Frontier School of the Bible is a small
Bible Institute
A Bible college, sometimes referred to as a Bible institute or theological institute, is an evangelical Christian or Restoration Movement Christian institution of higher education which prepares students for Christian ministry with theological educ ...
located in
La Grange,
Wyoming
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,
United States
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. It is a state approved, non-profit educational institution.
The school was founded by Rev. Richard LeBar and Rev. Dan Johnson on September 5, 1967. It currently offers a residential college experience with a variety of Christian service opportunities. The current president is Nelson Miles and the vice president is Bill Bagley.
After gaining a minimum of 102 credits and three years of study, students are eligible for a non-accredited Associate of Arts degree. Associate degree recipients may apply for a non-accredited Bachelor of Arts degree upon completion of an additional year of full-time ministry, language school, or an internship.
Doctrinally, the school endorses a literal approach to
biblical hermeneutics resulting in
dispensationalism
Dispensationalism is a system that was formalized in its entirety by John Nelson Darby. Dispensationalism maintains that history is divided into multiple ages or "dispensations" in which God acts with humanity in different ways. Dispensationali ...
, including adherence to
pretribulationism
The rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise "in the c ...
and
premillennialism
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennialism#Christianity, Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. Premillennialism is base ...
.
[Frontier School of the Bible Catalog, 2017-2018, pp. 6-7: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7ddda5_d072d2fca80743cf8a1de8f281463e4f.pdf]
Notable alumni
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Ben Hornok, member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 60 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state, each with a population of ...
References
External links
Frontier School of the Bible's website
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Seminaries and theological colleges in Wyoming
Schools in Goshen County, Wyoming
Educational institutions established in 1967
Bible colleges in the United States