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Tyndale University College and Seminary is an accredited Christian institution of higher education in the Protestant Evangelical tradition located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Tyndale students come from over 40 different Christian denominations and more than 30 different ethnic groups.〔Cf. (About Tyndale ), (official webpage).〕 Tyndale offers undergraduate and graduate programs. A student residence is located on its campus.〔Province of Ontario, (Designated Post-Secondary Residences ).〕 ==History== The Toronto Bible Training School was founded in 1894 by a group of brethren under the supervision of Elmore Harris pastor of Walmer Road Baptist Church. Elmore Harris became the first President. William Boyd Stewart (former pastor of Bond Street Baptist Church) was the first Principal. Courses were held at the Walmer Road Church for the first four years until they relocated to new facilities the Gothic Revival building at 110 College Street (demolished after 1928 and now site of the University of Toronto's Banting and Best Department of Medical Research Building since 1930) in 1898 financed chiefly through generous contributions of the Harris family. (This land had been leased from the University of Toronto). The name of the school was changed to Toronto Bible College in 1912 and in September 1928 relocated to 16 Spadina Road (just north of Bloor Street and now Native Canadian Centre) when the lease expired.〔https://archive.org/stream/recorderdec1928351toro#page/4/mode/2up Recorder December 1928.〕 It became the first permanent Canadian Bible school and only the third in North America.〔Cf. R. G. Sawatsky, (Bible Schools ), ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (1988), p. 212; also W. Unger and G. Niebuhr, (Bible Colleges and Institutes ), ''Global Anabaptist-Mennonite Encyclopedia Online'', 1990.〕 The founders' vision of TBC was to train laypeople as "Sunday School teachers, Pastors' Assistants, and as City, Home and Foreign Missionaries."〔John Stackhouse, Jr., (Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character ) (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 1998), 55. Early key supporters included Toronto Mayor William Holmes Howland and Elmore Harris, first President of TBC and heir to the Massey-Harris Company. See also Alvyn Austin, "('Hotbed of Missions': The China Inland Mission, Toronto Bible College, and the Faith Missions-Bible School Connections )," in ''The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History'', eds. D. H Bays and G. Wacker (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2010), pp. 134-151.〕 The institution's leadership was largely Baptist and Presbyterian, but also included Methodists and Anglicans.〔Cf. Stackhouse, (Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century ), 55.〕 The TBC graduation service was always a significant Toronto event, held initially at Massey Hall, and then moved to the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium to accommodate crowds as large as 6,000.〔Cf. Stackhouse, (Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century ), 58, with reference to graduation in 1937.〕 In the 1940s, the school's president, John McNicol, steered a path between modernism and ultra-fundamentalism (specifically dispensationalism)--both of which McNicol denounced as threats to the health of the church.〔Stackhouse, (Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century ), 61-64.〕 This unique position gained TBC the support of evangelicals in a variety of mainline denominations.〔George A. Rawlyk and Mark A. Noll, (Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States ) (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994), 337.〕 In 1968, Toronto Bible College merged with the London College of Bible and Missions from London, Ontario. LCBM began in 1935 as ''London Bible Institute'', led by Dr. J. Wilmot Mahood. The newly merged institution was named Ontario Bible College (OBC). This merger brought more students to the Toronto-based institution from other evangelical denominations including the Associated Gospel Churches, the Brethren, and the Mennonite Brethren.〔Cf. Stackhouse, ( Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century ), ch. 7; cf. also Timothy Larsen and Jon Vickery, ''For Christ in Canada: a history of Tyndale Seminary, 1976-2001'' (Toronto: Tyndale University College and Seminary, 2004).〕 In 1976 OBC relocated to a former Jesuit seminary (Regis College) in Willowdale, Toronto (formerly City of North York), designed by modernist architect Peter Dickinson. In the same year, the institution also established a graduate school named Ontario Theological Seminary (OTS). OBC/OTS was given degree-granting powers by the Government of Ontario in 1986,〔Province of Ontario, ( An Act respecting the Ontario Bible College and Ontario Theological Seminary, 1986 and 1982 )'', Bill PR18, 1986.〕 and received full accreditation by the Association of Theological Schools in 1989.〔George Rawlyk, (The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1760-1990 ) (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1993), 231.〕 By 1995, the institution had become insolvent and filed to make a proposal to creditors under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act in Canada. A new president, Brian Stiller,〔Jim Cantelon, ("From Bankruptcy to Higher Education: Interview with Brian Stiller ), June 2009.〕 and CFO, Winston Ling,〔John T. Zietlow, ( "Green Eyeshades Give Way to the Ministry's Executive Suite: The CFO Role as turnaround strategist," ) ''Christian Leadership Alliance,'' 2007.〕 were brought on and a new board was chosen. In 1998 the school was renamed ''Tyndale College and Seminary'' after William Tyndale, a Reformation theologian of the sixteenth century. The leadership intended the name change to indicate their vision to build "a world-class centre of Christian higher education in Canada."〔Cf. Government of Ontario, ( Tyndale College & Seminary Act, 2003 ).〕 In 2003, the Ontario Legislature authorized Tyndale to change its name to ''Tyndale University College & Seminary''. Tyndale was also given the right to confer the Bachelor of Arts degree in the humanities, social sciences and business, as well as undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level degrees in religion, theology, and divinity.〔Province of Ontario, (Tyndale College & Seminary Act, 2003 ); also Province of Ontario, (Tyndale University College & Seminary Act, 2005 ); and (Tyndale University College & Seminary Act, 2005 ).〕 On December 5, 2007, Tyndale was given ministerial consent by the Province of Ontario to offer a 12-month Bachelor of Education program to prepare teachers for primary, junior, and intermediate grades.〔Province of Ontario, (PostSecondary Education Quality Assessment Board - Current Consents ).〕 In June 2006, Tyndale entered into an agreement to acquire a neighboring facility, St. Joseph's Morrow Park, 3377 Bayview Avenue, from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto.〔Patricia Paddy, (Tyndale expands its territory: Catholic convent purchased for $40 million ), ''Christian Week'', July 21, 2006.〕 A key reason for Vatican approval of the pending transfer of the campus from Catholic to Protestant hands was Tyndale's commitment to maintain the aesthetically significant chapel as "sacred space".〔Lloyd Mackey, ( Ottawa Watch ), ''Canadian Christianity'', October 26, 2006.〕 The facility transfer was completed on March 31, 2013, and all departments and offices were moved to 3377 Bayview Avenue in the Spring of 2015.〔; "(Road to Bayview Blog ).〕 The Catholic girls' high school will continue to operate in a wing of the property until at least June 2018.〔Toronto Catholic School Board (Replacement of St. Joseph Morrow Park ), April 1, 2015.〕 Tyndale Seminary is the largest accredited seminary in Canada with more than 700 students at the masters or doctoral level,〔(Member Schools Offering Approved Degrees ), Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.〕 and the University College received high rankings in the 2009 ''Maclean's'' University issue's measure of student satisfaction (see below).〔(2009 Student Surveys: Small schools excel, Canada lags behind the U.S. and the undergrad revolution ), ''Maclean's'', Feb. 4, 2009.〕 In 2011, student satisfaction was amongst the highest of all Canadian universities.〔(2011 Student Surveys: Complete Results ), ''Maclean's'', February 28, 2011; (2011 Web-exclusive charts ), ''Maclean's'', February 24, 2011.〕 While students ranked the quality of teaching and classroom discussion above average,〔(), ''Maclean's'', February 24, 2011.〕 the ''Maclean's'' study also found the institution below average in some educational practices, including active and collaborative learning.〔(2011 Student Surveys: NSSE benchmarks ), ''Maclean's'', March 14, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tyndale University College and Seminary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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