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San Francisco Theological Seminary

The San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS) is a seminary in San Anselmo, California with historic ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).[3] SFTS became embedded in a new Graduate School of Theology of the University of Redlands in 2019.[4] It was founded by the Synod of California in 1871.

Type

Private seminary

1871 (1871)

University of Redlands

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

University of Redlands; Graduate Theological Union; University of California, Berkeley

47 (FTE)[1]

San Anselmo and Berkeley, California
,
U.S.

37°58′11″N 122°33′56″W / 37.96972°N 122.56556°W / 37.96972; -122.56556[2]

Suburban, 14 acres (5.7 ha)

www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/gst/sfts/

SFTS is a founding member of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, a large consortium of graduate schools and seminaries in the Bay Area.[5] Through this membership, students have access to the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library and enjoy many opportunities to learn from and engage with religious traditions outside of the Reformed tradition. Through the Graduate Theological Union, students have access to the classes and the libraries of the University of California, Berkeley[6] and, most recently, University of Redlands.[7]

Campus[edit]

The SFTS campus is now known as the University of Redlands, Marin Campus, which is also home to the UR School of Business & Society.[18]

Berkeley: Through GTU schools and centers, SFTS students can relate to wider communities within Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism. SFTS students enjoy free and open cross-registration with all GTU member institutions.

Graduate Theological Union

: Through Graduate Theological Union agreements, SFTS students enjoy free cross-registration for UC Berkeley courses and the use of the university's research and performing arts centers, its nearly 100 library collections and approximately 80 museum collections.

University of California Berkeley

: As part of the University of Redlands, SFTS students have access to a wide range of programming, including joint degrees through the university's School of Business and School of Education.[19]

University of Redlands

John Norman Maclean, 1893 graduate and pastor of Presbyterian churches in Vacaville (1893-1897), Bozeman, MT (1897-1902), Clarinda, IA (1902-1909), and Missoula, MT (1909-1925). Maclean was father of renown author, , whose novella, A River Runs Through It, achieved both critical and commercial success. The autobiographical novel, later made into film in 1992, features prominently Maclean.

Norman Maclean

D.Min, San Francisco Theological Seminary; Founder the City of Refugee and Chair of the San Francisco Inter-religious Coalition on AIDS.

Yvette Flunder

The Rev. , M.Div, San Francisco Theological Seminary; Moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Bruce Reyes-Chow

Gray Professor of Old Testament Exegesis at San Francisco Theological Seminary (1961–1964); Endowed Chair in Hebrew Biblical Studies at the University of California, San Diego (1986–2008).

David Noel Freedman

Professor of Old Testament and Theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and President Emeritus of Pomona College

David Alexander

Gray Professor of Hebrew Exegesis and Old Testament (1963-1972).

James Muilenburg

Dean of the Faculty at San Francisco Theological Seminary; Professor Emeritus, Graduate Theological Union Berkeley; Chair of the Program in History and Philosophy at Harvard University

John Dillenberger

Adviser to the Archbishop of Hong Kong for theological and historical studies and Professor of Church History at Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College

Philip L. Wickeri

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