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| Motto | Preparing students to serve Christ and His church through Biblical, experiential, and practical ministry. |
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| Type | Seminary |
| Established | 1995[1] |
| Affiliation | Heritage Reformed Congregations and theFree Reformed Churches of North America[2] |
| Chancellor | Joel R. Beeke |
| President | Adriaan C. Neele |
| Vice-president | Gerald M. Bilkes |
| Location | Grand Rapids ,Michigan , |
| Website | https://prts.edu/ |
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Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary is aReformedseminary inGrand Rapids, Michigan.[3][4]Joel R. Beeke was the president of Puritan Reformed from 1995 to 2023 and currently serves as the chancellor, while Adriaan C. Neele serves as the president and Gerald M. Bilkes as the vice president. Founded by theHeritage Reformed Congregations in 1995, Puritan Reformed is a graduate school that offers bothmasters' anddoctoral degrees. All of its faculty subscribe to theThree Forms of Unity and theWestminster Standards. Since 1998, theFree Reformed Churches of North America (FRCNA) has sent its theological students to Puritan Reformed.[5]
Apart from the main campus in Grand Rapids, Puritan Reformed has five global extension campuses for the ThM degree in Africa (Pretoria,South Africa), Asia (Taipei,Taiwan), Europe (London,United Kingdom), the Middle East (Cairo,Egypt) and South America (São José dos Campos,Brazil).[6]
The state of Michigan has granted Puritan Reformed a degree-grantingcharter and has approved their degree offerings. Puritan Reformed offers six accredited degrees: theMaster of Divinity (MDiv),Master of Arts (MA), Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling (MABC),Master of Theology (ThM),Doctor of Ministry (DMin), andDoctor of Philosophy (PhD).[7]
In February 2014, Puritan Reformed becameaccredited by theAssociation of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.[8]
The Master of Theology (ThM) degree program is also approved at the following five extension sites: Alexandria Governorate-Cairo Governorate,Egypt,London inUnited Kingdom,São José dos Campos,Brazil,Taipei City,Taiwan,and Pretoria,South Africa.
ThePuritan Research Center began in conjunction with theTheological University of Apeldoorn inNetherlands to establish an associated combined doctoral program and to encourage research inPuritan studies.[9]
TheJonathan Edwards Center is part of international network centers dedicated to research, education, and publication onJonathan Edwards and his context. The first Jonathan Edwards Center began atYale University, and subsequently many such centers were planted in six continents. It was announced during the International Jonathan Edwards Conference at Yale University, on October 4, 2019, that Edwards Center-Midwest would be moving to Puritan Reformed.
TheCenter for Classical Reformed Systematic Theology was established in cooperation with theVrije Universiteit Amsterdam for postdoctoral research in Reformed systematic theology.[10]
TheGeerhardus Vos Center was established at Puritan Reformed for the advancement and dissemination of research that advances the interrelationship and cross-fertilization of exegetical, biblical, and systematic theology in the context of Reformed epistemology.
