The Henry Center funds annual conferences and workshops, led by teams of scholars and ministry leaders based on Trinity Evangelical Divinity School's campus, for the sake of promoting biblical and theological wisdom beyond the walls of the academy.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2009 | Conference on Short-Term Missions - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
In the summer of 2009, building on the momentum of the Henry Center’s Lima, Peru conference in 2006 (henrycenter.org/international), Dr. Robert Priest (TEDS) will be leading a conference on Trinity's campus on the topic of short-term mission. This conference will bring together scholars, pastors, missiologists, anthropologists, youth pastors, missionaries, students and laity to think biblically and practically about short-term missions.
2009 | The Catalyst Leadership Center - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Since 1991, the Catalyst Leadership Center has aimed to serve the Asian North American Christian community by focusing on the task of training, resourcing and supporting its leaders. During May 18-20th 2009, the Catalyst Leadership Center and the Carl F. H. Henry Center will jointly sponsor the Asian North American Theology and Ministry Consultation. The major aim of this gathering is to create an intentional space in which Asian North American theologians and pastors will gather and reflect upon the shared task of the ministry of the Gospel in today's Asian North American context. As the result of this consultation, it is our hope that ANA theologians and ministry practitioners will be encouraged to collaborate with one another for the ministry of the Gospel.
2012 | The Scripture Project - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
The Scripture Project is the title of a two-volume set of advanced essays on the doctrine of Scripture. A group of thirty-eight scholars have agreed to contribute, writing in the heritage of informed confessionalism on a wide range of topics designed to address contemporary discussion on the nature of the Bible. The first draft of the essays is expected to be ready in June 2010, when the Henry Center will convene a private conference for these contributors during which they will work over one another's papers. Suitably revised, these papers will then be published by Eerdmans. The target date for publication is 2012. The editor is D. A. Carson.
PAST EVENTS
May 24-27, 2004 | Scripture and the Disciplines Conference - Wheaton College
The HCTU co-sponsored the Scripture and the Disciplines Conference at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. This conference provided a venue for Christian scholars in the humanities and social sciences together with their colleagues in biblical and theological studies to explore new avenues for scholarship deeply rooted in Scripture. This conference, titled, "Setting a New Agenda: The Bible in Dialogue with the Academy," included several TEDS faculty members.
April 28-29, 2006 | John D. Woodbridge Conference - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School invited alumni and friends to “The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Mission,” a conference in honor of TEDS professor John D. Woodbridge. The speakers addressed historical aspects of evangelical mission from both Western and Majority World perspectives.
February 3, 2007 | Missiology Conference - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
This conference centered around the themes of Short-term Mission and Mission in the Hispanic and Latin American World. With at least 1.6 million US church members traveling abroad on short-term mission trips each year, there remains a pressing need to think through how best to carry out "short-term missions." And with 43 million Hispanics within the US (more than the total population of Canada), and millions more in neighboring countries, it is essential that the North American Church reflect carefully on "Mission in the Hispanic and Latin American World. This conference included an impressive roster of outstanding presentations and panel discussions, including over 200 youth pastors, mission pastors, Hispanic pastors, professors, students, and missionaries.
March 16-18, 2007 | Short-term Missions Conference - The Maria House, Techny, IL
Led by Dr. Robert Priest (TEDS), this conference focused on the impact of short-term mission on hosting countries. There were over 200 people in attendance and the speaking lineup included several anthropologists (Marla Frederick, Harvard; Brian Howell, Wheaton; Laura Montgomery, Westmont), sociologists (Kurt Ver Beek, Calvin College; Kersten Priest, Wheaton) and international mission experts (Val Ogden, England; Hartwig Eitzen, Paraguay; Frank Fox, India).
May 22-24, 2007 | The Gospel Coalition - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Led by Dr. D.A. Carson (TEDS) and Pastor Tim Keller (Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York), this ministry was created out of the conviction that Christian ministry must begin with Scripture and go out from there. The Gospel Coalition is a fellowship of evangelical churches deeply committed to renewing faith in the gospel of Christ and to reforming ministry practices to conform fully with the Scriptures. The Henry Center is providing startup financial support to this new ministry. www.thegospelcoalition.org
