Covenant Theological Seminary, Records
Record Group # 13
Box# es 4 through 6, 11, 12, 14 and 62
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Size: 4 cu. ft.
Access Restrictions: None
Collection Citation: Covenant Theological Seminary, Records, Box __, Folder __: item description, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO.
Organizational History: Covenant Theological Seminary was established
in 1956 by vote of the General Synod of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
In 1955 the Synod had founded Covenant College, which was relocated in
the following year to share with the Seminary a twenty-one acre campus
in St. Louis County. By 1964, the two schools having outgrown this campus
in Creve Coeur, the College was moved to Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga,
Tennessee. The Seminary remained on the Creve Coeur campus and by 1965
was operated under a separate board of trustees.
In 1965 a union was effected between the Evangelical Presbyterian Church
and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America (General Synod),
to form the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. Covenant
Seminary continued to serve as the denominational theological school of
this church and so sought to represent both the 20th-century movement
for a Presbyterian church that adhered faithfully to its historic confessions
and the 17th-century commitment to Christ's kingship of the Scottish Covenanters.
While the Seminary's main purpose is to prepare students for a variety
of ordained ministries, primarily for its own denomination, nonetheless
its student body has always included a large proportion of students from
outside the sponsoring denomination.
The founding president of both Covenant College and Covenant Theological Seminary was Dr. Robert G. Rayburn [1915-1990], who, after resigning his position as President in 1976, continued on the faculty as Professor of Practical Theology. Dean of the graduate school of theology when the Seminary was established with Covenant College was Dr. J. Oliver Buswell, Jr. [1895-1977], whose theological teaching has left a lasting influence on the Seminary's instruction.
Finding Aid is normally located in folder number 1 of each box.
Collection Focus: Click
here to see the 1960 Bagpipe articles on the donation and subsequent
move of what is now the Administration Building at Covenant Theological
Seminary.
Abstract:
Box 4 - Official publications, faculty correspondence,
Self-Study Papers, death notices for Dr. Robert G. Rayburn and materials
on the death of Elizabeth Mackintosh.
Box 6 - Financial Reports; Faculty
Minutes; Faculty correspondence and syllabii; Death notice for Dr. J.
Barton Payne; Seminary publications and promotional materials.
Box 11 - Catalogs, Student Handbooks and Directories
Box 14 - Urban Ministries Institute; Self-Study Report; Proposed Campus Buildings
Box 62 - Photographs of faculty, staff and campus buildings