Pikes Peak Bible Seminary was an unaccredited correspondence school in

Manitou Springs, Colorado Manitou Springs is a home rule municipality located at the foot of Pikes Peak in western El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded for its natural mineral springs. The downtown area continues to be of interest to travelers, ...

. It was founded by C. J. Burton in 1927, and was also known as Burton College and Seminary. The seminary was used in the 1930s and 1940s by pastors seeking doctorates while serving in a church:

William Hendriksen William Hendriksen (18 November 1900 – 12 January 1982) was a New Testament scholar and writer of Bible commentaries. He was born in Tiel, Gelderland, but his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1911. Hendriksen studied at Calvin Colle ...

obtained a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from Pikes Peak (before getting a

Doctor of Theology Doctor of Theology ( la, Doctor Theologiae, abbreviated DTh, ThD, DTheol, or Dr. theol.) is a terminal degree in the academic discipline of theology. The ThD, like the ecclesiastical Doctor of Sacred Theology, is an advanced research degree equiva ...

from Princeton Theological Seminary) while

Victor Paul Wierwille Victor Paul Wierwille (December 31, 1916 – May 20, 1985) was the founder of The Way International (TWI). Biography Victor Paul Wierwille was born on December 31, 1916, in New Knoxville, Ohio, to Ernst Henry Wierwille and Emma Sophia Niemeyer ...

received a Doctor of Theology degree. The seminary was regarded as a diploma mill by the United States Office of Education.

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