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About PRTS

A seminary committed to training the next generation of preachers, pastors, and theological leaders.

Our Mission and Beliefs View Degrees

We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as originally written, are God’s inerrant Word inspired by His Spirit and therefore are the only infallible authority for faith and practice.

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2965 Leonard St. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525

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Our Mission & Beliefs

Foundational to the character and mission of the seminary is its identity as a confessionally Reformed institution. Each faculty member, together with the ecclesiastical leaders of the seminary’s supporting and governing denominations (the Heritage Reformed Congregations and Free Reformed Churches of North America), subscribe the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith as expressed in the Ecumenical Creeds, and the teaching of the Reformed faith as expressed in the Three Forms of Unity (The Belgic Confession, 1561; the Heidelberg Catechism, 1563; and the Canons of Dort, 1618-1619) and the Westminster Standards of the 1640s. From these sources flow our Reformed perspective, our value system, our motivation for ministry, and our curricular emphases.

Our Confessional Commitments

Biblical

PRTS is convinced that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as originally written are God's inerrant Word inspired by His Spirit and therefore are the only, sufficient, and infallible authority for faith and practice.

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Historical

With the Spirit's blessing and help, PRTS is dedicated to serving Christ and His kingdom by teaching its graduates to articulate confessional Reformed theology on exegetical, biblical, and theological grounds.

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Confessional

PRTS embraces and upholds the Reformed faith as embodied in the Three Forms of Unity and Westminster Standards. As each faculty member subscribes these confessions, it is to be expected that all instruction accord with these confessional standards.

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Experiential

PRTS especially values the need for experiential preaching. By this we mean Christ-centered preaching which stresses that sinners must have a personal, experiential, Spirit-worked knowledge of Christ, and by extension, all the great truths of Scripture.

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" Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary strives to be a catalyst for defining, inspiring, promoting, and defending the Christian faith around the globe through its graduates and faculty. "

Dr. Joel R. Beeke, president

PRTS History

Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary began in 1995 with the acceptance of four seminary students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations (HRC). Classes officially commenced on August 9, 1995, under the leadership of our president, Dr. Joel R. Beeke. When we first opened, the vision of PRTS was to provide a high quality, four-year seminary program for men accepted by the HRC to train for pastoral ministry.

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Our Accreditations

PRTS is committed to providing a rigorous education, and therefore seeks accreditation from various institutions. As of February 2014, PRTS has been fully accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), the highest accrediting body for theological schools in North America.

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