Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Type	Private
Established	1897; 124 years ago (1897)
Affiliation	Evangelical Free Church of America
President	Nicholas Perrin
Students	1,231
Address	2065 Half Day Road , Deerfield , Illinois , United States
Campus	Suburban
Website	teds.edu

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is an academic divinity school founded in 1897 and located in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. It is part of and located on the main campus of Trinity International University. TEDS is one of the largest seminaries in the world, enrolling more than 1,200 graduate students in professional and academic programs, including more than 150 in its Ph.D. programs. The most popular degree at the school, the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, prepares pastors, educators, and missionaries for many kinds of service. The school also offers a range of more focused Master of Arts programs in mental health counseling, theological studies, New Testament, Old Testament, and other disciplines.

TEDS is affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America and is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. It publishes the Trinity Journal.

Notable faculty[]

• Gleason Archer - Former Professor of Old Testament and Semitics (1965-1986)
• Barry J. Beitzel - Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Languages (1976-2016)
• D. A. Carson - New Testament Scholar and Emeritus Professor of New Testament
• John S. Feinberg - Chair of the Department and Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology
• Paul D. Feinberg - Late Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
• Norman Geisler - Former Chair, Department of Philosophy of Religion (1970-1979)
• Murray J. Harris - Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis and Theology
• James K. Hoffmeier - Egyptologist and professor of Old Testament and ancient near eastern history
• S. Lewis Johnson Jr. - Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology (1980-1985)
• John Warwick Montgomery - Professor of Church History (1964-1974)
• Harold A. Netland - Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Studies and the Naomi A. Fausch Chair of Missions
• Grant R. Osborne - Late Professor of New Testament and author of The Hermeneutical Spiral
• Clark H. Pinnock - Late Professor of Systematic Theology
• Kevin J. Vanhoozer - Research Professor of Systematic Theology
• Keith E. Yandell - Affiliate Professor of Philosophy
• Wayne Grudem - Former Chair of Biblical and Systematic Theology department
• Willem A. VanGemeren - Former Professor of Old Testament
• John D. Woodbridge - Research Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought

Notable alumni[]

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• John F. Ankerberg, host of the "John Ankerberg Show"
• Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C.
• Craig Blomberg, New Testament scholar at Denver Seminary
• Elie Buconyori, founder and President of Hope Africa University and Bishop of the free Methodist church in Burundi and Kenya.
• William Lane Craig, apologist and professor of philosophy at Biola University's Talbot School of Theology
• W. Kent Fuchs, provost of Cornell University and president of the University of Florida
• Walter C. Kaiser, retired president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• Dan McConchie, member of the Illinois Senate
• Scot McKnight, noted blogger, author, and New Testament scholar at Northern Seminary
• Douglas J. Moo, New Testament scholar and theologian
• James Moore, historian of science at the British Open University and the University of Cambridge, and visiting scholar at Harvard University
• Mark Noll, noted Christian historian, professor of history at The University of Notre Dame
• Smokie Norful, Grammy winning gospel singer and pianist
• Michael Young-Suk Oh, Executive Director/CEO of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
• Stanley E. Porter, President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College
• Cecil R. Richardson, former Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force
• John D. Robb, chairman of the International Prayer Council
• John Senyonyi, vice chancellor, Uganda Christian University
• Jeffrey Neil Steenson, bishop in The Episcopal Church, became Roman Catholic
• Jim Wallis, author, activist, founder and editor of Sojourners Magazine
• David Falconer Wells, Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• Danny Yamashiro, chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researcher on American presidents and childhood trauma, and media talk show host

External links[]

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• Official website

Coordinates: 42°11′52.5″N 87°52′51.8″W / 42.197917°N 87.881056°W / 42.197917; -87.881056