Letter from Dean Love
Life at Candler is full of exciting developments. We begin the 2008–2009 academic year in a wonderful new building with state-of-the-art teaching facilities and fresh office space for faculty and staff. Soon the second phase of our building program will provide an expanded home for the extraordinary collections of the Pitts Library and a teaching chapel. Added to these welcome new facilities will also be a number of new, talented faculty. They join an already stellar group of scholars dedicated to educating exceptional leaders for Christian ministries. Together faculty, staff, and students create a warm, friendly, vibrant, diverse, intellectually engaging, and spiritually enriching atmosphere in which we all deepen our understandings of and commitment to the Christian tradition.
Candler’s mission is to educate faithful and creative leaders for the church’s ministries in the world. We are grounded in the Christian faith and shaped by the Wesleyan tradition of evangelical piety, ecumenical openness, and social concern. Candler undertakes its mission within Emory University, an institution enthusiastically committed to the study of and engagement in religion. This includes a vibrant relationship with The United Methodist Church. Emory provides an environment within which Candler faculty, students, and staff together broaden and strengthen the school’s commitment to forming Christian leaders prepared to face opportunities and challenges of ministry in the twenty-first century.
I hope through these pages you are able to sense something of the Candler community, its rich variety of people and theological perspectives, the remarkable talent of a faculty passionately committed to teaching, and the immense resources of and opportunities within Emory and Atlanta. Come visit us to sample firsthand our hospitality and to understand better this remarkable place and the opportunities that await you here.
Dr. Jan Love
Dean, Candler School of Theology