Phoenix Seminary is an

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in Scottsdale,

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History

It was founded in 1988 as a branch campus of Western Seminary and became independent in 2004.

Academics

Phoenix Seminary is

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by the

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and the

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. The Arizona State Board of Private Postsecondary Education has licensed Phoenix Seminary to offer the Master of Arts in Counseling degree. The seminary offers several degrees, including:

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(M.Div.), Master of Arts (MA) in Biblical and Theological Studies, Master of Arts in Counseling, Master of Arts in Ministry,

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(Th.M.), and

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(D.Min.). The seminary partners with Ottawa University in a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling program. The seminary also offers a Graduate Diploma in Biblical Studies.

Campus

Classes were held at the former Scottsdale, Arizona, campus from 2000 through 2005. In 2005, Phoenix Seminary purchased and moved its campus to a new building in central Phoenix. In 2017, the seminary moved to a new campus in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Research

In 2019, Phoenix Seminary founded the Text & Canon Institute (TCI) to foster academic biblical research, resource the Church, and mentor ThM students. In 2021, the TCI became the host for the Hexapla Institute, which is a cooperative venture between

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, and the Hexapla Project and is committed to producing a new critical edition of the remains of Origen’s

Hexapla ''Hexapla'' (), also called ''Origenis Hexaplorum'', is a Textual criticism, critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four of them translated into Ancient Greek, Greek, preserved only in fragments. It was an immense and complex wor ...

. The first volume of the new series was published in 2020 by (now former) Phoenix Seminary professor John Meade as ''A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Job 22–42''.

Notable people

Alumni

* Tara Jackson, acting Prince George's County Executive (2024–present)

Faculty

Wayne Grudem Wayne A. Grudem (born 1948) is an American New Testament scholar, theologian, seminary professor, and author. He is a professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. Biography Early life and education Grud ...

References

External links

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Text & Canon Institute
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