Graduate Programs

Academy, Abbey, and Apostolate

Academy

Seattle Pacific University is known for its robust scholarly environment. Graduate theological students learn in a collaborative milieu with faculty colleagues from many disciplines across the University. Professors are Christian scholars who value academic excellence, research, and teaching that is in service to the church.

Abbey

Our graduate programs stress the importance of accountable discipleship, and provide opportunities for worship and informal fellowship in intentional Christian community — all for the purpose of forming students and faculty in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.

Apostolate

The School of Theology is an “apostolate” — a place of sending forth, a kind of 21st-century mission agency. All graduate students participate in service activities, especially with the poor (acts of mercy and justice) and frequently find themselves socially dislocated — for the sake of the gospel — through urban or global multicultural experiences.

In the SPU graduate theology programs, prayer, and service provide the seedbed for scholarly study, vocational exploration, and preparation for leadership in the congregation, the campus, and the classroom. This combination of academy, abbey, and apostolate is unique among graduate theological schools.

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“The School of Theology graduate programs train the next generation of Christian leadership to engage the multicultural context of our world with the powerfully humble message of Jesus Christ. We dare to hope that our students will be sent out as intellectually stimulated, spiritually transformed, mission-focused servants of the gospel.”

Dr. Doug Strong, Dean