News for Current students

Friday, November 1, 2019

Sarah 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.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

2020 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.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

TMTC 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.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

God and Abuse: A TMTC Peace Theology Course this Fall

Every other year the Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre, which is part of Conrad Grebel University College, teaches a course on-campus at the Toronto School of Theology. These courses bring an Anabaptist perspective to various theological topics. Recent courses include Peace Church Theology taught by Professor Jeremy Bergen and The Eucharist/Lord's Supper in Ecumenical Perspective taught by Professor John Rempel.

We are delighted that this fall, Carol Penner, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, will be teaching CGT 3511 God and Abuse: Theology Close to Home.

Friday, March 29, 2019

TMTC Public Lecture Packs the House

“Our task this evening is to go in pursuit of a mystery and its implications for how we believe and how we live our lives.” It is with these words that Dr. John D. Rempel began his lecture, “An Impossible Task: Trinitarian Theology for a Radical Church?” in front of a packed audience at the Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre on the evening of Thursday, March 14th. In his wide-ranging lecture, Rempel explored Trinitarian thinking from the 4^th to the 20^th century, noting the consistent challenges brought against it from “un-trinitarian expressions of belief.”