Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Type	Seminary
Established	1950
Affiliation	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Endowment	$9.5 million^[1]
Dean	Rev. Dr. Karen Bloomquist
Academic staff	11 full time, 10 part time, 25 adjunct
Postgraduates	182
Location	Berkeley, California
Campus	9 acres (36,000 m²)
Website	www.plts.edu

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) in Berkeley, California, is a seminary affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), California Lutheran University, and is a member school of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU).^[2]

History

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary was founded in 1950 and held its first classes in 1952 as a seminary of the United Lutheran Church in America, later the Lutheran Church in America and American Lutheran Church and currently the ELCA. As one of eight seminaries training ministers and educators for the ELCA, PLTS was preceded by a school called the Pacific Lutheran Seminary, which was located first in Portland, Oregon, and then in Seattle, Washington, from 1910 to 1934.

As of January 1, 2014, PLTS became the seminary of California Lutheran University, a Lutheran university located in Thousand Oaks, California.^[3]^[4]

Academic programs

At present, PLTS has 11 full-time, 10 part-time, 25 adjunct faculty members and offers Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Theology, Ministry, Education, and other forms of Christian service. The seminary serves all of the ELCA and has specific ties to Regions I, II, and III and the thirteen synods of the western U.S. PLTS was founded to meet the missional needs of the Lutheran Church in the western United States. PLTS was a founding member of the Graduate Theological Union.

PLTS partners with eleven ELCA synods and with the national units of the ELCA, and several foundations. Together they have worked to develop the Theological Education for Emerging Ministries program.

On April 24, 2009, the Board of Directors of PLTS voted unanimously to seek a Reconciling in Christ (RIC) designation from Lutherans Concerned/North America (LC/NA), the first seminary in the ELCA to do so. Shortly thereafter, LC/NA added a new "Seminaries" category to its list of RIC organizations and made PLTS the first member of that category.

Notable faculty

Timothy Lull
Ted Peters, Professor of Systematic Theology;

References

↑ As of June 30, 2011. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2010 to FY 2011" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers. January 17, 2012. p. 22. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
↑ http://www.plts.edu
↑ http://www.callutheran.edu
↑ http://www.plts.edu

External links

Seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Luther Seminary Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Trinity Lutheran Seminary Wartburg Theological Seminary

Graduate Theological Union

Member seminaries	American Baptist Seminary of the West Church Divinity School of the Pacific Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Pacific School of Religion San Francisco Theological Seminary Starr King School for the Ministry

Centers	Center for Jewish Studies Center for Islamic Studies Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Institute of Buddhist Studies New College Berkeley Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute School of Applied Theology

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