Protestant Theological Seminaries and Their Libraries

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Author	Beach, Robert F.
Copyright Year	1960
Abstract	THIS ARTICLE IS CONCERNED primarily with the Protestant graduate theological school, i.e., the institution requiring the A.B. degree, or its equivalent, as a requisite for admission to degree candidacy. Schools of this type are found both within and outside the membership of the American Association of Theological Schools, the accrediting agency for the field. In 1959, eighty-three such schools in the United States and Canada were "accredited members" of the A.A.T.S. An additional forty-four were "associate members," meeting the requirement of "operating predominantly on a post-college level." Beyond these two groups are an estimated fifty'to sixty theological schools which are not affiliated with the A.A.T.S. but which offer, or are reputed to offer, academic work all or in part at the graduate level.' The total group of graduate theological schools of the United States and Canada, approximately 180 in all, 151in the United States and 29 in Canada, will be considered here. This article does not treat Catholic and Jewish theological seminaries, with many of which our Protestant schools maintain cooperative relationships, including reciprocal use of libraries. Ample attention is given to these two groups of institutions, respectively, in succeeding articles. Not included, either, are the approximately two hundred Bible institutes and Bible colleges in the United States and Canada. Emphasizing an undergraduate specialization in Bible and theology, these schools have their own Accrediting Association of Bible Institutes and Bible Colleges. In 1959 it had a membership of thirty-one "accredited schools" and eleven "associate schools." While the present survey is necessarily limited to the graduate theological schools, it is appropriate to note that this large group of undergraduate institutions,
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