Ten Huron University College students will be awarded the master of divinity degree and four students will be awarded the lay certificate in Theology on Thursday, May 7 at The University of Western Ontario’s spring convocation.
The convocation ceremony will be held in Huron’s Kingsmill Room at 4 p.m.
Huron will also confer the Doctor of Divinity degree (honoris causa) on the Rev. Douglas John Hall.
Hall is Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology at McGill University where he served on the faculty from 1975-1995. Prior to his distinguished career at McGill, Hall served as Principal of St. Paul’s United College at the University of Waterloo and then was appointed as a Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Andrew’s Seminary located at the University of Saskatchewan.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Huron College and The University of Western Ontario and then earned three graduate degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Hall has been described by Walter Brueggemann as “the most thoughtful, brooding, steadfast Reformed theologian in North America.” The author of more than 30 books, he is perhaps best known for his full-scale theological trilogy, Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998). In these and a series of related works, Hall brought to realization a lifelong project for the development of a distinctively North American theology, conceived and written on the basis of the principle that the theology of the cross must be the heart and center of all theological and ethical thinking.