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Dr. Paul Blowers Awarded Research Grant
2008-09 ATS Lilly Theological Research Grants Recipient
The Association of
Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) recently
announced this year's twenty-five recipients of the Lilly
Theological Research Grants. Supported by the Lilly Endowment for
the past eleven years, this grant entitles Faculty Fellowships of
$30,000 during a leave, Theological Scholars Grants of $12,000 and
Research Expense Grants of $5,000.
Among this year's recipients is Dr. Paul Blowers, Emmanuel
School of Religion's
Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History. Dr. Blowers has been
working with Scott Douglas Seay, Assistant Professor of History of
Global Christianity at Christian Theological Seminary; Douglas
Foster, Associate Dean and Professor of Church History at Abilene
Christian University; and Newell Williams, President and Professor
of Modern and American Church History at Brite Divinity School,
Texas Christian University.
They are overseeing the work of eleven other historians researching
and writing A World History of the Stone-Campbell Movement,
which will chronicle the origins and development of those bodies
known today as Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, and the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) which comprise some six
million adherents worldwide.
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