The Gospel in our Asian Cultures By Bruce Nicholls The crisis of theological education in Asia is the crisis of its theology which in turn is the crisis of understanding the gospel in Asian cultures. Our seminaries on the whole have not been successful in training pastors, educationalists and evangelists to reach the thoughtful [...]
My name is Steve Chang and I teach New Testament at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Korea. Let me introduce to you the Listening Team for this GA (Stephen Pardue, Dick Eugenio, Sooi Ling Tan, and myself). As the Listening Team, we were All Ears! When GS Theresa asked me to summarize this [...]
Next year, ATA will officially turn 50! So, to celebrate the goodness and faithfulness of our Lord to this ministry, a handful of celebrations will take place throughout the year. So, take note of these dates, mark your calendar, and join us as we rejoice in all that God had done throughout all these [...]
On one of the afternoons of this year’s General Assembly, the Executive board, members, and leaders gathered for ATA’s business meeting. It was in this meeting that the leaders of the Asia Theological Association were ratified. It was also in this meeting that Dr. Theresa Lua was reappointed and given another term as General [...]
After six years as ATA’s Publications Secretary and General Editor of the Asia Bible Commentary Series, Dr. Federico “Rico” Villanueva has stepped down in order to begin a new chapter in his ministry. Dr. Rico will now be serving the Lord through Langham Literature as its Commissioning Editor for Asia. Dr. Rico began his [...]
Exciting things happened in the month of September as two GATE workshops were conducted in two different countries, with both workshops offering the second-year curriculum of the program. These countries were North India and Mongolia. The year 2 GATE workshop in North India was held last September 9-11 and was facilitated by Drs. Theresa [...]
By Dr. Paul Cornelius, Regional Secretary, ATA India The second stage of the VSI engagement with the India cluster took place over a period of two weeks, from August 26 – September 6, 2019. The team, consisting of Dr. Emmanuel Bellon (Vice President, Scholar Leaders International), Dr. Theresa Lua (General Secretary of ATA International), Dr. [...]
Three Visiting evaluating teams were sent out to and welcomed by three schools, all in Southeast Asia, this quarter; two of those schools in the Philippines and one in Malaysia. The schools in the Philippines were the Grain of Wheat College and Seminary and the Presbyterian Theological Seminary & College of Advanced Studies (PTS-CAS) [...]
Last May 28-30 2019, Israel College of the Bible was visited by a joint team from ATA and the the European Council for Theological Education or ECTE (formerly the European Evangelical Accrediting Association or EEAA). The members of the team are as follows: Dr. Rick Weymouth (ATA Convenor), Dr. Chiu Eng Tan (ATA Member), [...]
A Visiting Evaluation Team (VET) was sent out to the Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) in Taiwan last June 17-19. The team, composed of Drs. Ng Peh Cheng, AssociateSecretary of Accreditation and Educational development, ATA, Dr. Luke Cheung, Vice President, China Graduate School of Theology, and Erwir Chen, Academic Dean, China Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan, [...]
