George Ogalo, 3rd year MDiv in biblical studies reflects on Dr. Mercer’s Cultural World of the Bible course, “The political and cultural circumstances under which the Jews lived at the time of Jesus were strikingly international. It’s amazing the way Christianity developed from that context.”

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Black recommends Chasing the Eastern Star by Mark Allan Powell. “Although the book pushes the envelope of evangelical hermeneutics, it’s an entertaining and fascinating example of current trends in narrative studies of the gospels. The content is academic but the writing style is so lively, I find myself laughing out loud as I read it.”

Metsnanat, age 7, is in her office at the Accelerated Christian Education learning centre at Pistis School on campus. She says, “My favorite subject in A.C.E. is English.”

“I have learnt that there is nothing new in the Bible, that all I discover in it was discovered long ago by someone else. That I should be keener in interpreting it, from other perspectives rather than only in my own personal convictions.” Damaris Wambui Matindi, first year student,learned in Dr. Peter Nyende’s hermeneutics class.

In 1993 Dr. Samuel Ngewa became acting principal of NEGST.

Dr. Robert Carlson, Professor at NEGST, recommends Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers by David B. Kronenfeld, saying, “Biblical exegetes, conditioned (as we all are) by their culture, sometimes expect words—such as human, God, body—to hold the same meanings universally. Kronenfeld’s work on comparative semantics in anthropology raises interesting issues as we think our way towards truly enculturated theological categories.”

Couples’ candle light movie night
This Valentine’s day the Couples’ Valentine event will be a Snaky candle lite, movie night.

Day:13th February 2010
Venue:Chapel
Time:7:30pm

“They say you only fall in love once, but that can’t be true…because every time I look at you, I fall in love all over again”.

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Dr Bill Black, lecturer in Theology and Christian History recommends Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright.  “N.T. Wright succeeds in rescuing the Jesus found in the New Testament from the confusion of many critical studies of the New Testament in general and of the gospels in particular. Wright puts Jesus in his proper first century Jewish context in a manner that transforms the usual ways these texts have been understood and applied.”

Two babies were dedicated in the chapel last week: Baraka, the child of Mr. & Mrs. Fabien Munyagisenyi, and Sheena, the child of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kimani.

Tony Wilmot became the first Principal of NEGST in 1983. The library is named after him.