{"id":41050,"date":"2013-11-14T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/andrew_purves_installed_as_jean_and_nancy_davis_professor_of_historical_the\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:00:56","slug":"andrew_purves_installed_as_jean_and_nancy_davis_professor_of_historical_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41050","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Purves Installed as Jean and Nancy Davis Professor of Historical Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, Purves received degrees in philosophy and divinity from the University of Edinburgh, and a Th.M. from Duke Divinity School. His Ph.D. is from the University of Edinburgh. Purves came to the US in 1978 and was ordained by Philadelphia Presbytery. He served as minister of the Hebron Presbyterian Church, Clinton, Pa., until 1983, when he was called to join the faculty of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Purves has a long list of publications, both books and articles, academic and popular. His books include The Search for Compassion: Spirituality and Ministry, Union in Christ (with Mark Achtemeier), A Passion for the Gospel (with Achtemeier), Encountering God: Christian Faith in Turbulent Times (with Charles Partee), Pastoral Theology in the Classical Tradition, Reconstructing Pastoral Theology: A Christological Foundation, The Crucifixion of Ministry, and The Resurrection of Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Jean and Nancy Davis Chair of Historical Theology was established at Pittsburgh Seminary in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pts.edu\/Purves_Installation\">Read it all from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary<\/a> and make sure to see who founded the chair&#8211;a great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, Purves received degrees in philosophy and divinity from the University of Edinburgh, and a Th.M. from Duke Divinity School. His Ph.D. is from the University of Edinburgh. Purves came to the US in 1978 and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41050\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,184,167,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-seminary-theological-education","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}