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Schedule of Wycliffe Open House, Wednesday, October 17, 2018 8:30: Morning Prayer9:00–11:00: Sit in on a class (contact us for arrangements by Oct. 15)10:50–11:30: Coffee hour11:00–1:00: Sit in on a class (contact us for arrangements by Oct. 15)1:00–2:00: Lunch2:00–2:30: Tour3:00–3:30: Coffee break3:30–4:30: Founders’ Day Memorial Lecture: “A Confusion of Printers: The Press in the English Reformation”by P. J. Carefoote, head of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Fisher Library4:45–6:00: Chapel6:00: Community Dinner7:00–9:00: Sit in on a class (contact us for arrangements

Last week, from September 20-22, a number of Wycliffe faculty, students and friends from Toronto travelled to Dallas, Texas, for the RADVO Conference, a gathering for those discerning their call to ordained ministry. This event featured notable speakers including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Stanley Hauerwas, Oliver O'Donovan and N. T. Wright. Wycliffe Principal Stephen Andrews and Professors Ephraim Radner and Catherine Sider-Hamilton were also among the speakers. This event was well attended by about 400 people. Orvin Lao, a Wycliffe alumnus who attended the event, shared his

It has been a productive publishing season for Wycliffe College. On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, beginning at 3:00 p.m., College staff, students, trustees, alumni, and faculty will come together in the Wycliffe College Reading Room to celebrate the new books that have been published by faculty and graduate students in the past year. Read all the details on this week's blog.

The work of Wycliffe College's Dr. Christopher Seitz is featured in the new book, Acts of Interpretation: Scripture, Theology, and Culture. Edited by S. A. Cummins and Jens Zimmermann, (Eerdmans 2018), the book features essays by biblical scholars and theologians offering broad reflections on key interpretive issues, rich readings of challenging biblical texts, and interaction with the Christian exegetical tradition from Melito of Sardis to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dr. Seitz's essay is a study of the canonical form of the Book of Ecclesiastes and a theological interpretation. It argues that the

On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 3:00 p.m., Wycliffe College will host Lawson Murray, President of Scripture Union (SU) Canada, as guest speaker at the “Wednesday Event.” SU’s mission is to connect Canadians with Jesus and His Story. Among its many offerings, SU publishes theStory , a daily Bible reading guide that connects the stories of a wide array of Canadians with God’s story. In this week's blog post, Dr. Murray shares his thoughts on what " Kingdom-Focused Bible Engagement" looks like.

Wine Before Breakfast; it is a compelling, curiosity-raising name for a Christian community that gathers weekly at Wycliffe College each Tuesday morning (at 7:22 a.m.) throughout the academic year. Led by Brian Walsh, Wine Before Breakfast features rich liturgy, creative music, provocative preaching, and the celebration of communion. Breakfast of home baking, preserves, juice, and organic fair-traded coffee follows in the chaplain’s office. Beginning Tuesday, September 11, 2018 and throughout the fall semester, Wine Before Breakfast will focus on the theme of hope. Brian offers a taste of the

Wycliffe College’s own Thomas Power is celebrating the release of his latest book, A Flight of Parsons: The Divinity Diaspora of Trinity College Dublin . As the editor, Power brings together the work of scholars from Canada, England, Australia, and Ireland to examine the experience of Irish Anglicans in the nineteenth century. The book pays particular attention to clergy who were graduates of Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), and their lay associates, the formative influences on them, the varied contributions they made and the legacies they left in England, Canada, and Australia. Thomas shares

"Christopher Seitz is one of the freshest voices in biblical scholarship: learned, witty, and incisively theological. He provides more reasons for recovering the ‘Elder’ Testament as a source for Christian thinking." —Gary A. Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, Notre Dame University The Elder Testament: Canon, Theology, Trinity (Baylor University Press, 2018), the latest published work by Christopher Seitz, Senior Research Professor at Wycliffe College, is a theological introduction to the canonical unity of the Scriptures of Israel. He demonstrates that, while an emphasis on

Wycliffe's Professor of Historical Theology, Ephraim Radner, was interviewed about his new book, Time and the Word: Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures (Eerdmans, 2016), by Jonathan J. Armstrong of Aqueduct Project. In this interview, the two men discuss what gave rise to the book, Christian concepts of time now and in the past, and figural reading of the Old Testament (i.e., how Christians interpret the Old Testament scriptures). Professor Radner says that one of his hopes in writing Time and the Word was "to try to lift up - intellectually, theologically - what is still a lively way

Wycliffe Professor of Scripture and Global Christianity Glen Taylor says the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision against Trinity Western University (TWU) ought to raise the concerns of every Canadian who cares about freedom of expression. Learn why he thinks so, at his blog post, "Why the Supreme Court Decision against Trinity Western University is Wrong."