Regent World Fall 2003

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THE REGENT

Fall 2003 • Volume 15, Number 1

Place and Space INSIDE: Place and Space ........1-2 Continuing Support...............3 Faculty Profile..................4 Translations of the Word ........5 Annual Report..............6-7 Summer School Students ........8-10 Faculty News .................10 Regent College Publishing .........11 Upcoming Events................11 Bookstore.........12

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ocated in the heart of Austria, Schloss Mittersill is a 16th-century castle that hosts conferences, personal and communal retreats, and offers courses through a study centre. The setting is gorgeous, with the castle perched high on the side of a mountain overlooking the Italian Alps, with views down the valley that take your breath away. While teaching at the Schloss this summer, I was impressed by the rich history of the castle. I sensed that I was participating in a much larger story than my own as I walked the corridors. From Mittersill, our family went to Italy and spent four days in Venice and another four days in Rome. I was struck again and again by the grandeur of those two cities and was fascinated with the buildings that graced the landscape. Frankly, it is hard for me to describe the experience of walking around the Piazza San Marco, St. Peter’s Basilica, and drinking in Michelangelo’s work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I came home with a renewed appreciation for the importance of place and space. Yet, is it only the sense of centuries of history and the grandeur of architecture that lends consequence to places and spaces? Returning to Regent my first day back, I drove on to the University Endowment lands and was impressed again with the beauty of

Crucifixion of Our Lord 16th-century, Cretan School, Collection of Heiko Schlieper (see p.5). Photo by Bruce Jeffrey

this place. The blue of the ocean, the silent majesty of the mountains, and the richness of the trees and flowers provide such a beautiful context for an academic environment. Not many evangelical institutions in Canada have such geographical privilege. As Regent’s building came into view, sitting right at Gate One of the University of British Columbia, I was reminded again of


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