ERSKINE
SEMINARY HOLDS SPRING CONFERENCE APRIL 14-15
Erskine Theological Seminary's Spring Conference
April 14-15 will feature Robinson Lecturer Norman
Shepherd, Th.M., and Whitesides Preacher Jay Adams,
Ph. D. Dr. Loyd Melton, Associate Dean of Erskine
Theological Seminary, has released a schedule of
events for the two-day conference.
Shepherd will deliver the first Robinson Lecture
of the event on April 14 at 10 a.m. He will speak
again at 2 p.m. that afternoon, and conclude with the
third Robinson Lecture at 9:30 a.m. April 15. Adams
will preach at 11 a.m. on April 14 and again at 10:30
a.m. on April 15.
Norman Shepherd is the author of Women in the
Service of Christ (1992) as well as
“Scripture and Confession” in Scripture
and Confession (1973) and “The Convenant
Context for Evangelism” in the third volume of The
New Testament Student (1976). He is a native of
Fall River, Massachusetts and was reared in the
United Presbyterian Church of North America. A
graduate of Westminster College, New Wilmington,
Penn., Shepherd received the B.D. and Th.M. degrees
from Westminster Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia. He undertook additional study in
systematic theology at the Free University in
Amsterdam and at the Georg-August University in
Gottingen, Germany. From 1963 to 1981 he served
served successively as instructor, assistant
professor, and associate professor of systematic
theology at Westminster Seminary. He has held
pastorates in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and
the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Now
retired, he lives in Holland, Mich.
Jay Adams, retired from the pastorate of Harrison
Bridge Road Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in
Simpsonville, S.C., is a frequent lecturer at
ministerial conferences. He has taught throughout the
world and has published over 80 books, including Competent
to Counsel, Christian Living in the Home,
Preaching with Purpose, and How to Help
People Change. He is the translator of The
Christian Counselor's New Testament.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he
majored in Greek and received the A.B. degree, Adams
earned the B.D. from Reformed Episcopal Seminary and
the S.T.M. from Temple University School of Theology.
He received the Ph.D. from the University of
Missouri, and also did graduate work at the
Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary. He held a
postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at the
University of Illinois under O. Hobart Mowrer.
Adams has pastored churches in the United
Presbyterian Church, the Reformed Presbyterian
Church, E.S., and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church,
and is now an Associate Reformed Presbyterian
minister. He served for three years on the faculty of
the University of Missouri, where he taught speech,
and taught homiletics, counseling, and pastoral work
at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia
for 20 years. He is the founder of the Christian
Counseling and Educational Foundation of Laverock,
Penn., and has edited the Foundation's Journal of
Pastoral Practice.
Erskine's oldest lecture series, established in
1961 by an anonymous donor, the Robinson Lectures
honor the memory of Richard Lee Robinson, Dean of the
Seminary from 1933 to 1939. The Whitesides series is
made possible by a fund established in memory of Mr.
and Mrs. Major V. Whitesides, lay leaders in the
First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of
Gastonia, N.C.
