Westminster Theological Seminary

The Westminster Theological Seminary is a private Christian university institution, Presbyterian and Reformed diploma with a campus located in Glenside in Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania ), and Dallas in Texas , and a curriculum in New York , and London. In 1982, the California branch of the seminar at Westminster became an independent institution, the Westminster Seminary California.

Summary 1 History 2 Academic Curriculum 3 references 4 External Links

History

The seminary was founded in 1929, largely under the leadership of John Gresham Machen , with the vision to continue the theological tradition of the Princeton Theological Seminary. Constituted as an independent, he had a close relationship with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church , as Machen founded in 1936. The seminar was the first president Edmund Clowney , who served from 1966 until 1984. He was followed by George and Samuel T. Fuller Logan.Le current chairman is Peter Lillback, who also serves as pastor and head of U.S. Christian group known as the Providence Forum.

The seminar became an accredited school in 1986 by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada ^{Academic Curriculum}

Pastoral formation is the primary objective of the seminar, in addition, Westminster has historically given value to these rigorous academic standards, by requiring that students who fail to master the biblical Greek and Hebrew biblical spend a year in each language,

All administrators and faculty members must affirm their agreement with the theological perspective presented in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Great Westminster Catechism and Small Catechism Westminster , the heart of the doctrine of many conservative Presbyterian churches.

The theological characteristics of the seminar include a commitment to apologetics presupposed ^References

This article was translated into French from English article "Westminster Theological Seminary

External Links

• Westminster Theological Seminary Official site