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Chongshin
University and Seminary is the only one educational
institution run by the Korean Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong)
which has now 11,000 local congregations and 3 million members.
It has been founded in 1901 to follow the decision the General
Assembly of the Korean Presbyterian in Korea with the purpose
of bringing up Korean pastors. |
It had begun with
the name, Pyongyang Chosen Jesus Presbyterian Seminary (known
as Pyongyang Seminary) and with two year preparatory courses
and three year seminary course. Dr. Samuel A. Moffett, a missionary
from then Presbyterian Church in the United States of America,
served as its first president. It was closed by force by the
contemporary Japanese authority because it refused to bow before
Japanese Shinto shrine in 1938. After liberation from the Japanese
rule, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea
decided to reopen the seminary in Seoul under the name of the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1948. However, the name
has experienced many changes due to the socio-ecclesiastical-political
situation in Korea since then until it has the current name,
Chongshin University and Seminary. It expanded the two year
preparatory course to the full four year liberal art course
in 1967. The contemporary Ministry of Education authorized accreditation
to confer BA degree in 1970, and MA and Th.M. in 1978, M.Div.,
in 1980, Ph.D. in 1987, and Th.D. in 2000.
It has now eight undergraduate departments (2,020 full-time
students): Theology, Christian Education, English Education,
History Education, Early Children Education, Christian Music,
Children Care, and Social Welfare; six graduate schools (1,020
full-time students): General Graduate School, Education Graduate
School, Inter-cultural Graduate School, Counseling Graduate
School, Social Welfare Graduate School, and Pastoral Ministry
Graduate School; one theological seminary (1,800 full-time students);
and one none-degree continuing adult school.
It had attained the highest ranking among the theological universities
in the national assessment of the academic qualification by
the Council of University Education in 1998.
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