Martin Bucer Seminary
| Motto | For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. (Eph 4:12) |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1996 |
| President | Thomas Schirrmacher |
| Students | 378 (2016) |
| Location | In Germany: Bonn, Berlin, Bielefeld, Munich, Pforzheim, Chemnitz, and Hamburg, in Austria: Innsbruck and Linz, in Brazil: São Paulo, in Switzerland: Zürich, in the Czech Republic: Prague, and in Turkey: Istanbul |
| Website | www.bucer.org |
The Martin Bucer Seminary is a European multinational evangelical theological seminary and research institute in the Protestant reformed tradition. The seminary is named after the reformer Martin Bucer.
The Martin Bucer Seminary was founded in 1996 in response to the dominance of higher criticism and liberal theology within German seminaries. It offers students theological training in a network of campuses across German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in partnership with the German Evangelical Alliance) as well as in the Czech Republic, Turkey and Brazil.
The educational extra of the seminary are the many study centres with up to 20 students, who beside their academic training are interns in local churches. A unique feature in the world of theological education is to combine a curriculum and feature from several very different cultural settings for Christianity. The branches in growth oriented Christianity Brazil, minority oriented Christianity Turkey, a secularized Christianity in German speaking Western Europe and Czech Republic are combined into a global curriculum. Students can move around and get their credits at any of the study centers. They are taught by Christian professors and leaders from other continents with a totally different perspectives, which especially challenges Western theology.
With 378 students in 2016 (151 of them in Brazil) it is the largest Evangelical Seminary in Europe outside of the UK. In addition there are further 200 students studying online. The offered courses enable to receive a Bachelor of Theology and a Master of Theology, that are bestowed by the Whitefield Theological Seminary. President is Prof. Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher.
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