Evangelical
Seminary of Theology
EVENTS
/ FEBRUARY 2009
Credits
Contacts
Leadership
Professor
Interviews
9TH
MEETING OF THE BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY COURSE
BISHOP
FRANK T.GRISWOLD AND BARBARA BRAVER AT SET
MERCEDES GARCIA
BACHMANN, ARGETINIAN BIBLICIST WAS AMONG US
PRE-DEFENSE OF
SOME DIPLOMA WORKS BY THE 4TH-YEAR
STUDENTS
RETIRED PASTOR OF
PECUSA VISITED THE
SET
80TH
ANNIVERSARY OF CAMILO TORRES RESTREPO’S
BIRTHDAY
ANNUAL
THEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE AT SET
INTEGRATION OF
EXPERIENCES:
DORCAS GORDON AND A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT
SET
THE
SET GOES TO THE XVIII INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
2nd
MEETING OF MASTERY PROGRAM ACADEMIC COURSE
2008-2009
THE
BOARD OF DIRECTION MEETS
TEMPORARY GENERAL
SECRETARY OF THE CLAI VISITED US
COMING
ACTIVITIES
9TH MEETING OF
THE BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY COURSE
From 9 to 6 February, took place the
ninth meeting of the non-resident program of Bachelor of Theology. This time the
students worked two subjects: “History of the Church III”, taught by Francisco
Rodes Gonzalez and “Liturgy by
BISHOP FRANK
T.GRISWOLD AND BARBARA BRAVER AT SET
From 16 January to 10 March, Frank
T. Griswold, 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the 
Episcopal Church of US and Barbara Braver,
journalist, editor and his assistant for communication, visited the
SET.
During their stay, they accomplished
a good deal of activities such as lectures, lessons and devotionals at the
chapel. They also visited some local churches of the province and of
MERCEDES GARCIA
BACHMANN, ARGETINIAN BIBLICIST WAS AMONG US
Throughout the week 2’6 February,
the Argentinean Lutheran Pastor, Mercedes Garcia Bachmann, Doctor of Theology, a
specialist in Old Testament and professor at the University Institute ISEDET,
was among us to teach an intensive course on Wisdom Literature, on the Bachelor
and Mastery Program.
The books of Job, Ecclesiastes,
Psalms, Proverbs, Esther and Ruth were the subjects of this course. She wanted
to speak about them: “there are books in the Bible which are very familiar to
people but all books are important. I am very interested in Ecclesiastes, the
Psalms and Proverbs. These books concentrate about the concerns of the world
worries, as the pain, the reward, the search of the wisdom, the question: what
we work for and not only for the Israelites, so they are very valid today. Some
of these books are not studied enough today, like Ruth and Esther. This is so,
not because of the books in themselves, but because of the way the biblical
courses are focused. Ruth has much to do with the issue of the poverty, the
hunger, the migrations and the unaccompanied women who must search for a living.
The book of Esther is related to the power and to gain access to it. The Psalms
deals with the every-day feelings. It is also one of the most quoted books in
the New Testament.
Professor Bachmann also participated
as a guest at
BISHOP GRISWOLD PRESENTED TWO
LECTURES AT “MAURICIO LOPEZ, FAITH AND SOCIETY”
CHAIR
On January 27 and on February 3,
Bishop Griswold presented two lectures at “Mauricio Lopez, Faith and Society”
Chair: “Changes ant the change agents in American Society” and “The mystery of
the incarnation and the language of the symbols and the art”. Professors and
students of SET participated in both
activities.
PRE-DEFENSE OF
SOME DIPLOMA WORKS BY THE 4TH-YEAR
STUDENTS
The pre-defense of some diploma
works by the 4th-year students took place 9 and 10 February. They
will have the Bachelor of Theology Degree in June 2009. They finished a chapter
of their work, the proposal of their scheme and the bibliography they will use.
In this discussion, the faculty participated, students and professors. Next, the
relation of the students and titles of the presented
chapters:
Maykel Baez
Bruffau: “Searching for a meeting: a pastoral accompaniment
to families affected by the emigration process.”
Armando Guedes Hernandez: “A
proposal to reach plenitude on life in old age”
Dámaris Oms
Martinez: “Sara, Agar, Rebeca, Raquel and Lea.
Predecesors of the salvation
history.”
Milagros Perez
Gomez: “The Recovering of the Spirituality in the Anonymous
Alcoholic Community as an alternative of life.”
Adianés Ponce
Billabong: “The Religious Experience: a philosophical
discussion.”
Jose Sergio
Troyano Botello: “A Set of Actions contributing to make better the
care to deaf-blind people at the Cuban churches.”
RETIRED PASTOR OF
PECUSA VISITED THE SET
A group of thirteen retired pastors of the
Presbyterian
80TH
ANNIVERSARY OF CAMILO TORRES RESTREPO’S
BIRTHDAY
The reflection and solidarity group
“Oscar Arnulfo Romero”, together with the Memorial Center Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., the Center of Studies of the Cuban Council of Churches 
(CECIC) and the Evangelical Seminary of Theology
(SET), with the support the National Office of the Martiana Organization of
Solidarity; the Foundation of the New Latin American Movies and Organization of
Solidarity with people of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAL) summoned to a
conference from 3 to 15 February, in order to celebrate the 80th
anniversary of Camilo Torres Restrepo,a Colombian guerrillero, priest,
sociologist and university professor.
The aim of these working days was to
try to remember his life, his tireless struggle for social justice and the human
freedom as an indispensable way to the peace and to think about his coherent
ecumenical vocation, his messages to diverse social sectors an his concept of
“effective love”.
Many activities were programmed
during this congress. Among them: a theological workshop on the concept
“effective love” taking place on Monday, February 9th at SET, with a
panel constituted by the theologian Dr
ANNUAL
THEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE AT SET
The annual theological conference was celebrated at
SET on past 12 to 14 February. This time with the participation of the renowned
Irish Theologian bubbliest John Dominic Crossan and some guests from 
Church congregation, in Fredericton, Ontario. The
crowded delegation of Canadian professors and students of Theology from the
“Among the different kinds of
justice in the Bible, there are also there is the distributive justice and the
retributive justice. The first one refers to the delivery, is a sort of justice
of equality, the bread is given to the poor, to the sick people and to the
outcasts And the second one consists in the return of the original rights. We
can not separate the justice from the love. That is a Christianity error. We
have tended to separate them, but the justice without love is brutality and it
is just banality.
To the question about this subject,
Professor Grossan answered that “I turn nervous when someone speak about peace
and justice, because the order should be: first justice and as a result of it,
the peace. The justice comes first. For the Roman, peace came first. Peace meant
the victory and the victory meant war.”
INTEGRATION OF
EXPERIENCES: DORCAS GORDON AND A
GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT SET
The Canadian theologian Dorcas
Gordon and a group of young people from the Knox 
College of Canada came to the SET from 16 to 20
February, together with a group of young people who are studying at the Faculty.
They came from different denomination and countries and from different
ages.
The theologian Dorcas has been a
friend of SET for fifteen years. In this occasion she wanted to share here
experience: “we are passing this week in
THE SET GOES TO
THE XVIII INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
As every February, in the magic and
interesting corner of La Cabaña Fortress took place the XVIII International Book
Fair, always anxiously expected by students and professors of the SET. Cached in
the world of books, the time passed too fast to get back home with the hands
full of knowledge.
2nd
MEETING OF MASTERY PROGRAM ACADEMIC COURSE
2008-2009
16 and 17 February, took place at
SET the 2nd Meeting of the Mastery program of the
academic course 2008-
economist Rolf Haan, from the Protestant church of
Netherlands and the Brazilian Lauri Emilio Wirth, professor of Theology at San
Pablo Methodist University.
The economist Haan taught a course
of “Economy and Theology: basically concepts to interpret the economic reality and
the theologian perspective” and Doctor Wirth approached the subject “Religion
and religiosities in the Reform context”.
Dr Haan spoke about her course, “it
is necessary to search for an own logic for the popular economy, instead of a
capital logic, I mean from the experiences the people
have.”
“This course –stated Wirth- help to
establish the relionship between Theology and faith with the social changes of
the moment and its implications for the present, over all for
THE BOARD OF
DIRECTION MEETS
On 19 February, the Board of
Direction of our seminary had his ordinary meeting to agreed, damong other
subjects, the 2008 general report and the new Regulations. It was also agreed
the schedule of programmed activities for the ending of the course
2008-
TEMPORARY GENERAL
SECRETARY OF THE CLAI VISITED US
Nilton Giese, temporary General
Secrtary of the CLAI and Reverend Jorge Daniel Zijlstra, secretary for the
region Caribbean and the Big Colombia came to Cuba to participate in the
election of the National Board CLAI-CUBA which is
joining the new style of working of the Latin America Council of Churches, for
establishing strategies of work from the needs of each country and region
reaching new answers to the challenges in this continental
organism.
To make good use of his trip to
He wished to recall and to share his
experience as professor of Practical Theology during almost two decades, living
two years in the campus, as a part of the exchange program with the Superior
School of Theology (EST)
It is very important to remark that
during this visit Reverend Nilton Giese and Reverend Jorge D. Zijlstra, Regional
Secretary of the CLAI for the Region of the Caribbean and the Big Colombia, met
with the rector and a group of important leaders of the church in Cuba to follow
working the agenda for the next celebration of the80th anniversary of the
Congress of Havana. In this meeting, it was made deeper the importance of that
conclave and it is expected to count on the impacting agenda with well known
leaders of the present Protestant Theology, remarkable Latin American leaders
and from the Northern churches. It is foreseen that the preaching of the close
activity world be in charge of the Argentinean Bishop
Pagura.
COMING
ACTIVITIES
16 to 20
March
7th
Meeting Bachelor of Christian Education
5
April
Lent
Pilgrimage
12
April
Easter
Sunday Service
27 April-1
May
10th
Meeting Bachelor of Theology
4 to 8
May
8th
Meeting Bachelor of Christian Education
18 to 29 May
3rd
Meeting of Mastery
INTERVIEWS BARBARA
BRAVER
When I first came to the
Seminary in 2006 for a visit of less than a day I had no idea that I would ever
return, 
and that the paths and trees, the buildings and the
gardens, would become familiar to me and that the Seminary would feel like my
second home. In 2006 I came to S.E.T. as part of a group accompanying
Bishop Frank Griswold, who was the 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate
of the Episcopal Church. During those days I served as his Assistant for
Communication.
I was delighted when he
received an invitation from the Rector to come back to the Seminary both last
year and this year to teach and I was invited to come along and assist. I
have much enjoyed taking part in the life of the Seminary and, most of all,
coming to know the students, faculty, staff and all of the people who make up
the community of the Seminary.
During the last month
Bishop Griswold gave lectures both to Anglican students and to the Seminary
community. He also visited and preached in various churches and, at the
invitation of Bishop Miguel Tamayo, gave a retreat for the clergy of the
Episcopal Diocese of Cuba.
We were very happy with
the election of Barack Obama as President of the
Meanwhile, we have made
great bonds of friendship during our time here
Barbara Braver served the
Episcopal Church as Assistant to the Presiding Bishop for Communication for 18
years during the terms of two Presiding Bishops. Prior to that she was
Director of Communication for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts with
responsibility for the diocesan newspaper as well as other audiovisual
communication and media relations. Her university education was in English
and journalism and she has worked for secular newspapers and non-profits
corporations. She continues to work as an editor and writer and to give
lectures and retreats. Most recently, along with Bishop Griswold, she gave
an Advent retreat at the
DIRECTIVA
DEL SET
Presidente
de la Junta Directiva:
Vice-Presidente
de la Junta Directiva:
Secretaria: P. P.
Ismael Madruga Sotolongo , Lic.
lll
Rector:
Vice-rector:
Pablo
Decano:
Vice-decano:
Capellanas: Norca Iglesias Zúñiga, Lic y
PROFESORES
TITULARES
Clara
L. Ajo Lázaro, Th.D. Teología
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PROFESORES
INVITADOS
Prof.
Ildefonso Acosta Escobar
Música, Prof.
Director:
Edición,
Diseño y Composición:
Elizabeth González Rodríguez,
Ing.
Redacción
Elizabeth González
Rodríguez, Ing.
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