金陵协和神学院简介

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金陵协和神学院简介

金陵协和神学院是中国基督教的全国性神学院，由中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会和中国基督教协会主办，为中国教会培养牧师、传道人、神学院教师和基督教研究人才。本院的办学宗旨是：培养爱国爱教、坚持自治、自养、自传（三自）方针、灵德智体群全面发展、在灵性修养和神学知识上有较高造诣、善于团结信徒、乐意服务教会和社会的教会人才。 　　金陵协和神学院创建于1952年11月，在当时南京金陵神学院的基础上，由华东地区11所神学院及圣经学校联合而成，院长为丁光训。1961年，位于北京的燕京协和神学院也加入，使联合办学的学校数增至12所。1966-1980年，因文化大革命而停课，1981年2月恢复办学，院长仍为丁光训主教。2010年3月，董事会聘请丁光训主教为名誉院长、高峰牧师为院长、陈逸鲁牧师为常务副院长、王艾明牧师为副院长。2012年现有专职教师22位，其中有博士学位3人，还有5位在海外神学院攻读博士学位；现在有本科研究科学生310人，教牧研究生53人，函授学生1000人。现校址：江苏省南京市江宁大学城樵歌路100号。 　　金陵协和神学院目前有四种学制：全日制本科，招收高中及以上学历学生，学制4年，修读完所有课程，考试合格，准予毕业，发给本科毕业证书，并有资格申请本院学士学位；全日制研究科，招收神学及普通高校本科毕业学生，学制3年，修读完所有课程，考试合格，准予毕业，发给研究科毕业证书，并有资格申请本院硕士学位；非全日制教牧研究生班，招收全国各地已在教会工作若干年的教牧同工，学制2年半，每学期集中授课一次，每次约4-5周，修读完所有课程，考试合格，准予毕业，发给教牧研究生班毕业证书；函授班，招收初中以上文化程度学员，学制3年，修读完所有课程，考试合格，准予毕业，发给函授班毕业证书。 　　金陵协和神学院的课程以神学专业课为主，文化课为辅，课程比重分别占70%和30%。专业课主要包括四大类：圣经研究、神学研究、教会历史及实践神学。神学院在教学过程，强调学修并重，理论结合实际。在灵性修养上，鼓励学生重视个人灵修，参加集体早晚祷，参与学院每周日举行的主日崇拜事工。学生会以及在学生事工委员会指导下，由学生自发组织的各种团契，利用课余时间组织活动，丰富了学生的校园生活，增进了肢体间的团契精神。 　　金陵协和神学院是目前国内唯一一所全国性神学院，面向全国招生。1981年恢复招生以来，还承担着为各兄弟神学院校培养师资、为各地两会培养各种专门人才的任务，加上老一辈教师的影响，形成了金陵协和神学院教研并重的学术传统。学院除主动组织各种形式的研讨会、邀请国内外知名学者来院演讲外，还鼓励、支持老师积极参加学术界组织研讨会。学院出版部也组织力量，出版各种神学专著，尤其是出版本院老师教学之余的研究成果。学院长年坚持出版学术期刊《金陵神学志》，以及面向基层教会义工的《教材》。 　　作为一所具有国际知名度的学院，也是全国唯一一所具有聘请外教授课资格的神学院。金陵协和神学院本着独立自主的原则，积极开展对外交往，接待世界各地基督教知名领袖、学者和教会人士。通过报告会、研讨会和座谈会等形式，与来访的客人进行多方面的交流，增进了解，促进友谊。例如，今年10月，我们成功地承办了“第八届基督宗教在当代中国社会的作用及其影响”高级论坛。同时，也派遣本院老师出国（境）访学，参加国际基督教会议或进修。这些活动，扩大了学院的影响，使更多的海外朋友了解到我国的宗教信仰自由政策。同时，这些活动也有助于开阔学生视野，提高他们的思想境界，激发他们的学习热情。总之，积极的对外交往，为学院赢得世界基督教界广泛的理解与支持、提高学院办学水平、推进学院学术研究等方面，都有积极的影响。 　　金陵协和神学院自1952年创校时，就坐落在南京市鼓楼区大锏银巷，原金陵女子神学院所在地。校园占地不足30亩，仅能容纳学生200人。进入新世纪后，随着中国基督教的发展，金陵协和神学院的办学规模已难以适应教会发展。在中央和地方各级党政部门的支持下，在南京江宁大学城内划拔了200亩土地作为金陵协和神学院新校园用地，并得到中央财政的有力支持。在各方关怀下，金陵协和神学院新校园于2005年1月17日举行奠基礼，正式开工建设。2009年3月，学院迁入新校园，扩大招生规模，争取达到500人。 　　经过60年的办学，金陵协和神学院的毕业生约2000人，除约46人移居海外以外，其余分布在32个省（市、自治区），绝大多数工作在中国教会第一线，为中国教会健康发展，为维护社会稳定，为构建社会主义和谐社会作出了贡献。 　　自创校以来，金陵协和神学院在党和政府的大力支持下，在中国基督教全国两会领导下，靠着全院师生和全国广大基督徒的努力，遵循老院长丁光训主教拟订的办学方针，坚持走爱国爱教的三自道路，培养灵、德、智、体、群全面发展的神学生，已经取得了丰硕的成果。 　　展期未来，金陵协和神学院全体师生相信，已经在这里动了善工的上帝，必要成全这工。 　　求上帝祝福金陵，使金陵能为教会和社会培养更多优秀人才！ 　　（2012年11月稿） 　　Nanjing Union Theological Seminary (NJTUS), the national seminary chartered by China Christian Council and National Committee of Three-Self Patriotic Movement, cultivates preachers, pastors for churches, seminary teachers, and theological researchers for the Chinese church. The mission of NJUTS is to nurture church personnel who love their church and their country, who insist on the Three-Self principles (self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating), who have an integrated development in spiritual, intellectual, physical and social domain, who have made great achievements in spirituality and theology, and who are good at uniting believers, willing to serve the church and the society. 　　 Eleven seminaries and bible schools in the East-China Area merged together to form NJUTS in Nov. 1952, with K.H. Ting as her president. With the addition of Yenching Union Theological Seminary in Beijing in 1961, there were 12 members in the school’s alliance. The schooling at NJUTS was suspended due to the Cultural Revolution in 1966, and was resumed in Feb. 1981, with Bishop K. H. Ting serving as the president. In March 2010, the board of directors of NJUTS nominated Bishop K. H. Ting as the Honorary President, Rev. Gao Feng as the President, Rev. Chen Yilu as the Executive Vice-President, and Rev. Wang Aiming as the Vice-President. There are 22 full-time teachers, among whom, three have received PhD’s, and five are studying for PhD’s in seminaries overseas. Also, there are currently 310 undergraduate and graduate students, 53 pastoral graduate students, and 1,000 part-time students. The new campus is situated at No. 100 Qiaoge Road, Jiangning, Nanjing, Jiangsu. 　　 NJUTS has four Educational Programs. Firstly, the four-year full-time undergraduate program enrolls students with education of high school or higher. Its students are awarded undergraduate diploma after completing all courses and passing all examinations, and as well be qualified to apply for bachelor’s degree. Secondly, the three-year full-time graduate program enrolls students graduated from seminaries or universities. Students are awarded graduate diploma after completing all courses and passing all examinations, and as well be qualified to apply for the degree of Master Divinity. Thirdly, the part-time pastoral postgraduate program enrolls pastors from all over China who have already worked in church for several years. The program lasts for two and half years with four weeks' intensive courses each semester. The students are awarded pastoral-graduate diploma after completing all courses and passing examinations. Fourthly, the three-year correspondence program enrolls students with education from junior high school. Students are awarded the correspondence certificate after completing all courses and passing all examinations. 　　 The curriculum is set primarily on theology related courses with humanity courses as the complement, which respectively share the ratio of 70% and 30%. The former one is classified into four categories: Biblical Studies, Theological Studies, Church History Studies and Practice Studies. As for the plan for teaching, the seminary emphasizes on both learning and cultivating, while more on learning. As for promotion of spirituality, it encourages students to value individual devotion, morning and afternoon worship in weekdays and worship on Sunday mornings. Under the direction of Student Union and Ministry Committee for Students, various fellowships initiated by students spontaneously to fill into the leisure time have been enriching the school life and enhancing the communion between brothers and sisters. 　　 NJUTS is the only one national seminary, enrolling student throughout the country. Since its reopening in 1981, it has been shouldering the responsibility of nurturing teachers for its peers and researchers for CCC/TSPM at all levels. Influenced by elder generations, NJUTS has an academic tradition of emphasis on both teaching and research. Its main activities may be listed as follows. Firstly, it initiates a variety of seminars, symposiums and secondly it invites famous scholars domestic and overseas to lecture. Besides, it encourages and supports teachers to participate in symposiums organized by academia. Moreover, it is also eager for publishing literatures on theology, especially, the research output made by teachers of NJUTS while teaching. The regular publication includes Jinling Theological Review and Teaching Materials. The former is an academic journal while the later is for all the volunteers in churches in the grassroots. 　　 As an outstanding seminary at home and abroad, NJUTS, is also the only seminary in China that has the privilege to employ foreign teachers. In line with the principle of independence, NJUTS promotes active academic and theological exchange, and receives famous leaders, scholars, and church members from all around the world. Our theological understandings and friendships are enhanced by various channels of communication and exchanges through the forms of colloquium, symposium and seminars, etc. For example, we successfully presented The Eighth Advanced Forum on the Function of Christianity in Modern China. In addition, NJUTS also sends teachers abroad for further education, for visits, and to attend international Christian conferences. All of these efforts initiated by NJUTS have extended NJUTS' influence and have made known the policy of religious freedom, while simultaneously broadening students' minds and stimulating their enthusiasm. In a word, active external exchanges have played a great role in winning wide understanding and support from Christians throughout the world, in improving the educational quality of the seminary, and in enhancing academic research as well. 　　 The old campus, situated in Dajianyin, Gulou, Nanjing, covering an area of less than 30 mu (1 mu=0.0667 hectares), could only accommodate 200 students at best, which made it unable to adapt to new church developments after entering the new epoch. However, with the support of the Party and government departments at all levels, 200 mu in the university town in Jiangning District was allocated to us as the realm of our new campus, accompanied by some economic support. With all of this help and support, the groundbreaking ceremony of the new campus was held in Jan. 17th, 2005, which formally signaled the construction. The classes were moved to this new campus in March, 2009. NJUTS aims to enroll 500 students by gradually broadening its enrollment scale. 　　 During these 60 years, nearly 2000 students have graduated from NJUTS, 46 of whom resettled overseas while all of the others serve on the first line of the Chinese church, playing a significant role in promoting the sound development of the Chinese church and social stability. 　　 With the support of the government, the guidance of national CCC & TSPM, and the great efforts made by the whole faculty and all of the Christians nationwide, NJUTS has achieved abundant accomplishments in the sense of nurturing students who have an integrated development in spiritual, moral, intellectual, physical and social domain by following the teaching principles drafted by Bishop K.H. Ting, and also by insisting on the Three-Self principle to love one's church and love one's country. 　　 In regard to future prospects, all of the faculty and students of NJUTS are deeply confident that God, who began a good work here, will bring it to completion. 　　 God bless NJUTS! May more brilliant servants of God be nurtured by NJUTS for churches and the whole society! 　　 （updated in November, 2012） （院网站供稿）