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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Missions and evangelism are core focuses of the seminary.

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
MottoPrepare here. Serve anywhere.
TypeSouthern Baptist seminary
Established1917
Religious affiliation
Southern Baptist Convention
Endowment$47 million
PresidentJames K. Dew
ProvostNorris C. Grubbs
Academic staff
70 full-time; 100+ adjunct[1]
Students2,004 (2021-2022)
Undergraduates792
Postgraduates1,212
480
Location
New Orleans
,
Louisiana
,
United States
Campus70+ acres - 70 buildings[1]
ColorsPurple & Gold
   
NicknameNOBTS, School of Providence and Prayer
Websitewww.nobts.edu

NOBTS offers doctoral, master, bachelor, and associate degrees. The seminary has 13 graduate centers in 5 states, 11 undergraduate centers in 5 states, and 13 on-campus research centers.[2] The main campus is situated on over 70 acres with more than 70 buildings.[3]

History

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NOBTS's Chapel
 
NOBTS courtyard

The Southern Baptist Convention founded the institution as the Baptist Bible Institute during the 1917 convention meeting in New Orleans.[4] New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, or NOBTS for short, was the first institution created as a direct act of the Southern Baptist Convention. The institutes's purpose was centered on missionary work, and initially established as gateway to Central America. The Seminary started as the Baptist Bible Institute in the Garden District and later relocated to the current location in the heart of Gentilly.

On May 17, 1946, the SBC revised the institutes' charter to enable it to become a seminary, and the name was changed to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.[5] Missions and evangelism have remained the core focus of the seminary.

In 1953, it relocated from Washington Avenue in the Garden District to a more spacious campus in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.[6] The school purchased a 75-acre (300,000 m2) pecan orchard and transformed it into what is now a bustling campus over 100 buildings, including academic buildings, faculty and staff housing, and student housing. The new campus was designed by noted Louisiana architect A. Hays Town.

In 1995, a campus was established at the Louisiana State Penitentiary following an invitation from the prison warden, Burl Cain.[7] The school has contributed to a significant reduction in the rate of violence in the prison.[8]

By 2022, it had opened six campuses in prisons in different states.[9]

For the year 2021-2022, it had 2,004 students.[10]

Presidents

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NOBTS has had nine presidents since its founding:

President Years of Service
Byron H. Dement 1917-1928
William W. Hamilton Sr. 1928-1942
Duke Kimbrough McCall 1943-1946
Roland Q. Leavell 1946-1958
H. Leo Eddleman 1959-1970
Grady C. Cothen 1970-1974
Landrum P. Leavell II[11] 1975-1995
Charles S. Kelley 1996–2019
James K. Dew 2019–present

Academics

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Accreditation

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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.[12] The graduate programs are also accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. NOBTS is also an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music and has authorization to operate in the State of Florida.[13]

Extension centers

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Graduate Centers Undergraduate Centers
Clinton, Mississippi
Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia
Blue Mountain, Mississippi

Archaeology

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June 3, 2011, ongoing works to clear the Bronze Age water system at Gezer, originally excavated by Macalister.

Timnah

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Between 1977 and 1979, George L. Kelm was serving as professor of Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology at NOBTS when he and Amihai Mazar uncovered biblical Timnah,[14] Tel Batash in the Sorek Valley of Israel.[15]

Gezer

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In 2010 a team from NOBTS launched an effort to clear a Canaanite Water Shaft at Tel Gezer in Israel in cooperation with the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority and the Israeli Antiquities Authority.[16] Gezer was first explored by R.A. Stewart Macalister over a hundred years earlier, but he did not complete a study of the water system because a freak storm refilled the system with debris and Macalister abandoned the effort.[17]

The NOBTS excavation has been chronicled in multiple sources including the Biblical Archaeology Review[18] and the Baptist Press.[19] In 2011 Dennis Cole, Dan Warner and Jim Parker from NOBTS led another team in an attempt to finish the effort.[17]

Notable alumni

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David Platt - former president of the International Mission Board, American Pastor and author of Radical
 
Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church
 
David A. Sampson, former United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce, president and CEO of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).

Politics

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Notable faculty

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  • John T. Christian, a Baptist preacher, author and educator
  • Benjamin Harlan, internationally-known arranger and composer of choral and keyboard works
  • George L. Kelm - discovered and excavated ancient Timnah between 1977 and 1979 while at NOBTS
  • Clark Pinnock, Christian theologian, apologist and author. He was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College.
  • Frank Stagg, theologian

References

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  1. ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2015-01-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Online Community - Member Services". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  3. ^ NOBTS Graduate Catalog 2010-2011.
  4. ^ James Leo Garrett, Baptist Theology: A Four-century Study, Mercer University Press, USA, 2009, p. 436
  5. ^ William H. Brackney, Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education, Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 300
  6. ^ Gary D. Myers, New Orleans Seminary Celebrates One Hundred Years, baptistpress.com, USA, April 20, 2018
  7. ^ Erik Eckholm, Bible College Helps Some at Louisiana Prison Find Peace, nytimes.com, USA, October 5, 2013
  8. ^ Michael Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron R. Johnson, Sung Joon Jang, Grant Duwe, The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation, Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, 2016, p. 234
  9. ^ Prison Seminaries Foundation, Find a Prison Ministry, prisonseminaries.org, USA, retrieved February 20, 2023
  10. ^ Univstats, NOBTS Student Population, univstats.com, USA, retrieved February 20, 2023
  11. ^ "NOBTS - Seminary mourns passing of President Emeritus Dr. Landrum P. Leavell II". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  12. ^ COC Accredited Colleges & Universities Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools website
  13. ^ "Graduate Catalogue 2007-08" (PDF).
  14. ^ "Home - Tandy Institute". www.tandyinstitute.org. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
  15. ^ [1] [permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ "רשות הטבע והגנים - Homepage". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  17. ^ a b [2] [permanent dead link‍]
  18. ^ "It's Finally Being Done". The BAS Library. August 24, 2015.
  19. ^ "Baptist Press - Abraham-era water tunnel is target of dig - News with a Christian Perspective". Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  20. ^ "Early Baptists in Louisiana: G. Earl Guinn, September 27, 2007". baptistmessage.com. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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