11/7/2024
Appointment in Faculty of EducationThe Faculty of Education is delighted to welcome The Very Revd Dr Jonathan Munn, OblOSB MMath(Warwick), MTh(JHPCU), PhD(Warwick), DTh(JHPCU), FVCM(Th), University Fellow in Theology and Adjunct Instructor to the department as Assistant Professor of Education. A highly respected scholar in the field of Anglo-Catholic Christianity he is also secretary to the Board of Education of the Anglican Catholic Church UK and an experienced school teacher and lecturer in advanced mathematics. His enthusiasm and experience brings a strong new dynamic to the department and we look forward to it developing further with his assistance.
10/30/2024
University Blog PostUniversity Research Fellow in Christian Humanities and Sacred Music Peter Hunter has released a blog exploring the Te Deum Laudamus by Robin Milford. You can read this appraisal of Milford's intriguing work at https://jhpcu.edublogs.org/2024/10/30/the-te-deum-laudamus-of-robin-milford-1903-1959/.
|
Congratulations to The Very Revd Canon Dr Jonathan Munn, who was formally inducted as Canon Theologian to the Rt Revd Dr Damien Mead of the British Diocese of the Anglican Catholic Church. The opportunity was also taken after Mass to record Dr Roy Hipkiss receiving his Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University, Miami, Florida USA, in recognition of Roy’s many years work with disabled children. The degree was presented by Dr Munn, who is a Fellow of the University and a member of the Faculty of Theology. Fr Munn (left), Bishop Mead (centre) and Dr Hipkiss (right). |
Professor Fr Steven G Rindahl, DMin STM was recently honored with the opportunity to give a seminar on identifying and caring for Moral Injury among combat veterans at the 64th International Military Pilgrimage (Pèlerinage Militaire International / PMI) in Lourdes, France. The purpose of the International Military Pilgrimage is to gather members of the many armed forces of the world together for prayer as a sign of peace and goodwill. The PMI works to bear God’s Mercy in the military world and to support the wounded. In support of that purpose, Fr Rindahl provided training on Moral Injury care to the assembled members of clergy and medical personnel supporting the pilgrimage. Unique to this training was the inclusion of tools for implementing therapeutic elements of Christian Spirituality into Moral Injury care with a specific focus on the principles of pilgrimage in the healing process. Archbishop Broglio, the Roman Catholic archbishop for the Archdiocese for Military Services and endorser of all Roman Catholic chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces, attended the seminar and complimented the value of the training. |
5/2/2024
JHPCU Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Christian University for Leadership Education and Development (CULED), Africa
2. Cooperative development of courses and academic programs, if approved
3. Development of joint theological and / or educational research projects
4. Collaboration in the area of academic publications
5. Other activities of mutual interest in academic or theological and educational research
6. Cooperation in international conferences sponsored by both universities
7. Exclusivity of Regional Level Cooperation
9/19/2023
Academic Year 2023-24
jhpcu_academic-calendar-2023-2024-landscape__1_.pdf | |
File Size: | 145 kb |
File Type: |
12/19/2022
December 19th, 2022
Christmas Message 2022
From the Very Rev Dr Jonathan Munn OblOSB, current doctoral student in the Faculty of Theology.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Those of you who have been fortunate to hear Benjamin Brittens adaptation of T. S. Eliots Journey of the Magi may have been struck by that line. It comes as a stark realisation by the Magi that they have struggled and struggled and struggled to get to the Birth of the Christ Child and, when they arrive, they realise that somehow this birth is not a happy birth but hard and bitter. They travel in the very dead of winter, with truculent camels, unreliable servants, night fires going out, and having to travel all night while the voices of the darkness taunt them that what they are doing is all folly. This is all folly. This is all folly.
Its a voice that we hear again and again in our lives. It is a voice that can kill our sense of wonder stone dead. Faced with the challenges of simply living, simply continuing from one day to the next, amid the constant distraction and noise from the business of the world around us, to stand and gaze at the canvas of Creation, or to tilt ones head and listen for the music of Eternity seems all folly.
We look at the year just gone, and we see nothing but the same struggle as Eliots Magi. Emerging from behind masks, closed doors and bottles of hand sanitiser, we find ourselves in a world of economic turbulence, political turbulence, social turbulence a strange land in which the old order has been rocked, a new normal has been promised but is amorphous, unsettling and consuming.
Here in the United Kingdom, our society has been shaken by the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth after an unprecedented length of service. The birth of the third Caroline age is precisely the death of the second Elizabethan. As Sir Terry Pratchett observes, the speed of monarchy is faster than the speed of light. Birth and death do not seem to be different to a world in which any effort to stretch out of the darkness is met with disdain from a universe of indifference. The death of one means the birth of a replacement that is all that is needed. The rocking of our lives as we struggle just to become ourselves is met with that same pitiless indifference and our efforts to shine drowned by a barrage of noise that would make Ligeti sound like Bach. This is all folly.
In this darkness, however, something extraordinary happens. In amidst the cacophony of hopelessness, one single voice penetrates with the word hope and is joined by another voice and together, spem in alium nunquam habui! Hope in any other have I none. And from that darkness, emerges a chorus of voices as coaxed out from Eternity by that other British Composer, Thomas Tallis. The taunts of folly cease with that rising tapestry of sound, order, versicle and response based upon that single word jope, a hope that can be expressed most adequately by the voice of a little child in a school play singing, Away in a manger.
The hard and bitter birth met by the Magi is not that of Our Lord. It is the hard and bitter birth of the Magi themselves realising that it is the death of their old selves that is bringing to birth the new. The Baby is the hope they need in order to slough off the skin of the old man and allow the skin of the new to harden in the light of Christ Himself. In one little manger, Man finds the ability to be renewed, saved from the darkness, saved from the indifference of a chaotically mechanical universe and to find warmth, light, strength and joy.
Here, at our university, we are engaged in this constant sloughing off of our old selves in order to embrace truths that are new to us and yet are older that we can know, having their origin before Time itself and yet emanate from the Ever-New in His manger. Christmas means that we can reach out beyond the material universe into Heavenly Realms through the portal of Our Lords Incarnation: God Himself expects nothing less. As scholars and students, it is our duty to use our work to show our brothers and sisters how they can do just that and shine like stars for all Eternity with the Divine Light.
As a student of the University, I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
11/25/2022
New Fellow in Education
Dr. Brantley, also Registrar of Latimer Theological Institute will collaborate on areas of educational recognition and assist in the supervision of students in the department. We welcome him to Pestalozzi!
8/6/2022
August 06th, 2022
JHPCU Calendar 2022/23 | |
File Size: | 92 kb |
File Type: |
Categories
All Academic Calendar Appointments Book Chaplain Christian Humanities Christmas Conference Divinity Doctoral Degrees Doctor Of Humane Letters Doctor Of Music Doctor Of Religious Studies Documents Fellowship Honorary Degree International Legal Forum JHPU Press Lecture Legal Officer Library Master's Degrees Paper Partner Institution President Provost Publications Religious Studies Research Associate Research Center Sacred Music Scholarship Theology University Merchandise University Officers University Publications
Archives
October 2024
August 2024
May 2024
September 2023
December 2022
November 2022
August 2022
April 2022
December 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
April 2021
March 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
February 2019
November 2018
October 2018
August 2018
July 2018