Maestroh
6th October 2009, 12:07 PM
Coming soon - November 1, 2009, to be exact - will be the first thorough history of Dallas Theological Seminary (http://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Union-Theological-Seminary-Evangelicalism/dp/0310237866)that has ever been written. It is a 400 page work written by our esteemed Church History professor, Dr. John D. Hannah, a member of the faculty for over 30 years. Dr. Hannah possesses two doctorates (a Th.D. from DTS, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Dallas) and has done postdoctoral work at Yale University. He is also the author of the Kregel Guide To Church History and this spring will be teaching a class devoted entirely to "Calvin's Institutes."
I sat under Dr. Hannah three years ago for Church History, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. He has been working on this book for quite some time and it promises to not be an apologetic for everything that has ever happened here as though we are "holier than thou." Indeed, Hannah has stated a number of things in class that I won't repeat until I've had a chance to see if some of those dark things have made it into the book.
The book is published by Zondervan, the same folks who publish the NIV.
Here is the blurb from the cover that I saw this morning when I entered the learning center:
Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism.
An Uncommon Union, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran faculty member of DTS, provides a necessary corrective to such a simplistic assessment. Using the tenures of the school’s five presidents as the backbone for his narrative, John D. Hannah reveals the tensions that DTS has experienced in its eighty-plus years of existence.
Each successive president of DTS brought his own unique style and perceptions to the school, even as he dealt with the changing religious and cultural milieu that swirled around it. Hannah argues that, rather than being a monolithic institution, Dallas Theological Seminary is a unique blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, a place that defies easy categorization.
A keenly insightful and thoughtful work, An Uncommon Union illuminates the path charted by the leaders of a prominent American seminary in a rapidly changing world. All readers interested in the history and future of evangelicalism, regardless of their theological persuasion, will benefit from this book.
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Just FWIW, the building pictured on the book is (I believe) Davison Hall, now the center of all the administration.
I sat under Dr. Hannah three years ago for Church History, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. He has been working on this book for quite some time and it promises to not be an apologetic for everything that has ever happened here as though we are "holier than thou." Indeed, Hannah has stated a number of things in class that I won't repeat until I've had a chance to see if some of those dark things have made it into the book.
The book is published by Zondervan, the same folks who publish the NIV.
Here is the blurb from the cover that I saw this morning when I entered the learning center:
Dallas Theological Seminary is often viewed as a bastion of conservative evangelicalism, marked by an unswerving devotion to theological positions of fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, and dispensational premillennialism.
An Uncommon Union, the first book-length history of Dallas Theological Seminary, written by a graduate and veteran faculty member of DTS, provides a necessary corrective to such a simplistic assessment. Using the tenures of the school’s five presidents as the backbone for his narrative, John D. Hannah reveals the tensions that DTS has experienced in its eighty-plus years of existence.
Each successive president of DTS brought his own unique style and perceptions to the school, even as he dealt with the changing religious and cultural milieu that swirled around it. Hannah argues that, rather than being a monolithic institution, Dallas Theological Seminary is a unique blend of differing heritages and of opposing traditions, a place that defies easy categorization.
A keenly insightful and thoughtful work, An Uncommon Union illuminates the path charted by the leaders of a prominent American seminary in a rapidly changing world. All readers interested in the history and future of evangelicalism, regardless of their theological persuasion, will benefit from this book.
END BLURB
Just FWIW, the building pictured on the book is (I believe) Davison Hall, now the center of all the administration.