Advisory Council member Dr. Bruce Shields is taking part in the following event on August 9, 2009:
8:45 A.M., "John Calvin & His Legacy," 60 minute DVD produced
by office of Theology, Worship & Education of Presbyterian Church
(USA).
11:00 A.M. Worship, guest preacher will be James
Calvin Davis, Phd Univ of VA, Associate Prof. of religion at
Middlebury, with publication on moral theology of Roger Williams &
preparing a book on the role of religion in shaping popular views of
morality.
1:00 PM colloquium with Dr. Bruce Shields, Rev. Fred Anderson,
senior pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian church in Manhattan, and Rev. Dr. James Calvin Davis. Dr. Bruce Shields will be to look
at Calvinistic influence on worship, especially here in Vermont (which
was originally organized for Presbyterians primarily by "Covenanters,"
the group in Scotland which accepted martydom rather than to succumb to
the power of Archbishop Laud under the Restoration government of King
Charles II.