Robert Webber Center
It's a wonderful privilege to serve as the Director of the Robert Webber Center. For over a decade, the Webber Center has been a unique place where evangelicals and others can encounter the riches of the Great Tradition in a way that serves the health and vitality of the church today. The Center has helped countless Christians discover the deep wells that rejuvenate faith again and again.
Especially in an age increasingly pressured towards novelty, distraction, and tribalism, the Webber Center helps Christians discover deep roots that promote stability, unity, and faithfulness. My hope is that the Center will continue to gather devoted scholars and practitioners who, as the prophet Jeremiah once said, “ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is” so that we may walk in them and find rest for our souls (Jeremiah 6:16).
Established at Trinity Anglican Seminary in 2012, the Robert E. Webber Center for an Ancient Evangelical Future was founded in honor of the late Robert E. Webber, an American evangelical Anglican theologian whose vision the center broadly seeks to uphold. Through his vision of an “ancient-future” faith, Webber inspired a generation of evangelicals “to recover the conviction that God’s story shapes the mission of the Church to bear witness to God’s Kingdom and to inform the spiritual foundations of civilization.” The Webber Center at Trinity Anglican Seminary seeks to uphold this vision especially through the following three key commitments and activities.
The Webber Center is dedicated to reclaiming the wisdom of the ancient Christian tradition for the life and mission of the church today. In an increasingly secular, postmodern, and post-Christian culture, the Webber Center seeks to retrieve the beliefs and practices that lie at the roots of the Christian tradition, that have stood the test of time, and that will nurture the life and health of the church in our day.
The Webber Center operates in a spirit of orthodox, Nicene ecumenism. Recognizing the real differences that exist between our various Christian traditions, the Center seeks to uphold the lasting truths that all orthodox Christians hold in common. Housed at Trinity Anglican Seminary, an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition, the Center’s vision extends to the broader Protestant and evangelical world, and ultimately to the whole “household of faith.” As such, the Webber Center seeks to be a resource for the whole church while grounded in the Anglican tradition.
The Webber Center seeks to foster doctrinal and spiritual maturity in the church, especially through the promotion of Christian catechesis. As many in our churches lack even a basic grasp of the principles of the Christian faith, rendering them susceptible to the trends of contemporary culture and doctrinal error, the Webber Center champions the renewal of catechesis to bolster Christian formation and maturity for the life of the church today (Ephesians 4:1-16).
The Webber Center hosts regular events at Trinity Anglican Seminary and elsewhere that promote the theological and spiritual renewal of the church through retrieving the wisdom of the Great Tradition. These gatherings not only seek to inform and educate but also to gather and equip a new generation of Christian leaders deeply rooted in the Scriptures and the life of the church.
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The Robert Webber Center supports the training of lay and ordained catechists, especially through the Certificate of Catechesis and Christian Formation at Trinity Anglican Seminary. This six-course certificate, which can also be taken as a master’s concentration, provides students with the historical, theological, and practical training they need to become effective catechists for the church today.
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Ad Fontes is a continuing education program sponsored by the Robert Webber Center that invites clergy and lay leaders into deeper study of key texts and topics in theology and ministry. These semester-length courses occur in both in-person and virtual settings and provide a unique opportunity to incorporate ongoing learning into everyday life.
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Trinity is to be an evangelical seminary in the Anglican tradition. To this end we develop Christian leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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