicago. John is the author of seven plays, numerous works for speech choir, and a cycle of dramas for children. With Sally Manning, he is the co-author of Saving Wisdom, a Montessori-based curriculum of religious education for elementary school aged children.

E-mail Professor Dally

Posted January 05, 2005 at 05:16 PM

Rosemary D. Gooden

Rosemary D. Gooden is the lecturer in Modern Church and Mission. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's Program in American Culture, where she specialized in American religious and social history and the history of American women. She previously taught in the history departments of DePaul University and Texas A&M University. She was the Co-Chair of the American Academy of Religion's Steering Committee of the Afro-American Religious History Group, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Academic Teaching and the Study of Religion Section. She recently edited and wrote a critical introduction for Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer by Mrs. Edward Mix (2002). She has also served as a consultant for two films, Growing Up Communally, and The Winter Shakers.

E-mail Professor Gooden

Posted January 05, 2005 at 05:11 PM

Ruth Meyers

Ruth Meyers, priest, teacher, scholar, and Academic Dean, has taught liturgy at Seabury since 1995. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Seabury and then her M.A. in theology (1989) and Ph.D. in liturgical history (1992) from the University of Notre Dame.

E-mail Professor Meyers

Continue reading "Ruth Meyers"

Posted January 05, 2005 at 04:52 PM

Milner Seifert

M. Milner Seifert is Lecturer in Sacred Music. He teaches courses in liturgical music and serves as Director of Music for the Charles Palmerston Anderson Chapel of Saint John the Divine. Milner has a Master of Music in Music History and Literature (1976) from Northwestern University and a Certificate in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame (1993). From 1969 until 2003 he was Choral Director at Evanston Township High School. Milner serves as Choir Director for St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Wilmette, Illinois. In the past he has been a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Diocese of Chicago and served a term on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (1997-2003).
E-mail Professor Seifert

Posted January 05, 2005 at 04:48 PM

Newland F. Smith 3rd

Newland Smith has been the librarian at Seabury since receiving his master’s degree in library science from the University of Chicago. He also holds a bachelor of divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary. As Librarian for Collection Management of the United Library Newland has oversight over the selection of materials and is currently chair of the ACTS Library Council’s Collaborative Collection Task Force. He has been a Deputy to General Convention six times, beginning with the convention of 1988. He is committed to the cause of peace with justice for Israelis and Palestinians. Since 1983 he has served as a consultant to the librarian of St. George’s College, Jerusalem. He is also Vice-Chair of the Board of the Archives of the Episcopal Church and a member of the Chicago Diocesan Anti-Racism Commission.

E-mail Newland Smith

Posted January 05, 2005 at 04:43 PM

Ellen Wondra

Ellen Wondra is Seabury's Professor of Theology and Ethics. She earned her B.A. in Religion from Pomona College in 1972, her M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1976, and her Ph.D. in Christian Theology from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1991. She is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, essays, articles, and ecumenical documents. Beginning in 2006, she is the new Editor of The Anglican Theological Review, headquartered at Seabury. Prof. Wondra has served the Episcopal Church both at the diocesan and national level and has been a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S.A. since 1992.

E-mail Professor Wondra

Posted January 05, 2005 at 04:36 PM

Frank Yamada

Frank Yamada teaches Hebrew and Hebrew Scriptures at Seabury. He holds a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. His classes emphasize literary and theological interpretations of the Hebrew Scriptures and explore the difference that social and cultural location makes in the interpretative process. His current scholarship focuses on Asian and Asian American hermeneutics. Frank is a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

E-mail Professor Yamada

Posted January 05, 2005 at 04:34 PM

Administration and Staff

Administration

Gary Hall
Dean and President
Interim Executive Director of the Seabury Institute
gary.hall@seabury.edu

Marina Carrott
Director of Finance and Administration
marina.carrott@seabury.edu

Ruth A. Meyers
Academic Dean
r-meyers@seabury.edu

Rich Towers
Registrar and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
rich.towers@seabury.edu

Elizabeth Butler
Director of Development
elizabeth.butler@seabury.edu

Constance Wilson
Director of Communications
constance.wilson@seabury.edu

Continue reading "Administration and Staff"

Posted December 30, 2004 at 06:27 PM