The General Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the next recipients of its Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa, to be conferred at the 195th Commencement ceremonies on Wednesday May 17, 2017. “Honorary doctorates of divinity (DD) include individuals who are called into the special ministry of leadership within the episcopacy, priestly service, and laity alike,” said The Very Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle, Dean and President. Read more...
NEW YORK CITY: On Tuesday April 11 at 4:30pm, The General Theological Seminary will host a celebration to honor the launch of Michael Battle’s newest monograph, Heaven on Earth: God’s Call to Community in the Book of Revelation. Battle will offer remarks and be available for conversation and book signing.
Desmond Tutu comments on Battle’s Heaven and Earth: “Michael invites the reader into the birthing process of heaven on earth. Read more...
Leading up to the Fall semester, the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Adjunct Professor, has taken on expanded roles at The General Theological Seminary. Her new position includes key responsibilities in implementing the Seminary’s new initiative, The Way of Wisdom.
Spellers will continue in her appointment as Adjunct Professor of Church and Society and takes on the additional role of Director of Mission and Reconciliation. Read more...
The Society for the Increase of the Ministry (“SIM”) and the Mercer Fund of the Diocese of Long Island (“Mercer”) have awarded the first SIM/Mercer Challenge Scholarship to Jason Daniel Roberson, an entering junior at The General Theological Seminary, and his sponsoring bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles vonRosenberg of South Carolina.
Roberson is the first recipient of this new, merit-based scholarship, and it will cover his tuition, room and board at GTS. Read more...
The General Theological Seminary has announced the next recipients of its Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa, to be conferred at the 192nd Commencement ceremonies on May 14, 2014. Three distinguished leaders of The Episcopal Church will receive the honorary degree: the Rt. Rev. Douglas Hahn ’96, the Rt. Rev. Chip Stokes ’90, and the Rev. Canon C. K. Robertson, Ph.D.
The Rt. Rev. Douglas Hahn, former rector of St. Read more...
Religious Iconography of the 19th and 20th Centuries
February 6-27, 2014
The Christoph Keller, Jr., Library
at The General Theological Seminary
440 West 21st Street (between 9th & 10th Ave)
New York City
Exhibition hours: Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
January 28, 2014 (New York) – Opening on February 6, a special exhibition of religious iconography will be displayed at The General Theological Seminary.
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New York City – On the evening of October 17, 2013, during a Festive Eucharist in the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, the Very Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle was installed as the thirteenth Dean and President of The General Theological Seminary. Witnessed by nearly 300 attendees, the symbols of the office were conferred on Dunkle by the Chair of the GTS Board of Trustees, the Rt.
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Dr. Deirdre Good, Professor of New Testament at The General Theological Seminary, has been appointed as Academic Dean beginning this school year. This new position grows out of the former position of Sub-Dean and will play a leadership role in General Seminary’s academic programs. As Academic Dean, Prof. Good will focus on both current and future systems as General Seminary develops the way it educates and forms leaders for a changing church and a changing world. Read more...
Stewardship of Religious Buildings: The Church as Centerpiece of Community and Congregation
The General Theological Seminary
440 West 21st Street, New York
Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13, 2013
Single Day Ticket: $125
Three Day All-Access: $300
Registration: religiousbuildings.eventbrite.com
The General Theological Seminary with Lichten Craig Donaldson Architects will host a three-day seminar on the stewardship of religious institutions. The seminar will look at religious buildings as both three-dimensional theological statements and as long-term assets and investments central to a church’s mission, focusing on physical and financial planning to enhance a church’s value as real property and a center in the larger community. Read more...
May 14, 2013 (GTS News) – The Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle was elected on May 14, 2013 to be the 13th Dean and President of The General Theological Seminary in New York City by the GTS Board of Trustees. He will officially begin serving as Dean and President on July 1, 2013.
In his address to the Board of Trustees following his election, Dunkle said, “we need to return importance to the word ‘General’ in our title; we are The General Theological Seminary. Read more...
The General Theological Seminary has announced the next recipients of its Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa, to be conferred at the 191st Commencement ceremonies on May 15, 2013. Three distinguished leaders of The Episcopal Church will receive the honorary degree: the Reverend Carol Anderson, the Right Reverend Andrew M. L. Dietsche, and the Right Reverend Dorsey W. M. McConnell.
The Rev. Carol Anderson was ordained a priest in 1977, among the first women so ordained in The Episcopal Church. Read more...
Funding provided through generous Legacy Gift from the Estate of the Rev. Davis Given
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church (GTS) announces The Rev. Davis Given Housing Scholarship Fund to assist matriculated GTS students with the cost of on-campus housing. The Rev. Given graduated from General in 1949, and was one of the first priests to minister in what is now known as the Episcopal Church in Navajoland, an area of Native American lands in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Read more...
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church (GTS), located in the city of New York, invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean and President.
This search takes place at a crucial moment in the life of GTS and The Episcopal Church which it serves. The Board of Trustees seeks a person who is an energetic, faithful Christian who will lead GTS into its third century of service to the Church. Read more...
Sale of Guest Room Facility Brings Plan for
Financial Stabilization to a Close
Seminary’s Debt Eliminated and
Endowment Significantly Restored
New York City – The Rev. Lang Lowrey, President of The General Theological Seminary (GTS), announced September 13, 2012, that the Seminary has closed on the sale of the “hotel” portion of the Desmond Tutu Center. Opening in 2005, the hotel facility consists of 60 guestrooms at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 20th Street in Chelsea. Read more...
Joins GreenFaith, The Green Seminary Initiative to Assist in Developing ‘Green’ Certification for Seminaries Nationwide
The General Theological Seminary (GTS) is partnering with GreenFaith, a leading interfaith environmental coalition and the Green Seminary Initiative (GSI) to create a new environmental certification program specifically designed for seminaries and theological schools.
GTS is a charter member among a small, select group of pilot seminaries and theological schools that will help GreenFaith and GSI define the new certification program’s standards and procedures during 2012. Read more...
First Recipient Will Represent GTS in Tanzania This Summer
The General Theological Seminary (GTS) announces the F.A.R. and Wide Scholarship in Mission and World Anglicanism which allows one matriculated General student to travel to a foreign nation to experience the mission activity being carried on there by the Episcopal Church. The Scholarship takes its name from the bishops who helped initiate the program: the Rt. Rev. Read more...
Donna Ashley, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at The General Theological Seminary (GTS), has announced that Jonathan Silver has been named the Seminary’s new Director of Development. Silver brings an in-depth experience of fundraising gained over twenty five years of work in the metropolitan development community. He comes to GTS from the Migraine Research Foundation where he planned and implemented all aspects of their fundraising strategy, focused particularly on branding and corporate story-telling aimed at developing institutional support, broadening the scope of the donor base, and establishing a presence within the important new venue of social media. Read more...
