MCMASTER DIVINITY COLLEGE

The mission of McMaster Divinity College is to develop effective evangelical Christian leaders for the Church, academy, and society through graduate-level education, spiritual development, and vocational formation... McMaster Divinity College is heir to an educational tradition that reaches back to 1838, when a Scots pastor named John Gilmour founded Canada Baptist College in the then commercial centre of Canada, Montreal. At the heart of the College was the theological curriculum. Unfortunately, circumstances led to the closing of the college in 1849... McMaster University was reorganized in 1957 allowing for governance of the institution to pass from the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec (CBOQ) to a privately-chartered, publicly-funded arrangement. The theological program was transformed into McMaster Divinity College, a separately-chartered affiliate College of the University with its own degree-granting powers, although the Faculty of Theology remains in name, with selected..

Also known as: McMaster

Primary location: Hamilton