Independent Presbyterian Church
Savannah, Georgia
February 5 - 7, 2009

Hughes Oliphant Old is the John H. Leith Professor of Reformed Theology and Worship at Erskine Theological Seminary and Dean of the Institute for Reformed Worship. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and completed a D. théol. at the University of Neuchâtel. His 18 years of pastoral ministry, combined with meticulous research, have informed his prolific publishing. Included among his many works are Worship: Reformed According to Scripture and seven volumes on The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church. He and his wife, Mary, have 2 children.

• How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place, O Lord of Hosts (Click on link to hear audio)
• Architecture and the Holy Spirit (Click on link to hear audio)
  

Dr. David Gobel
David Gobel teaches courses in renaissance and baroque architecture, 20th-century architecture, urban form, theory and criticism, and garden and villa architecture. Before coming to SCAD in 1996, he taught at the Oregon School of Design and several other schools in the Portland area. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Texas Tech University in 1981, Master of Architectural History degree from the University of Virginia in 1988 and Ph.D. in the history, theory and criticism of architecture from Princeton University in 1991. His research areas include: 16th-century urbanism in Spain, the theoretical writings of Philibert de l’Orme, and the architecture of the Protestant Reformation and the urban plan of Savannah. Gobel is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Fulbright-Hays/Spanish government fellowship for study in Spain. With Robin Williams, he founded the biennial Savannah Symposium and has co-directed several. He was co-editor of ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and has also edited journals at the University of Virginia and Princeton University. Gobel is an active member of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and served as president from 2005–07.

• Temple or Meetinghouse? Church Building in Historial Perspective (Click on link to hear audio)
• Architectural Hermeneutics (Click on link to hear audio)
• The Architectural Setting of Christian Worship (Click on link to hear audio)
• The City of God in the City of Man (Click on link to hear audio)

Rev. Terry Johnson
Terry Johnson is the Senior Minister of Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia. He received his seminary education at Trinity College in Bristol, England and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He completed his D.Min. at Erskine Theological Seminary in 2008. He is the author of several books, including Reformed Worship, and the editor and compiler for Leading in Worship and the Trinity Psalter.

• The Stones Cry Out: Architecture and Theology (Click on link to hear audio)

Mark E. Ross is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Erskine Theological Seminary and Director of the Institute for Reformed Worship. Prior to joining the Erskine faculty in 2004 he served for twenty years as Associate Pastor for Teaching at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh (B.A.), the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Keele University in England (Ph.D.). He and his wife, Connie, have two children and five grandchildren.

• Images of Divine Things (Click on link to hear audio)