Denver Seminary
| Type | Evangelical Seminary |
|---|---|
| Established | 1950 |
| Endowment | $12.2 million |
| Chancellor | Gordon MacDonald |
| President | Dr. Mark Young |
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Academic staff
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36 (Spring 2015) |
| Students | 952 (Fall 2014) |
| Location | Littleton, Colorado |
| Website | http://www.denverseminary.edu |
Denver Seminary is an accredited, graduate-level institution based in Littleton, Colorado with extension campuses in Washington DC and West Texas. It offers Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry, and Master of Theology degrees with numerous specialized concentrations and has enrollment of about 900 students. It is known for its emphasis on training and mentoring as an integral aspect to seminary education. Denver Seminary adheres to the National Association of Evangelicals Statement of Faith.
The evangelical theological stance of Denver Seminary is captured by the words of the late chancellor Vernon Grounds:
Here is no unanchored liberalism, freedom to think without commitment. Here is no encrusted dogmatism, commitment without freedom to think. Here is a vibrant evangelicalism, commitment with freedom to think within the limits laid down in Scripture.
This statement was first used by Grounds to stake out Denver Seminary's theological position in the midst of conflict between moderately conservative and ultra-conservative factions of the Conservative Baptist Association that eventually led the ultra-conservative faction to withdraw from the CBA and found the Conservative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). Grounds, formerly the academic dean of fundamentalist Baptist seminary in New York state affiliated with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, eventually became a key spokesperson for the evangelical movement that attributes its roots to the writings of Carl F. H. Henry. Under his leadership, Denver Seminary became firmly rooted in this theological camp.
Today, Denver Seminary is a non-denominational, evangelical seminary that still holds to this statement by chancellor Vernon Grounds.
Denver Seminary was founded in 1950 by members of the newly founded Conservative Baptist Association. This is a group of churches that separated from the Northern Baptist Convention over theological differences stemming from the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy conflict earlier in the twentieth century. The school was originally known as the Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary and, in 1982, changed its name to Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary. The school changed its name again in 1998 to Denver Seminary to reflect its growing appeal to a wide-spectrum of evangelical students. Students are required to sign the statement of faith used by the National Association of Evangelicals.
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