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Baptist Theological Seminary〔Ministry of Home Affairs () List of organizations〕 is a Baptist seminary located in Jagannaickpur, Church Square, Kakinada in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The seminary was affiliated to nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) in 1949.〔''Indian Church History Review'', Volume 13, Church History Association of India, 1979, p.77.()〕 In the successive years', the Seminary embarked on an ecumenical initiative along with the Lutherans, the Anglicans and the Methodists and formed the Andhra Christian Theological College in Rajahmundry in 1964. However, the Seminary continued to function as a Propaedeutic Seminary in Kakinada without University affiliation. The Seminary Council administers the Seminary as well as other institutions, the Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School for Women, Tuni, the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad, and the Shanthi Parishodana Patashala, Rajahmundry. ==Founding== Thomas Gabriel (missionary) founded the Canadian Baptist Mission in 1874 along with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec. A Seminary in Samalkot in 1882〔 under the stewardship of the John McLaurin, a companion of Thomas Gabriel (missionary). In 1912,〔 the Seminary was shifted from Samalkot to Kakinada. However, in 1920, the Seminary closed and was merged with the Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary and a joint faculty comprising the American Baptists and the Canadian Baptists began taking classes. In 1928, the Seminary was reopened in Kakinada and the faculty were recalled from Ramayapatnam. In 1959 the Seminary moved to Rajahmundry in the campus of the Lutheran Theological Seminary〔Robert George Torbet, ''Venture of Faith: The Story of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1814–1954'', Judson Press, 1955. ()〕 and functioned as a separate entity along with the American Baptists. With the formation of the ecumenical seminary – Andhra Christian Theological College in 1964, the B.Th. and B.D. classes were moved to it while the Seminary retained the stand-alone diploma courses. In the beginning, the seminary was affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University).〔Please refer to Andhra Christian Theological College – The Kretzmann's Commission〕 However, with the formation of the Andhra Christian Theological College (ACTC) in 1964, the seminary began sending its students for Bachelor of Theology and Bachelor of Divinity to ACTC. After the formation of ACTC, an ecumenical seminary in Rajahmundry in 1964, the BTS got itself amalgamated into it for Senate approved courses. However, the BTS began offering self managed and operated Graduate of Theology courses under the seal of the Seminary Council since then. The BTS was upgraded from S. Th to B. Th from August 2015 onwards 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baptist Theological Seminary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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