Academic Accomplishments

A-R Editions, of Middleton, Wisconsin, recently published an edition of Mexican baroque music by Grey Brothers.  The publication features Brothers' scholarly editions of musical settings of the Passion story according to Matthew, Luke, and John as composed by Antonio Rodríguez Mata, who was maestro of the music at the Mexico City Cathedral from 1614 until his death in 1643.  The book includes an introductory essay that places these works in their historical context.  Brothers also described these and other settings of the Passion in an article, "The More Hispano in the Polyphonic Passions of Mexico City," published in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of the Latin American Music Review. 

David Vander Laan has been appointed to the Board of Editorial Consultants of the journal Faith and Philosophy. Published quarterly by the Society of Christian Philosophers, the journal encourages discussions among philosophers representing a wide variety of theological perspectives and philosophical orientations. David along with his colleagues Mark Nelson and Jim Taylor also travelled to Biola University to participate in a symposium with Oxford University scholar Richard Swinburne on the "Current State of Natural Theology."

For ninth straight year, David Newton been recognized with national "master teacher of entrepreneurship" designation by the EC-Forum sponsored by USASBE, The Coleman Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation, and will join the other senior faculty in facilitating the four-day forum hosted by Oklahoma State University. He also reviewed President Beebe’s book The Shaping of an Effective Leader for FieldNotes.com, a new online journal of Fuller Seminary.