R. Scott Pace就任东南浸信会神学院第七任校长：接替执掌22年的Daniel Akin
位于北卡罗来纳州韦克县Wake Forest的东南浸信会神学院（SEBTS）10月13日在Binkley礼拜堂举行就职典礼，R. Scott Pace正式就任该校第七任校长，接替执掌学校22年的Daniel Akin。
Pace现年51岁，是神学院76年历史上的第七位校长。他已于8月1日接掌校务，Akin在7月31日退休。校董会今年4月一致推选Pace接任：他本人就是东南的校友，2002年获道学硕士、2007年获哲学博士，此前担任教务长兼首席学术官。就职礼上，校董会主席Andy Taylor向他颁授校董会决议和校长勋章，并说：「Pace博士，今天你接过的是一份神圣的托付。」
Pace在约23分钟的就职演说中承诺，学校所做的一切「都只关乎一个名字」：耶稣。他说大使命是这所学校的「心跳」，并提出未来几年学校要持守的五个特征：属灵的、圣经的、神学的、实践的和宣教的。名誉校长Akin也在典礼上亲自向他发出劝勉。
东南浸信会神学院今年有近1,600名神学生，是全美第五大的神学院，其本科学院Judson College在校生1,030人。Pace是美南浸信会六间神学院本轮换届中三位新校长之一。
R. Scott Pace Inaugurated as Seventh President of Southeastern Baptist Seminary
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina, inaugurated R. Scott Pace as its seventh president in a ceremony at Binkley Chapel on October 13, succeeding Daniel Akin, who led the school for 22 years.
Pace, 51, is only the seventh president in Southeastern's 76-year history. He assumed the helm on August 1, a day after Akin retired on July 31. Trustees unanimously elected Pace in April. A two-time Southeastern graduate, he earned his Master of Divinity in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2007, and most recently served as provost and chief academic officer. At the inauguration, Board of Trustees chairman Andy Taylor presented Pace with a resolution and the presidential medallion, telling him: "Dr. Pace, today you receive a sacred stewardship. You inherit a rich theological and missional heritage." President Emeritus Danny Akin delivered a personal charge to his successor.
In his 23-minute address, Pace promised that "in everything we do, it's all going to be about one name": Jesus. He called the Great Commission the school's "heartbeat" and pledged that Southeastern and Judson College would be a spiritual, biblical, theological, practical and missional institution.
Southeastern has nearly 1,600 seminary students this year, making it the fifth-largest theological school in the United States, and its undergraduate school, Judson College, enrolls 1,030 students. Pace is one of three new presidents across the Southern Baptist Convention's six seminaries in a generational leadership transition.
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