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Three Ways to Serve Seminarians

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  • Chris Crane

Seminary is a time of discipleship. Therefore, seminarians need the church. How can the church serve the training of pastors? This article provides three ways the church can do this.

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A Church-Controlled Seminary

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  • Herman Hanko

Who should be responsible for theological training? Should the seminary be under the church or independent? This article lays the biblical grounds for a church-controlled seminary, while highlighting the dangers of an independent theological training.

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Practical Theology

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  • Robert D. Decker

What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: Practical theology, with its division into preaching, liturgics, missions, world religions, and catechetics.

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Church History And New Testament Studies

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: the New Testament, and church history.

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A Seminary at Home

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  • Typicus

Are you a pastor without seminary training? This article offers a curriculum for pursuing a theological education on your own.

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Is Seminary Really Necessary?

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  • Tim Challies

Is there a necessity for the seminary? This article argues that though the seminary is not the only means of training pastors, it is advisable. There are four reasons that explain the necessity of the seminary.

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The Minister as a Physician and the Seminary as Medical School (2)

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article draws a metaphor of the minister as a physician and the seminary as medical school. Biblically a link is made between the spiritual and physical condition – sickness and healing. The minister, like a physician, must be trained to correctly diagnose and prescribe. The nature of this work requires training at seminary in order to shape the minister and teach him to use his tools well.

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The Minister as a Physician and the Seminary as Medical School (1)

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article draws a metaphor of the minister as a physician and the seminary as medical school. Biblically a link is made between the spiritual and physical condition – sickness and healing. The minister, like a physician, must be trained to correctly diagnose and prescribe. The nature of this work requires training at seminary in order to shape the minister and teach him to use his tools well.

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Seminary and Saints: A Reciprocal Sine Qua Non (2)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

What is the relationship between believers and the seminary? The author makes it clear that believers serve the seminary and the seminary serves believers. The one cannot exist without the other. The seminary is the work of the church preparing ministers of the Gospel, and true faith depends on the preaching of the Gospel, which is what makes the believer. In this sense seminary and saints are sine qua non.

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Seminary and Saints: A Reciprocal Sine Qua Non (1)

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

What is the relationship between believers and the seminary? The author makes it clear that believers serve the seminary and the seminary serves believers. The one cannot exist without the other. The seminary is the work of the church preparing ministers of the Gospel, and true faith depends on the preaching of the Gospel, which is what makes the believer. In this sense seminary and saints are sine qua non.

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Practical Theology

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  • Robert D. Decker

What are pastors being taught at the theological seminary? Included in their studies should be practical theology, which includes preaching, liturgics, missions, world religions, and catechetics.

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Dogmatics and Old Testament Studies

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

What are pastors being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects which pastors in training must study: 1. Dogmatics (including theology, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology), and 2. Old Testament Hebrew and exegesis.

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Church History and New Testament Studies

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  • Russell J. Dykstra

What are pastors being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects which pastors in training must study: 1. The Greek of the New Testament and the appropriate exegesis of the New Testament, and 2. Church history.

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The Basis and Benefits of Seminary Training

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  • Allen Brummel

God has entrusted His word to the church; therefore, the church has the responsibility to guard the gospel. One of the ways the church can do this is through theological training. This article discusses the basis and benefits of the seminary.

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Seminary Applicants and the Role of the Elders

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

What is the process behind the decision of whether an individual will go to a theological seminary? This article maintains that not only is the individual himself behind the decision, but the church federation and the church elders. Elders have the responsibility to seek out and encourage suitable individuals to consider going into the ministry.

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A Church-Controlled Seminary

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  • Herman C. Hanko

Who should be responsible for theological training? Should the seminary be under the church or independent? This article lays the biblical ground for a church-controlled seminary, while highlighting the dangers of independent theological training. The author ends by showing the benefits of church-controlled seminaries.

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On Choosing a Seminary

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  • William B. Evans

This article gives some aspects for individuals to consider when choosing a seminary to train to become a pastor.

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Towards Scholarly Evangelists and Evangelistic Scholars: The Teaching of Evangelism in Theological Seminaries

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  • John P. Bowen

This article assumes that the ministry of evangelism is necessary to the life and health of the church. The author discusses why the church no longer seems to produce leaders who are both scholarly and evangelistic, and highlights the role of the theological seminary in producing such scholary evangelical leaders.

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Training Ministers

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  • Jack de Jong

This article is about how ministers should be trained: at an theological university, or at an seminary under supervision of the church? It looks at theological training in the Bible and then at the history of theological education in the Netherlands.

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J. Gresham Machen and the Purpose of Reformed Theological Education

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  • Darryl G. Hart

This article is about J. Gresham Machen's view on theological training and theological seminary.

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Pray for the Seminary!

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  • John Piper

The importance of good theological training in shaping the faith and theology of churches, denominations and missionary enterprise cannot be overemphasized. Prayer for the seminary is necessary!

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A New Paradigm for Theological Education?

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  • David Heywood

In this article, David Heywood argues for a different approach to theological education in the seminary.

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