FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto)
Wycliffe College, the evangelical and Anglican theological college in Toronto, is delighted to announce the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner to be professor of historical theology, to commence Sept. 1, 2007. Dr. Radner, presently the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado, has a doctorate in systematic theology from Yale University. He was called by Archbishop Rowan Williams one of the most creative Anglican minds today. Dr. Radner has a distinguished record of publication which includes The End of the Church, a major work on the doctrines of the Spirit and the Church, Hope Among the Fragments, dealing with Scriptural hermeneutics, and The Fate of Communion (co-authored), a theological reflection on contemporary Anglicanism. His commentary on Leviticus for Brazos will appear later this year. On the occasion of his appointment, George Sumner, Wycliffe’s principal, said “Ephraim Radner brings an impressive scholarly corpus to this new work. Equally impressive are his years of faithful and effective parish ministry. His range of ministerial experience includes Burundi, Haiti, and inner-city Cleveland. He embodies the Anglican ideal of the pastor-scholar. Ephraim also continues to make a key contribution to conversations about the future shape of the Anglican Communion through his membership on the Covenant Design Group. On that stage he has been a patient and wise voice on behalf of the unity and catholicity of Church. The addition of Ephraim to an already strong and cohesive faculty means that there is no stronger place than Wycliffe for an Episcopal/Anglican ordinand to learn about his/her tradition.”
Boy, out of the Anglican Communion frying pan and into the Anglican Communion fire;-)
Best wishes!
Now this is where we need to be able to post pictures in the new blog. Since we can’t you’ll have to go here to see the new position Dr. Radner is taking.
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Best to Dr. Radner…
Radner has never been an easy read, but he’s head and shoulders above the majority of those teaching in Tec (the emptying church) seminaries. Thast his talents didn’t find a proper outlet in Tec while nondescripts were promoted says volumes. Wycliffe fights to hold the orthodox flame alight in the dying Canadian church and is literally across the road from the heterodox Trinity college. Ad multos annos, Dr Radner.
I had the pleasure of sitting on the review committe at Yale when Dr Radner’s thesis was being vetted/approved. I can still recall the inestimable Professor Dupre saying (because I had to read his text, his being absent) ‘this is the most impressive thesis I have ever read in my career.’
My prayers tonight are for the good people of Ascension. How great is their loss and how sad they must be.
But our lessons this Sunday have our King over Death touching a bier and restoring a dead son to her mother, and so making His church. He will know exactly how to care for Ascension, Pueblo. That is the field where He is always victor.
The good news is that Dr Radner–whom we offered a post to at St Andrews several years ago–will now be able to do the work he has ‘had a path prepared for him to walk in.’ His students will be the new congregation. The beneficiaries will be the Anglican Communion parishes throughout the world. Missionary, preacher, scholar, labourer in the vineyard at a time when the cornerstone is being rejected — may God bless him, Annette and their children at this very crucial time.
And to Him be the glory, unto the ages of ages, Amen. C Seitz