Trinity Institute

I have generally used Leithart.com to share reading notes, engage in speculations in exploratory essays, record random thoughts and asides, occasionally to respond to critics. It’s not typically been a place for me to make personal announcements. This is an exception.

For the past several months, I have been working with several friends to establish a study center and pastoral training institute, the Trinity Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama. Beginning in the fall of 2013, the Institute will begin offering several intensive classes each year, mainly in biblical theology and liturgics. We also plan to sponsor an annual lecture series featuring theologians outside our Reformed tradition, to offer a summer course for late high school and college students, and to hold an annual theology conference.

A few years down the road, we plan to initiate a year-long training program, which will serve as a “starter course” or “finishing school” for seminary students, a refresher course for pastors, a program in Scripture and liturgical theology for future theologians, a theological enrichment course for people in other fields.

I will remain as a parttime Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College, where I have been happily ensconced for the past fifteen years, but after this academic year I will turn my energies primarily to the Institute. I will direct the Institute, my colleague James Jordan will be a Scholar in Residence, and a number of our long-time associates will be involved in the programs. This is the culmination of nearly a quarter-century of collaboration, and will perpetuate our work into the next generation and beyond.

Look for more information about the Institute at this site over the next several months. Please pray for our work. If you are interested in helping with start-up costs, you may send checks to Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3251 Greendale Road, Birmingham, AL 35243, and designate them for the “Trinity Institute.”