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The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP) is one of eight seminaries associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in North America. Located in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, it was founded in 1864, but traces its roots back to the first Lutheran establishment in Philadelphia founded by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg in 1748, with the first regional synod of the Pennsylvania Ministerium.〔() ELCA history timeline〕 The seminary has an enrollment of about 400 graduate students, with 19 full-time professors and 18 adjunct faculty. Students come from a number of Christian traditions in addition to the ELCA, including Anglican/Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, Church of God in Christ and Mennonite. The current president of the seminary is the Rev. Dr. David J. Lose. ==History== The background of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia dates back to the founding of the Pennsylvania Ministerium in 1748 by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the first organized Lutheran church body in North America.〔 LTSP. was founded in 1864, partly in response to the theology being taught at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, which had been established in 1826 about further west from the Delaware River in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Gettysburg seminary was thought to be too committed to American cultural accommodation rather than confessional Evangelical Lutheran orthodoxy. The Pennsylvania Ministerium had withdrawn that same year (1864) from the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America and in 1867 helped form the more conservative General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America.〔() ELCA Predecessor Bodies〕 The rivalry between the two Pennsylvania religious schools has continued to this day, although it is now principally manifested in an annual flag or touch football games and good-natured "trash talk" among alumni at church convocations and conventions. For its first two decades, the LTSP was at Franklin Square in Philadelphia's Center City. In 1889, it moved to Mount Airy in the then northwestern suburbs of the city.〔 The first seminary building on campus, now known as "Old Dorm", was built in 1889 and faced Germantown Avenue, which runs northwest out of downtown Philadelphia. That building is now incorporated into the modern facade of The Brossman Center. The Philadelphia Seminary's Graduate School was established about a quarter-century later in 1913. By 1938, the Lutheran Seminary became accredited by the American Association of Theological Schools. The Urban Theological Institute (UTI), celebrating its 35th year in 2015, was established in to provide accredited Saturday and evening programs for African American church leaders. The UTI now oversees the Black Church programs in the MDiv, MAR and DMin areas, and offers certificate programs for church leaders, and sponsors lectures on topics relating to the Black Church as well as the annual "Preaching with Power" series each March. Many national and regional church leaders, both Lutheran and non-Lutheran, have been graduates of or served as faculty members of LTSP, including H. George Anderson, former ELCA Presiding Bishop, and Frank Griswold, former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Lutheran church theologian Theodore Emanuel Schmauk was president of the LSTP Board of Directors from 1908 until 1920 and in charge of the Department of Ethics, Apologetics and Pedagogy from 1911 until 1920. Additionally the presidents of four American Lutheran theological seminaries have been faculty members at LTSP.〔() LTSP website〕 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「Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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