Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education

CAPPE/ACPEP, 7960 St. Margaret's Bay Road, Ingramport, NS B3Z 3Z7

CAPPE / ACPEP - Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education:

• is a national multifaith organization which is committed to the professional education, certification and support of people involved in pastoral care and pastoral counselling.

• provides educational programs for lay persons and clergy who are preparing to become chaplains, pastoral counsellors, ministers, priests, or community based pastoral care workers.

• provides education and certification for supervisors and specialists.

• is concerned with a holistic approach to health care and personal development with a special focus on spiritual and religious care.

Contact Information

Mr. Tony Sedfawi, Membership Services
E-mail: office @ cappe.org
Tel: 1-866-442-2773 (For all North America); 902-820-3085
Fax: 902-820-3087
Website: http://www.cappe.org

Canadian Churches' Forum for Global Ministries

TST Building; 47 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON, M5S 2C3

The Canadian Churches' Forum was founded in 1921 as the "Canadian School of Missions" by a number of Canadian churches and theological colleges. Over the years, the organization has also been known as the "Ecumenical Institute" and the "Ecumenical Forum". The Forum has played a unique role among the Canadian churches in preparing people for cross-cultural mission and ministry.

The Forum counts among its members: the Anglican Church of Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, the Scarborough Foreign Mission Society and the United Church of Canada. We operate under the aegis of the Canadian Council of Churches and work closely with other denominational and ecumenical organizations. The Forum continues a process begun at its inception, fostering a deep spirit of fellowship and solidarity among groups and individuals of distinct traditions and beliefs, involved in global ministry.

In addition to providing programs for people involved in cross-cultural global mission and ministry, the Forum also annually sponsors an international visitor and produces a semi-annual newsletter, the "Forum Focus" with an educational supplement, "In Focus". We also present the annual Katharine Hockin Award to a Canadian who has made a significant contribution to global mission or ministry.

Each year the Forum sponsors a conference for theological students with The Canadian Theological Students' Association (CTSA). Since its participation in the formation of the Toronto School of Theology, the Forum has provided TST students with access to courses and other resources with a mission/global perspective.

Contact Information

Carlos Parra, Coordinator
E-mail: coordinator @ ccforum.ca
Tel: 416-924-9351
Website: http://www.ccforum.ca

Centre for Asian Theology (Emmanuel College)

75 Queen's Park Cres., 3rd floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 1K7

The Centre serves as a theological resource and support to Emmanuel College, the Toronto School of Theology, and the Asian United Churches of the Greater Toronto Area. The Centre was offically launched at Emmanuel College in the fall semseter of 1996, following Professor Jong-Hwa Park's initiative in fall 1993, and later with the help of President Chai-Yong Choo of Hanshin University. Provision was made for an exchange of theological books between Emmanuel and Hanshin. The ensuing Agreement of Co-operation between Hanshin and Victoria/Emmanuel, begun in 1994-95, includes student and faculty exchanges between the two institutions.

Resources available include theological works in Korean which are catalogued and integrated into the Emmanuel Library. So are titles from the Canadian unit ofthe Mobile Resource Case of PAACCE (Pacific Asian American Canadian Christian Education Ministries). Theological works in Chinese and other Asian languages are available for browsing in Room 107, together with newsletters, pamphlets, and materials in English on Asian and Asian-North American Theology and Ministry.

The Centre is open Thursdays from 4:30 - 6:30 PM.

Contact Information

Rev. G.A. Wenh-In Ng
E-mail: gawi.ng @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-585-4539
Website: http://vicu.utoronto.ca/emmanuel/asiancentre/index.htm

Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry (Knox College)

59 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 2E6

The Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry has been established by Knox College to facilitate the theological education of leaders for the rapidly growing Asian-Canadian church in Canada and to encourage their prophetic contribution to The Presbyterian Church in Canada. The Centre assists the College so that the College constantly provides adequate training for Asian-Canadian ministerial candidates. In addition, the Centre helps the College to develop events and programmes for Asian-Canadian clergy and laity.

Contact Information

Prof. Nam Soon Song, Chair
E-mail: knoxasian.centre @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-0371
Fax: 416-978-0371
Website: http://www.utoronto.ca/knox/pages/Asian%20Centre/asian_centre.htm

Centre for Research and Religion in Canada (Emmanuel College)

Room EC 107, Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park Cres., Toronto, ON, M5S 1K7

The Centre for Research in Religion was created at Emmanuel College in 1986 with the assistance of a Lilly Endowment faculty development grant to promote and support the work of scholars in various disciplines in the general area of Canadian religious traditions, with a particular focus on the United Church. It has a close working relationship with the United Church Archives. Over the past twelve years the Centre's mandate has expanded to include international research and scholarship in religion. It continues to provide a setting in which visiting research associates and other interested persons can find stimulation and support for their projects. Through publications, conferences and workshops, the Centre contributes to the informed discussion of important public issues.

Contact Information

Roger Hutchinson, Director
E-mail: r.hutchinson @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-585-4542
Website: http://www.vicu.utoronto.ca/English/page-4-5663-1.html

Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology (SMC)

81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J4

Through the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology, the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael's College seeks to make a contribution to the healing of the Earth in all its life systems, and express its concern for the ecological crisis of the planet. The Institute is a collaborative teaching and research institute that functions at both the basic and advanced degree levels. Founded by Saint Michael's Faculty of Theology in 1991, it has granted the Certificate of Specialization in Theology & Ecology within the Master and Doctoral programmes. Students complete the specialization while concurrently satisfying the requirements of their graduate programme. Interdisciplinary by definition, the Institute facilitates serious contact between the theological disciplines and the scientific, cosmological and cultural paradigm shifts that are informing our times. Interested students should contact the Director of the Institute, Professor Dennis O'Hara.

Contact Information

Professor Dennis O'Hara, Director
E-mail: dennis.ohara @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-926-1300 ext. 3408
Website: http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/eaite/

Karl Barth Society of North America (Emmanuel College)

459 Briar Hill Ave., Toronto, ON, M5N 1M8

Under the auspices of TST, the society was founded in 1972. The Society promoted The Center for Karl Barth Studies founded at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1999 and continues to support and work in co-operation with it.

Contact Information

David Demson

Lonergan Research Institute (Regis College)

15 St. Mary St., Toronto ON, M4Y 2R5

The Lonergan Research Institute is dedicated to preserving, promoting, developing and implementing the work of philosopher-theologian-economist. Father Bernard Lonergan, SJ, a renowned former professor of Regis College. This research facility, set up to honour his memory and perpetuate his work, consists of an Archives which contains Lonergan's legacy of personal papers to which will be added, as they are collected, letters and documents pertaining to his life and work. The Library, successor to the previous Lonergan Centre, contains his published writings, tape recordings and CD ROMs of his lectures, critical studies of his thought, graduate dissertations done in different parts of the world, and various catalogues to facilitate the work of research. Currently, the Publications Office is concerned primarily with editing and publishing the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan through the University of Toronto Press and preserving the audio archives on MP3 files. The Institute, through Regis College, offers graduate seminars and colloquia for faculty, students and visiting scholars.

Contact Information

Ronald C. Chochol, Interim Director
E-mail: Ronald.chochol @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-922-5474 (x 240)
Website: http://www.lonergan-lri.ca

Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies

59 Queen's Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON, M5S 2C4

The Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the oldest humanities research institute in Canada, was founded in 1929 under the auspices of St. Michael's College and the Congregation of the Priests of St. Basil (CSB). Its original founders planned an institution that would provide the essential resources for scholarly research and publication, attract research scholars, and offer academic programmes for a limited number of students on the graduate level. Observing an increasing interest in the Middle Ages, the founders knew that the achievements of that complex era would not be truly understood until scholars were properly trained to read and to interpret documents and other primary sources of the period. The new technological developments of microfilming and photocopying made possible the implementation of the necessary programmes in an institution geographically remote from archives, libraries, museums, and other depositories of the primary materials.

The Institute progressed so well in its first ten years that, in 1939, it was honoured with pontifical status. As the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, it was to be regulated by pontifical Statutes and its governing Council empowered by charter to grant the pontifical Licence in Mediaeval Studies and Doctorate in Mediaeval Studies. Since 1939, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies has remained a relatively small, autonomous academic community with no departmental divisions. It continues primarily to conduct research along historical lines into the culture and institutions of the Middle Ages and to publish the fruits of that research. It also instructs and directs graduate students and fosters the work of post-graduate scholars in all areas of medieval studies. In 1979, the Institute's focus of research and teaching was formally acknowledged as a field of academic endeavour in itself by the papal constitution Sapientia Christiana<>. In 1998-1999 the new Post-Doctoral Licence in Mediaeval Studies was initiated.

Contact Information

Barbara North, Institute Secretary
E-mail: barbara.north @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-926 7142
Fax: 416-926 7292
Website: http://www.pims.ca

TIPE: Toronto Institute for Pastoral Education

TIPE, TST Building, 47 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON, M5S 2C3

The program offered are intended to assist clergy and candidates for ministry, as well as pastoral care workers, to develop a pastoral identity and appropriate skills in the delivery of pastoral care and counselling. Courses are "clinical" insofar as the participants engage in pastoral ministry under supervision. They are experiential, set in a wide variety of contexts and the process follows the guidelines of the Handbook of the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education. This relationship to CAPPE assures participants of quality programmes and of a process that has stood the test of four decades in Canada.

Contact Information

Marc Doucet, Chair
E-mail: marc.doucet @ uhn.on.ca
Tel: 416-603-5378
Website: http://www.tipe.ca

Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre

TMTC, TST Building; 47 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON, M5S 2C3

The Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre is an officially recognized graduate and postgraduate teaching and research centre. It is an independent institution with its own budget and international board made up of representatives from a broad range of Canadian and American Mennonite church bodies and educational institutions. The Centre's intent is to raise the visibility of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition within the TST through course instruction, thesis supervision, sponsorship of lectures, and promotion of ecumenical conversation. The Centre does not register its own students or grant degrees. All teaching of courses, approval of professors, and granting of degrees occur through normal TST channels. It is situated in the TST building.

Contact Information

Jeremy Bergen, Interim Director
E-mail: mennonite.centre @ utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-6078
Website: http://grebel.uwaterloo.ca/tmtc/

Ultimate Reality and Meaning

Institute for URAM; P.O. Box 38; Pickering, ON, L1V 2R2

The International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning is an interdisciplinary association, founded by a professor of Regis College, gathers together scholars in various fields for the study of various views on ultimate reality and meaning. The "Journal Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding" is published four times a year by University of Toronto Press.

Contact Information