Defining Worship: The Puritans and Biblical Worship Today Saturday 25 April 2015 Historical Theology Mini-Conference, Part 2 & Official Opening of the Puritan Studies Program We warmly invite church leaders, students, their wives, and any concerned church members to this conference. John Wycliffe Theological College (JWTC) offers it in connection with the official opening of our new post-graduate Puritan Studies Program. Please join us as we discuss God’s glorious plan for worship in our confused age while learning from the Puritans of the 17th century. Location: The English Reformed Church, 172 Hyperion Dr. North Riding. To RSVP by Friday 24 April (for catering purposes) and for directions please call (011) 462-9478. Attendance is free of charge! Speakers: Dr. Adriaan Neele is the director of the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at the University of the Free State and is a Jonathan Edwards scholar. He also serves as Research Scholar and Digital Editor at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. He is the author of The Art of Living to God (2005) and Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706): Reformed Orthodoxy: Method and Piety (2009). Dr. Bob McKelvey is the coordinator of the Puritan Studies Program at the University of the Free State and is a specialist in John Bunyan studies. He also serves as Lecturer in Historical Theology at JWTC and as Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at NorthWest University. He is the author of Histories that Mansoul and Her Wars Anatomize: The Drama of Redemption in John Bunyan’s Holy War (2011). Introducing the Puritan Studies Program (PSP) ! Schedule: 9:30am Welcome and Refreshments 10:00am Dr. Adriaan Neele,“’The Art of Prophesying’: William Perkins on Preaching and Rhetoric” 10:45am Dr. Bob McKelvey, “William Ames and the Link between Natural and Instituted Worship” 11:30am Discussion and Opening of the Puritan Studies Program 12noon Conclusion While you are here, please feel free to stop in at Good Neighbours Bookshop (open at 8:30am the day of the conference) for some great books and warm fellowship! This conference is sponsored by JWTC in part to officially launch PSP in connection with the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa at the University of the Free State. PSP provides post-graduate (MTh and PhD) studies with the burden to provide higher education that helps rather than hinders the work of Christ’s church. For more details, please email Bob at: [email protected].
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