The 2011 Summer Institute


The Greenville Seminary Summer Institute for 2011 will tackle one of today's hottest topics in Christian apologetics, science and biblical theology - Creationism.

The Summer Institute is scheduled for August 1-5 at the Seminary. This course is open for public registration for a fee of $225. Enrolled GPTS students taking the course will receive two credits and must pay the regular tuition rate of $340 or may audit the course for $40.

This year, however, the Institute will include a
free evening presentation for the public on Monday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., featuring the internationally renowned Creationist
Dr. Jonathan D. Sarfati
, a physical chemist, spectroscopist, and chess master formerly of Brisbane, Australia, now living in Georgia. Dr. Sarfati, editor of publications for Creation Ministries International, is noted for taking an uncompromising stance on the origins of the universe, the earth, and life, and for defending Scripture in a straightforward manner against any attempt to "reconcile" it with "scientific data" that contradict it.

Also teaching during the Institute along with Dr. Sarfati will be Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr., president of Greenville Seminary and professor of historical and systematic theology. Dr. Pipa has been an outspoken defender of a literal six-day creation view and is co-author of the book Did God Create in Six Days?

Topics for this year's Institute include:

  • Design, Deluge and Dilemma with Q&A (free Monday night public presentation)
  • Refuting Compromise
  • Real Science Supports the Bible
  • Are Miracles Scientific?
  • The Voyage that Shook the World
  • The Christian Roots of Science
  • Incarnation and Genesis
  • Creation and Bioethics
  • Incredible Design in Nature
  • Exegetical Defense of Creationism
  • A Critique of Alternative Positions
  • OPC and PCA Reports

A detailed schedule with class topics is available by clicking here.

For more information, contact Registrar Kathleen Curto at (864) 322-2717, ext. 302 or by e-mail at registrar@gpts.edu.

See GPTS Faculty Statement on Creation.

 

 

Jonathan Sarfati

Jonathan Sarfati was born in Ararat, Australia in 1964. He moved to New Zealand as a child and received his early education there. He graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry with two physics papers substituted, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry, based on his thesis: A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules. He has also had papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals including co-authoring in the journal Nature on high-temperature superconductors in 1987, when he was 22.

Ethnically Jewish, Sarfati converted to Christianity in 1984. In 1996 he moved to Brisbane, Australia to work for the Creation Science Foundation (now Creation Ministries International) as co-editor of their magazine, Creation, and the peer-reviewed Journal of Creation. Sarfati has written numerous publications, including five books. Refuting Evolution, his first book, a rebuttal to the National Academy of Sciences' teachers' guidebook Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science, was published in 1999. It has since sold more than 450,000 copies. This was followed by a sequel, Refuting Evolution 2, a response to a major PBS/Nova 7-part series and a Scientific American article. In 2004, he wrote Refuting Compromise as a rebuttal of the day-age creationism of Hugh Ross, which treats the days of Genesis 1 as long ages, in an attempt to harmonize that account with the belief that the earth is billions of years old. "15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History" is a short book (co-authored with Don Batten) to summarize the theological case for taking Genesis at face value. A major book published in 2008, is By Design: Evidence for Nature's Intelligent Designer - the God of the Bible. His latest major book is The Greatest Hoax on Earth?, a detailed refutation of Richard Dawkins' book The Greatest Show on Earth. Sarfati has also authored a number of booklets, besides contributing chapters and articles to numerous books and magazines, as well as many of the articles on the Creation Ministries International and Answers in Genesis websites. He is a popular speaker at churches and conferences on the issue of creation versus evolution.

Sarfati also maintains a keen interest in chess. A former New Zealand national chess champion (1987/88), he represented New Zealand in three Chess Olympiads. In a tournament in Wellington in 1988, he drew with former World Chess Champion Boris Spassky. He enjoys playing chess "blindfold", i.e. playing from memory without sight of or any physical contact with the board, and has been known to play twelve such games simultaneously.

 
   

Register Now!


Tuition for the Summer Institute is $225. Take $25 off of additional registrations, should other people in your church register to attend with you. You may pay by check, major credit card, or register securely online. Please register by Friday, July 15, 2011 for the Summer Institute and by July 1 for the summer theology course on Studies in Southern Theology. After July 15, a $25 late registration fee for the Summer Institute will be applied.

Theology students who would like to take either course for graduate level (MDiv) credit must have registered by July 1. GPTS students must register by May 13. Pastors Pastors who take the course are eligible for 30 continuing education units. A certificate will be awarded at the end of the course upon its completion.

Begins: Monday, August 1 at
6 p.m.
Ends: Friday, August 5 at 12 p.m.


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