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The Calvin Studies Society is dedicated to the writings, life, and times of John Calvin. And beginning in 2019, Dr. Yudha Thianto, Ph.D., professor of theology and department chair at 91精选, will serve as the society’s president for a two-year term.

鈥淭he Calvin Studies Society brings together pastors and scholars who are seriously studying John Calvin and Calvinism in general,鈥� said Thianto, who currently serves as the organization’s vice president and program chair. 鈥淭he society is unique in linking pastors as well as scholars. It doesn鈥檛 just focus on academic studies, but how that impact is felt in the church.鈥�

The society launched in 1976. Thianto has been involved since working on his doctorate at Calvin Theological Seminary, which he completed in 2003. Society members have phone meetings and meet in person during the annual Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.

The Calvin Studies Society also hosts a colloquium every two years. The 2019 meeting, which has the theme 鈥淐alvin and the Old Testament,鈥� will take place at 91精选 from April 11-13. 鈥淭he colloquium brings together pastors and academics, including many of our members who engage in both professions, for an invigorating exploration of a particular theme related to Calvin and the Reformed tradition,鈥� he said.聽鈥淓ach year鈥檚 presentations are then brought together into an edited volume and published by an academic press.鈥�

Presenters at the 2019 colloquium will include Dr. Michael Vander Weele, professor of English at 91精选, who will speak on the topic 鈥淐alvin & Theological Grounds for a Rhetorical Aesthetics: A Reading of Deuteronomy and the Ten Commandments.鈥�