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Hi all, 

I know that people often get on this site hoping to find info on program rankings in religious studies/theology/Bible/any number of other fields and subfields. To that end, I wanted to offer up this article that I stumbled across today, which may be of interest to some of the people that frequent this message board. I don't know anything at all about the website on which the ranking appears, but Yale Divinity linked to it on their official facebook page this morning and I thought it was interesting enough.

Disclaimer: This article is only speaking to mainline seminaries specifically (I believe they link to a similar list of evangelical seminaries near the top of the article, too), and the article itself acknowledges that the ranking of theological institutions is subjective according to its very nature, for obvious reasons. The article is not definitive; it might be said that it is only an orientation to the conversation about graduate theological education in America, etc etc etc.

Happy reading!

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As a mainliner attending an evangelical seminary, the evangelical seminary list they provide seems to lean more on popularity and influence more than academic rigor. For instance, why is Liberty in the top 10? They get flak even among evangelicals. 

 

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Helpful resource; while I'm glad the author thinks my alma mater is #1 (go Ligers!), its better to just ignore the rankings and just see it as "a list of good seminaries to consider."

On May 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Almaqah Thwn said:

As a mainliner attending an evangelical seminary, the evangelical seminary list they provide seems to lean more on popularity and influence more than academic rigor. For instance, why is Liberty in the top 10? They get flak even among evangelicals. 

 

Agreed. While I'm an outsider to be sure, I thought there were some strange places included and some notable omissions (I would have included Beeson and Baylor for one, maybe Calvin as well).

 

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On May 12, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Almaqah Thwn said:

For instance, why is Liberty in the top 10? They get flak even among evangelicals. 

 

Yes, indeed they do. As a self described one such evangelical, I cringe whenever people equate Liberty with evangelicalism's approach to academia. It represents one strand, but certainly not all. 

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