Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
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| Type | Seminary |
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| Established | 1864 |
| President | Rev. Dr. David J. Lose |
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Academic staff
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20 |
| Postgraduates | 265 |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Campus | 14-acre (57,000 m2) |
| Affiliations | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
| Website | http://www.ltsp.edu/ |
Coordinates: 40°03′43″N 75°11′30″W / 40.06194°N 75.19167°W
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP) is one of eight seminaries associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in North America. Located in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, it was founded in 1864, but traces its roots back to the first Lutheran establishment in Philadelphia founded by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg in 1748, with the first regional synod of the Pennsylvania Ministerium.
The seminary has an enrollment of 275 graduate students, with 17 full-time professors. Students come from a number of Christian traditions in addition to the ELCA, including /Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal, , , Church of God in Christ and Mennonite. The current president of the seminary is the Rev. Dr. David J. Lose.
The background of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia dates back to the founding of the Pennsylvania Ministerium in 1748 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the first organized Lutheran church body in North America. LTSP. was founded in 1864, partly in response to the theology being taught at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, which had been established in 1826 about 60 miles (97 km) further west from the Delaware River in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Gettysburg seminary was thought to be too committed to American cultural accommodation rather than confessional Evangelical Lutheran orthodoxy. The Pennsylvania Ministerium had withdrawn that same year (1864) from the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America and in 1867 helped form the more conservative General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America. The rivalry between the two Pennsylvania religious schools has continued to this day, although it is now principally manifested in an annual flag or touch football games and good-natured "trash talk" among alumni at church convocations and conventions.
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