Knox Theological Seminary is an Independent Evangelical Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, founded in 1989 by D. James Kennedy. Knox graduated its first class of Master of Divinity students in 1993.
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The founding faculty were Joseph Hall (Professor of Church History), George W. Knight III (Dean and Professor of New Testament), Robert L. Reymond (Professor of Systematic Theology), R. Laird Harris (adjunct Professor of Old Testament), and David Winecoff and Bruce Fiol (homiletics). The first president was Dr.Doug Culver (now deceased) with D. James Kennedy as chancellor until his death in September 2007. Kennedy died on September 5, 2007, and in August, 2008, the Knox Seminary board installed P. David Nicholas as the president of the seminary. Dr. Nicholas is a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary. Nicholas resigned in April 2009 to launch Lordship Ministries.
Knox is governed by a board of directors.
Named after the Scottish Reformer John Knox, Knox Theological Seminary was founded in 1989 by D. James Kennedy (1930–2007), the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Kennedy wanted to build an institution that would teach and equip men and women who would become conduits to bring Christian renewal and blessings to the nations. They would be pastors, teachers, evangelists, and lay workers who would fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and the Cultural Mandate (Genesis 1:28).
In 1988, Kennedy assembled a working committee to formulate the principles that they believed were essential for the institution that came to be known as Knox Theological Seminary, including:
Kennedy often spoke of his desire that Knox would become "the Princeton of the South," referring to the first hundred years of Princeton Seminary, when it employed the Princeton theologians.
In September 1990, Knox opened its doors as a graduate school of theology, and in January 2005, the seminary received full accreditation by the Association of Theological Schools.
Knox first received accreditation in 2005 through Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.[1] ATS accreditation is recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation for the accreditation of graduate professional theological education.[1]
Knox offers the Master of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry, Master of Arts in Christianity and Culture, Master of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies, and the Master of Arts in Evangelism degrees.[2]
In June 2009, the seminary hired Dr. Michael Allen, a recent graduate of Wheaton College, as Associate Professor of Systematic Theology. In July 2009 Dr. Luder Whitlock became the chairman of the Knox Board of Directors. Dr. Whitlock served for 23 years as president of Reformed Theological Seminary. Christianity Today identified Luder Whitlock as one of five seminary presidents most influential on theological education during the last half of the 20th Century.
Former faculty include E. Calvin Beisner, Joseph Hall, D. James Kennedy, George W. Knight III, Robert L. Reymond, O. Palmer Robertson, R. C. Sproul, and R. Fowler White. Adjunct faculty have included Robert Evans, George Grant, John Guest, Laird Harris, David W. Hall, Michael A. G. Haykin, Michael A. Milton, Richard Pratt, Jared Reed and Collins Weeber.