Princeton, NJ, January 29, 2009–The Reverend Cynthia A. Jarvis, minister and head of staff at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will give the annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Thursday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center on the Seminary campus. Her lecture is titled “Ministry in the Subjunctive Mood.”

An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA), Jarvis served as associate minister of Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton from 1981 to 1996, and was adjunct staff to the Pastor-Theologian Program at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.

Her publications include articles in Interpretation, The Presbyterian Outlook, Presbyterian Survey, Theology Today, and The Christian Century. With Michael Welker of Heidelberg University, Jarvis coedited Loving God with the Mind: The Pastor as Theologian (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004), to which she contributed the chapter “Midrash and the Recovery of Biblical Authority.” In the spring of 2009 Eerdmans will publish The Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Formation and Practice of the Pastor-Theologian, which Jarvis coedited with Wallace Alston.

Recipient of a 2004 Clergy Renewal Grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Jarvis studied the Fra Angelico frescoes at the Dominican Cloisters of San Marco in Florence. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Women in Church and Ministry Lecture is sponsored annually by Princeton Theological Seminary’s Women in Church and Ministry Committee.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Its first woman graduate to receive a professional degree for ministry was Muriel von Orden Jennings, who graduated in 1932. Princeton is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 600 students in six graduate degree programs. For more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.