Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre
The Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre (TMTC) helps form theological leadership for the church by providing and supporting graduate theological education, particularly at the doctoral level, from a Mennonite perspective in an ecumenical context.
TMTC encourages scholars to grow toward wise theological discernment, spiritual depth and maturity, excellent scholarship, mutual respect and dialogue, ecumenical and global awareness.
Founded in 1990, TMTC is now administered by Conrad Grebel University College on behalf of a binational Mennonite constituency represented by an Advisory Council. It operates within the ecumenical and academic environment of the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto.
Activities
In Toronto
- Graduate teaching and advising
- Structured ecumenical dialogue forums
- Special lectures and forums
- Scholars forums
- Women’s group
- Academic conferences
Across North America
- Graduate student conferences
- Mennonite Scholars and Friends Forum and Reception at AAR/SBL meetings
- Muslim-Christian dialogue
- Sabbatical residence for visiting
- Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholars Network
News
- Nov. 1, 2019Sarah Johnson Wins A. James Reimer Award
Sarah Kathleen Johnson is the winner of the 2019 A. James Reimer Award. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and a Visiting Fellow at the Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre, her academic home while conducting ethnographic research in Toronto.
- Oct. 2, 20192020 Graduate Student Conference Call for Proposals
The planning committee is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the upcoming ninth biennial graduate student conference, to be held at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA from June 18–20, 2020.
- Sep. 4, 2019TMTC Visiting Fellow awarded Essay Prize
The Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies (ACBAS) recently awarded the innagural Julian Gwyn Prize in Baptist and Anabaptist History and Thought to TMTC Visiting Fellow Sarah Johnson.
Events
- Dec. 11, 2019Scholars Forum with Sarina Annis
Sarina Annis is a PhD student at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, where she studies Christian mission work among Indigenous peoples in Treaty 3 territory. She has an MSc in the Anthropology of Religion from the London School of Economics and will present a paper based on her master’s research: “Early Mennonite Missionaries in Quebec: Thinking Through the Anthropology of Christianity.”
- Jan. 8, 2020Scholars Forum with Max Kennel
Maxwell Kennel is a PhD candidate in the department of Religious Studies at McMaster University where he has taught courses on religion and violence (Fall 2018) and the discipline of Religious Studies (Spring 2019). Max will be presenting a paper on "Secular Mennonite Social Critique" that summarizes and develops his work on secular, philosophical, literary, and political Mennonite thought - some of which has recently been published in the Mennonite Quarterly Review and the Journal of Mennonite Studies.
- Feb. 12, 2020Scholars Forum with Zac Klassen
Zac Klassen (alumnus of Conrad Grebel University College, 2015) is currently in his 5th year of his PhD in Religious Studies at McMaster University. He will be presenting a paper entitled "The Theological Representation of Israel and Judaism 'After' Karl Barth."
The Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre is a graduate teaching and research centre of Conrad Grebel University College affiliated with the Toronto School of Theology.