Seminary Student Spiritual Formation: Recommendations Based on a Review of Scripture and a Survey of Evangelical Seminaries

Concern for the spiritual formation in ministerial training has grown in recent years, and reasons for this are discussed. The history of spiritual formation in pastoral training as well as relevant Scriptures are reviewed. Particular attention is given to Christ\u27s earthly ministry as well as key biblical terms related to spiritual formation. Certain expectations based on the weight of Scripture are determined. Results of a spiritual formation survey sent to thirty-five evangelical seminaries and a self-study of the writer\u27s own seminary are analyzed. This project makes recommendations for enhancing seminary spiritual formation efforts

Smooth 2D Coordinate Systems on Discrete Surfaces

International audienceWe introduce a new method to compute conformal param- eterizations using a recent definition of discrete conformity, and estab- lish a discrete version of the Riemann mapping theorem. Our algorithm can parameterize triangular, quadrangular and digital meshes. It can be adapted to preserve metric properties. To demonstrate the efficiency of our method, many examples are shown in the experiment section

The geometry of a vorticity model equation

We provide rigorous evidence of the fact that the modified Constantin-Lax-Majda equation modeling vortex and quasi-geostrophic dynamics describes the geodesic flow on the subgroup of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms fixing one point, with respect to right-invariant metric induced by the homogeneous Sobolev norm $H^{1/2}$ and show the local existence of the geodesics in the extended group of diffeomorphisms of Sobolev class $H^{k}$ with $k\ge 2$.Comment: 24 page