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In 1891, the school was founded by the Evangelical Covenant Church in Minneapolis. [1] In 1894, the school moved to Chicago. [2] A view of the heart of North Park's campus. The seminary shares a campus with North Park University, the denomination's liberal arts college.
The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago was established on September 4, 1962, as the merger of four existing seminaries: the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church's Augustana Theological Seminary at Rock Island, Illinois, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church's Grand View Seminary at Des Moines, Iowa, the United Lutheran Church in America's (ULCA) Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at ...
Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian [2] [3] Bible college in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Historically, MBI has maintained positions that have identified it as non-charismatic, dispensational, and generally Calvinistic. [4]
It was the first theological school to introduce the field education experience into a seminary curriculum, [4] the first to create a distinct Department of Christian Sociology in an American theological school, [5] and the first seminary to award a degree in divinity to a woman in the United States (Florence Fensham, 1902). [6]
Norman Wait Harris, a Chicago bank executive, was president of the school's board of trustees and donated land and buildings to the school. [1] In 1930, the school was merged into the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois, which later became the Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is an academic divinity school founded in 1897 [1] and located in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. It is part of and located on the main campus of Trinity International University. It is among the largest theological educational institutions. [2]
Wheaton Academy (WA) is a private, Christian, co-educational high school in West Chicago, Illinois, which was established as part of the Illinois Institute by a group of evangelical abolitionists in 1853. The Illinois Institute was reorganized into Wheaton College and Wheaton College Academy, a preparatory school, in 1860. Wheaton Academy ...
St. Matthew Evangelical Lutheran School is a historic Lutheran school building located at 2101-2107 W. 21st Street in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1882, it is one of the only surviving Italianate school buildings in Chicago. While the Italianate style was popular in Chicago in the second half of the 19th century, it was mainly used in homes and ...