Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem),officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church,is a private school of theology in Princeton,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Established in 1812,it is the second-oldest seminary in the United States,founded under the auspices of Archibald Alexander,the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA),and the College of New Jersey. It is also the largest of ten seminaries associated with the Presbyterian Church.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada is a Presbyterian denomination,serving in Canada under this name since 1875. The United Church of Canada claimed the right to the name from 1925 to 1939. According to the Canada 2021 Census 301,400 Canadians identify themselves as Presbyterian,that is,0.8 percent of the population.
Covenant Theological Seminary,informally called Covenant Seminary,is the denominational seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Located in Creve Coeur,Missouri,it trains people to work as leaders in church positions and elsewhere,especially as pastors,missionaries,and counselors. It does not require all students to be members of the PCA,but it is bound to promote the teachings of its denomination. Faculty must subscribe to the system of biblical doctrine outlined in the Westminster Standards.
The Free Church of Scotland is a conservative evangelical Calvinist denomination in Scotland. It is the continuation of the original Free Church of Scotland that remained outside the union with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900,and remains a distinct Presbyterian denomination in Scotland.
John Henry Gerstner was an American Reformed and Presbyterian theologian and professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He was an expert on the life and theology of Jonathan Edwards.
Jennings Ligon Duncan III is an American Presbyterian scholar and pastor. He is Chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary.
Mariano Di Gangi was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Victor Shepherd is a Canadian Presbyterian minister,theology professor and author living in Toronto,Ontario. He is a critic of the theology of the United Church of Canada and acted as an expert witness in a case against the church.
Donald N. Bastian is a retired Bishop of The Free Methodist Church USA. He served from 1974 to 1990 as one of five bishops,with primary oversight of Free Methodist churches in Canada. In 1990 he was elected the first bishop of the newly formed General Conference in Canada when three long-standing annual conferences were granted the right to form such a conference.
Richard B. Gaffin,Jr. is a Calvinist theologian,Presbyterian minister,and was the Charles Krahe Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2008. He became the Professor Emeritus,Biblical and Systematic Theology in 2008.
Allan Alexander MacRae was an evangelical Christian scholar who,with Harold S. Laird,Carl McIntire,Roland K. Armes,and several other conservative Presbyterians,helped found Faith Theological Seminary and,with Jack Murray,Biblical Theological Seminary. Because of his longevity,MacRae engaged in both the battles of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and with the rise of Neo-evangelicalism in mid-20th century America,playing important roles in the establishment of three conservative American seminaries.
Gary Vincent Nelson was a Canadian urban missiologist.
William Stanford Reid,usually cited as W. Stanford Reid,was a professor of history at McGill University and the University of Guelph and a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister. He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1941). He also had a divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary,studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.
Allan Macdonald Harman,is an Australian Presbyterian theologian and Old Testament scholar. He has been described as a "well-known and highly regarded figure in Christian and especially evangelical circles within Australia and overseas."
Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (1915–1990) was an Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar whose life spanned four continents:Australia,where he was born;South Africa,where he spent his formative years;England,where he was ordained;and the United States,where he died in 1990,aged 75.
George Arthur Buttrick was an English-born,American-based Christian preacher,author and lecturer.
Chad B. Van Dixhoorn,a Canadian-born theologian and historian,is the editor of the five-volume The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly:1643-1652 published by Oxford University Press in 2012. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his work on the Westminster assembly. In 2014 Banner of Truth Trust published Van Dixhoorn's second work,Confessing the Faith:a reader's guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith.
First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian congregation in Hattiesburg,Mississippi,founded in 1882 by Rev. A. B. Coit. It was the first church in the town and predated Hattiesburg's own incorporation by two years. In 1973 it left the Presbyterian Church in the United States to become a charter member of the more theologically conservative Presbyterian Church in America.
Robert Letham is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at the Union School of Theology. He is also Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.
