First guests at the Institute in 2021

By Birgit Hallmann

The winter semester is coming to an end here in Tübingen. Last week the English-German Colloquium for New Testament discussed “online” the work of M. Pawlak, Uni Tübingen, about "Paul and Diatribe: Romans as Dialogical, but Not Dialogue."

This week, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, we will be able to welcome again guests to the Institute.

Yuriy Mark and two of the leading Pastors of his Church in Mayen, will meet here for a Pastor´s retreat and for strengthen their relationship, and discuss church-related matters. Yuriy graduated, together with 5 other colleagues from TCMI in 1997, the first ever graduates from Ukraine. One of his professors at Haus Edelweiss was former Institute director Ronald E. Heine, who travelled across to Heiligenkreuz to teach History of Doctrine. After graduation, Yuriy started a bible college (Tavriski Christian Institute) back in Ukraine. In 2011 he entered the Doctor of Ministry programme at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Yuriy visited us in Tübingen previously in October 2017 for studies on his research work about  reconciliation between Christian communities in the Middle East, exploring how remembering and commemorating the victims of violence on all sides of a conflict might create the space for understanding and forgiveness between Christians. 

Yuriy Mark at the Institute,
Oct. 2017