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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1897; 128 years ago (1897) |
Parent institution | Trinity International University |
| Affiliation | Evangelical Free Church of America |
| President | David W. Pao (interim) |
| Students | 818 |
| Address | 2065 Half Day Road ,,,United States |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | tiu |
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Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is thedivinity school ofTrinity International University, anevangelicalChristian university headquartered inBannockburn, Illinois. The divinity school was founded in 1897.[1]
In April 2025, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School announced that it would merge withTrinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada, and would cease operations at the Chicagoland campus.[2][3]
TEDS is one of the largest seminaries in the world, enrolling more than 1,200 graduate students in professional and academic programs, including more than 150 in its Ph.D. programs.[4] The most popular degree at the school, theMaster of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, prepares pastors, educators, and missionaries for many kinds of service. The school also offers a range of focusedMaster of Arts programs in mental health counseling, theological studies, the New Testament, the Old Testament, and other disciplines. Trinity offers a comprehensive listing of academic programs with Master of Arts (MA), Master of Divinity (M.Div), Master of Theology (Th.M), Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degrees.[5]
TEDS is affiliated with theEvangelical Free Church of America and isaccredited by theAssociation of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. It publishes theTrinity Journal.[6]
Trinity honors and continues the legacy of its major contributors through a combination of centers, lectures, and honoraria. The Carl F. H. Henry Center is a nod to longtime TEDS faculty member and theologianCarl F. H. Henry, which also continues his vision of theological development.[7] The Paul Hiebert Center for World Christianity and Global Theology is named after the Trinity Evangelical Missions department faculty memberPaul Hiebert. He made numerous contributions to the field of mission research and practical application on the field.[8] The Hiebert Center at TEDS is designed to foster collaboration between missionary personnel, academics, and laypeople from across the world to engage in research and field work. The Kenneth Kantzer Lectures are named after the namesake visionary who shaped Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.[9]
In April 2025, TEDS[10] andTrinity Western University (TWU)[11] announced that TWU is assuming ownership of TEDS in a process that will complete in 2026.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School was incorporated in 1963 as the result of a merge between Trinity Seminary and Bible College and its relocation to Deerfield Illinois.[12]Kenneth Kantzer was elected Dean and had the vision to create a “divinity school” which would be a university environment of biblical studies where world class scholars would produce world class students.[13] Trinity became an academic heavyweight in the late 1960s by hiring top academic faculty in their respective fields.[14] Trinity’s mission, statement of faith and curriculum were greatly influenced by Kenneth Kantzer and Carl F. H. Henry. Both men are ranked as being among the most important evangelicals of the 20th century.[15] Some of the most notable evangelical scholars came to Trinity due to Dean Kantzer's recruiting efforts. These faculty included Robert Culver (Systematic Theology), John Warwick Montgomery (Church history), Walter Kaiser (Old Testament), Richard Troup (Christian Education), Gleason Archer Jr (Old Testament) and David Hasselgrave (Missions), among several others.[16] Some of the academic faculty who were a part ofFuller Theological Seminary had left the seminary due to its change of stance on biblical inerrancy. The faculty who departed believed in full biblical inerrancy that the Bible doesn’t contain any error whether it is matters of faith or history or science.[17] Trinity became a rival to Fuller Seminary for the leadership of evangelicalism.[18] Trinity continues to produce first rate scholarship in the 21st century with professors such asKevin Vanhoozer,D. A. Carson,Paul Feinberg,John Feinberg,Paul Hiebert andJohn D. Woodbridge holding faculty positions within the school.[19][20] Trinity continues the legacy of bothKenneth Kantzer andCarl F. H. Henry through the school's operation but also the Carl Henry Center on campus and the Kenneth Kantzer Lectures.[21][22] In 2022, TEDS celebrated 125 years of the school in operation. The bookGreat is thy Faithfulness was published by some of the faculty detailing the years at Trinity.[23]
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