{"id":12308,"date":"2012-04-12T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2012-04-27T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T20:32:58","slug":"cjp-baptist-theological-seminary-partner-for-justice-and-peacebuilding-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/cjp-baptist-theological-seminary-partner-for-justice-and-peacebuilding-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"CJP, Baptist Theological Seminary Partner for Justice and Peacebuilding Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy Religious Herald, Apr. 10, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A concentration in justice and peacebuilding will be available to master of divinity degree students at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsr.edu\/s\/918\/start.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond<\/span><\/a> (BTSR) beginning this fall, in a collaborative effort a seminary spokesman said would help the school \u201clive out\u201d its core values.<\/p>\n<p>The degree will be offered through a partnership between BTSR and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/span><\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg,Va.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new emphasis helps BTSR live out values that have been inherent in our seminary from its founding,\u201d said Israel Galindo, dean and professor of Christian formation and leadership. \u201cIt will expand the options for ministry in the world for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Galindo said requirements for the M.Div. degree will remain unchanged, but that the concentration \u201cmaintains the degree program goals while offering a more specific focus for ministry and study for students whose interest and ministry goals align with the concentration emphasis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BTSR offers similar M.Div. concentrations in areas such as youth and student ministries, Christian formation education and biblical interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the program will engage the justice and peacebuilding components on the Harrisonburg campus during the center\u2019s highly-regarded Summer Peacebuilding Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an added educational and formative contextualized learning experience where they will study justice and peacebuilding with about 200 persons from over 50 countries,\u201d said Galindo.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding was one of the first university graduate divisions to offer master\u2019s degrees in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. It draws on the heritage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Eastern Mennonite University<\/span><\/a>, a 95-year-school with close ties to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mennoniteusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Mennonite Church<\/span><\/a>, an Anabaptist denomination and one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace_churches\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">historic peace churches<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new [M.Div.] concentration, and the partnership with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, offers a unique emphasis that meets current ethical and emergent global realities for ministry,\u201d said Galindo. \u201cOur faculty is excited to offer our students this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Religious Herald, Apr. 10, 2012 A concentration in justice and peacebuilding will be available to master of divinity degree students at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) beginning this <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/cjp-baptist-theological-seminary-partner-for-justice-and-peacebuilding-degree\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about CJP, Baptist Theological Seminary Partner for Justice and Peacebuilding Degree<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":12318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,12503,264,12499],"tags":[17236,14251,5690,17359],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-12308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-cjp","category-graduate-programs","category-spi","tag-cjp","tag-israel-galindo","tag-peacebuilding","tag-seminaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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