Alliance Theological Seminary is an evangelical Christian seminary affiliated with
Alliance University (New York City)
Alliance University (formerly Nyack College ()) is a private Christian college affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and located in New York, New York. Enrolling just over 1,000 students, the school is organized in three academic ...
and the
Christian and Missionary Alliance, located in
Manhattan.
History
The seminary finds its roots from the Missionary Training Institute, a school established by
A.B. Simpson
Albert Benjamin Simpson (December 15, 1843 – October 29, 1919), also known as A. B. Simpson, was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical denomination with an emphasis ...
to train missionaries for world service in 1882. The school eventually became Nyack College, and the seminary stemmed out of its graduate program, founded in 1960 as the Jaffray School of Missions. In 1974, the program was redesigned and subsequently renamed to the Alliance School of Theology and Missions. It took its current name in 1979, and was first accredited in 1990 by the Commission on Accrediting of the
Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
In 2019, Nyack College closed Alliance Theological Seminary in Rockland County and moved all operations to the Manhattan campus.
Programs
The seminary offers a variety of graduate degrees including
M.A. in intercultural studies or biblical literature,
M.P.S.,
M.Div.
For graduate-level theological institutions, the Master of Divinity (MDiv, ''magister divinitatis'' in Latin) is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America. It is the most common academic degree in seminaries and di ...
, and
D.Min.
In addition to the main campus in Nyack, there is a large satellite campus located in
Manhattan, and an extension in
Puerto Rico.
The 2012 enrollment was approximately 800 students.
See also
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Christian and Missionary Alliance
*
Nyack College
References
External links
The Official ATS website
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Educational institutions established in 1960
Seminaries and theological colleges in New York (state)
Private universities and colleges in New York City
Alliance World Fellowship seminaries and theological colleges
1960 establishments in New York (state)
Evangelicalism in New York (state)