Montreat Conference Center is pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Rigby, a respected friend and frequent speaker at the conference center, as the guest preacher for Sunday worship on July 12 in Anderson Auditorium. Dr. Rigby, the W. C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Austin, TX), is visiting the conference center this week for the nation’s premier celebration honoring the 500th birthday of the Reform theologian John Calvin. Rigby, whose special area of interest is setting Reformed theologies in conversation with theologies of liberation, particularly feminist theologies, has been actively involved in planning and preparation for the “Calvin Jubilee.” Her sermon Sunday, “All Things New,” is taken from Isaiah 65:17-25 and Revelation 21:1-8.Cited as one of the great theologians of our time, Rigby is a prolific writer; co-chair of the Christian Systematic Theology Section of the American Academy of Religion; the “Continuing Resource Theologian” for the Central United States for the pastor/theologian program sponsored by the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ; and most recently, a member of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) taskforce that authored “The Trinity: God’s Love Overflowing,” a document that articulates the relevance of trinitarian doctrine to our lives of faith today.
In 1998, Rigby received the Ph.D. in systematic theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship and the Wildrich Award for Excellence in Homiletics. She earned her M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1989, and her AB, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1986. Prior to her appointment to the Austin Seminary faculty in 1995, she was co-instructor and visiting lecturer at Princeton Seminary, Princeton University, and New Brunswick Seminary. She served on the ministerial staff of the Community Presbyterian Church of Edison, NJ, and the Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, NJ; she spent a year as Pastor of Special Ministries with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines in Cagayan d’Oro City, Mindanao.
Worship this Sunday is part of the continuing Sunday Summer Worship Series at Montreat Conference Center. Worship starts at 11:00 AM in Anderson Auditorium, with child care available for children six months through completed kindergarten at the Updike Child Care Center on Texas Road. Following worship, a lunch buffet will be served at the Galax Dining Room in Assembly Inn, 12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM.
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