United Theological Seminary

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For the seminary in Minnesota, see United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
United Theological Seminary
President
Kent Millard
DeanDavid Watson
Students488
Location
Trotwood
,
Ohio
,
United States
CampusSuburban, 80 acres
Websiteunited.edu Edit this at Wikidata

United Theological Seminary is a

thirteen seminaries affiliated with the new United Methodist Church (UMC).[2][3]

The school was known as the Bonebrake Theological Seminary from 1909 to 1954.

Although the seminary is affiliated with the United Methodist denomination, students come from many denominations and are ordained by a wide range of denominations upon graduation. The seminary houses a Hispanic Christian Academy,

American Civil Rights Movement later going on to become students or faculty at United.[7][8] In recent years, the seminary has become a leading center for discussion of church renewal.[9][10][11] It has also been named one of the fastest-growing seminaries in the United States.[12]

History

In 1869, the General Conference of the

National Cash Register Company.[16] The three buildings were all completed in 1923, at which time the seminary sold the building it had previously been occupying. The building was bought by the Evangelical School of Theology, which had formerly been located in Reading, Pennsylvania
.

In 1943, the United States government established a top-secret testing site at the Bonebrake Theological Seminary for the Dayton Project, which was part of the broader Manhattan Project, where research was conducted on the creation of an atomic bomb and polonium was produced that would eventually be used in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.[17][18] After many years of planning the Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged with the Evangelical Church, forming a new denomination which would be called the Evangelical United Brethren Church, with which the seminary then became affiliated.[19] As a result of the merger that created the Evangelical United Brethren Church efforts were made to merge the seminaries of the two denominations. In 1954, United Theological Seminary was formed when the existing Bonebrake Seminary (the former United Brethren seminary) merged with The Evangelical School of Theology (the former Evangelical Church seminary located on the campus of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania). Four of the faculty members from the Evangelical School of Theology moved to the new United Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. A new library was constructed in 1952 and a new dormitory completed in 1957, while 1961 saw the completion of a new worship center. In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren Church and The Methodist Church denominations completed a merger to become the present day United Methodist Church and United Theological Seminary merged.[20][21] became one of thirteen seminaries affiliated with the new denomination.

The seminary began offering a

Houghton College, which was in existence until 2005, when school officials decided to shut down the campus and allocate funds to improve other institutional programs.[24] Another campus site had earlier been created at the University of Charleston. That campus was later moved to West Virginia Wesleyan College, which is still a popular venue for students living in the Mideastern United States. Two years after celebrating their 130th anniversary in 2001, the seminary formed the Institute for Applied Theology in 2003, which offers courses and workshops to clergy, lay leaders, and community members. In 2012, the seminary changed the name of the Institute for Applied Theology to the School for Discipleship and Renewal.[25]

In 2005, the seminary moved their campus from Dayton to the suburb of Trotwood, purchasing property at 4501 Denlinger Road, Dayton, Ohio, that was formerly owned by the Dayton Jewish Federation. The school's campus now sits on an eighty-acre piece of land just inside the Trotwood city limits. The main building on the property, formally known as the Jesse Phillips Building, was renovated, and the 78,000-square-foot space now houses the seminary's classrooms, faculty offices, student lounge, bookstore, multimedia recording studio, and library.

distance learning programs and continues to attract students from nearly every state in the United States, as well as from a number of countries around the world. The school celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2011. In 2012 the school was named one of the fastest-growing seminaries in the United States.[30] As of 2012, there are over 5,500 living alumni/ae who are living in all fifty states and over thirty countries around the world. The school has also become a leading center for discussion of church renewal and offers a variety of resources on the subject.[31]

Academics

The seminary offers Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Master of Arts in Christian Ministries (M.A.C.M.), and Master of Ministry (M.Min.) degrees at the masters level, as well as a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree at the doctoral level.[32][33] Students in the Master of Divinity program can choose a number of concentrations, such as Church Renewal, Pastoral Caregiving and Wesleyan and Methodist Studies. Students who live in a geographic area where theological education is not readily accessible can choose one of the seminary's online programs.[34]

The school's Doctor of Ministry program is one of the largest in the nation.

distance learning and online education, as well as the Course of Study School of Ohio online program.[37][38] The school also houses the School for Discipleship and Renewal, which includes the Pohly Center for Supervision and Leadership Formation, the Center for Urban Ministry, the Center for Worship, Preaching and the Arts, the Harriet L. Miller Women's Center, and the Center for Hispanic/Latino Ministries, which all offer classes for enrolled students, clergy, and lay leaders.[39][40][41][42][43][44] In February 2013, the seminary created a new online Hispanic lay ministry school as part of its Center for Hispanic/Latino Ministries.[45]

Accreditation

United Theological Seminary is accredited by the

Association of Theological Schools and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.[46]

Annual events and lectures

The seminary hosts and sponsors a number of conferences, workshops, lectures, and other events every year. In 2012, United began its annual Holy Spirit Seminar, which is one of the most widely attended events held by the seminary. The Holy Spirit Seminar, a conference on church renewal, features speakers and themes from a charismatic or renewalist perspective.[47] The seminary also hosts the annual J. Arthur Heck Lectures, which has recently welcomed speakers such as Walter Brueggemann, Craig A. Evans, and Ted Peters.[48][49][50]

Other speakers to be featured in recent events include

William Willimon, Geoffrey Wainwright, William Abraham, Leonard Sweet, Don Saliers, Amos Yong, Randy Clark, Kenneth Copeland, Violet L. Fisher, Ellen Charry and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.[49][51][52][53]

The seminary also co-sponsored the annual Change the World conference hosted by

Ruby Payne.[54][55] It also hosts and co-sponsors the Ryterband Symposium with the University of Dayton and Wright State University, which featured Jon D. Levenson in 2011 and Richard Elliott Friedman in 2012.[56][57]

United also hosted the 2012 Jesus Conference in which a number of issues related to the Historical Jesus were discussed. Scholars such as Dale Allison, Loren Stuckenbruck and Mark Goodacre, among others, spoke at the event.[58][57]

The influential rabbi Brad Hirschfield has also spoken at the seminary on multiple occasions in recent years.[59] Cornel West, has also spoken at seminary events (and formerly taught in the D.Min program).

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the seminary on several occasions.

Center for Evangelical United Brethren Heritage

A part of United's archives is its Center for Evangelical United Brethren Heritage, which manages archives related to the

Evangelical United Brethren and other related denominations.[60]

Notable alumni

See also: Category:United Theological Seminary alumni

Notable faculty

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