Ats 90th Anniversary Publications- Theological Foundations

The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits PREFACE As part of Asbury Theological Seminary's 90th Anniversary, First Fruits Press decided the timing was right to republish some of the past works created by the Seminary during the celebrations of its 40th and 50th Anniversaries. During the academic year of 1973-1974, the Seminary's 50th Anniversary, President Frank B. Stanger encouraged the celebration through two different series of lectures. The first was to assign various faculty members key theological topics and have them present scholarly papers at Estes Chapel throughout the year. These papers were separately published in The Asbury Seminarian at the time, but never together as a collection, until now. These papers are presented here in the order in which they were given. Some unnamed librarian in the B.L. Fisher Library collected the typed papers and had them bound together with a flyer about the 50th Anniversary celebration. Finding this volume was the event that encouraged us to publish this collection as a new edition. Many of the names in this volume are illustrious names from Asbury's past that will be familiar to many alumni. I have the fortunate pleasure to know two of these men who are still present at Asbury Theological Seminary in this our 90th year. Both Dr. Kenneth C. Kinghorn and Dr. Robert E. Coleman are retired, but still active on campus and occasionally teaching. Their passion for the Kingdom of God is still evident in their lives today as a testimony of the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives through the teaching ministry of Asbury Theological Seminary. The second special series of lectures encouraged by Dr. Stanger occurred during the week of March 11-15, 1974.…