ABC-USA Seminaries

[Shawn Koester]

The ABC-USA seminaries I have familiarity with are American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley where I took my Baptist History/Polity class last semester, Wake Forrest Divinity in North Carolina, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity, and Northern Seminary has a more conservative reputation.

[Tim Bonney]

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: Yea Tim, I too was a bit surprised to see Wake on Shawn's list. It probably should also be mentioned that Palmer is the former Eastern Baptist Seminary.

And for those not aware of ABC-USA seminaries, Andover Newton is in Massachusetts, I am not sure that it is in Boston proper but it is in that Mertro complex.

[Tim Bonney]

[Tim Bonney]

It might be worth mentioning that one of the differences between ABC seminaries and SBC seminaries is that the ABC seminaries are not funded by the denomination and are not controlled by the ABC/USA. IMO this leads to the ABC seminaries being less denominationally political than the SBC seminaries and their Presidents have been in the past.

It also means that ABC seminarians don't get the same kind of financial aid that Southern Baptist students at one time got for attending and SBC seminary. Seminary has gotten very expensive in many denominations.

[Haruo]

[Tim Bonney]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Tim Bonney]

[Shawn Koester]

[Haruo]

My dad got his S.T.M. from Newton (before it coalesced with Andover) in the late 'forties, meanwhile doing his student pastorate as youth minister at FBC Malden. I wonder what will become of the campus, which has some nice auld buildings which I visited in 2006 en route to my assistant teaching gig with NASK at SIT in Brattleboro.

[Tim Bonney]