Chongshin University () is a Christian university in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

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. It has deep historical ties to conservative

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, reformed theology, and belongs to the

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. The current president is Park Seong-gyu.

Academics

Undergraduate education is provided through eight departments: Social Work, Child Studies, Church Music, Early Childhood Education, History Education, English Education, Christian Education, and Theology. Postgraduate education is divided between the seminary and the graduate schools. The main graduate school offers degrees of Master of Divinity (M.Div), Master of Theology (Th.M.), Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Music (M.M.), Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). In addition, there are separate graduate schools of Education, Mission, and Social Work.

History

The school was founded as a

seminary A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as cle ...

in 1901 by the Korean Presbyterian General Assembly. It was located in

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at the time, and known as Pyongyang Theological Seminary (평양 신학교). The first president was an American missionary by the name of

Samuel Austin Moffett Rev. Samuel Austin Moffett (1864–1939, ) was one of the early American Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. He studied at Hanover College, Indiana, and in 1888 at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In 1889, he was appointed a missiona ...

. The school was forced to close by the Japanese occupation government in 1938. It was reopened in 1948, now located in

. A four-year college was created in 1969. The seminary became an accredited graduate school in 1978. It became a university in 1995.

References

External links

Official school website, in Korean

Official school website, in English
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