Trinity Theological Union Alumni

Trinity Alumni is here to continue the work of Theological Union Graduate School, which was founded in 1999 and ceased operations in 2006. Although small, Trinity was and committed to providing the highest quality theological training in a non-traditional setting. Trinity offered Masters degrees in Theology and Divinity, and a Doctorate in Philosphy.

The Trinity mission was four-fold:

First, Trinity wished to equip men and women to minister to the post-modern, post-Christian world. This required unique emphasis on culture as an inter-disciplinary study. The curriculum was based on the assumption that good leaders and thinkers must learn the Scriptures, Church History and Theology. At the same time, they have to learn who they are as individuals, how that relates to the lives of others and what the impact is of the culture in which they find themselves.

Second, the direct result of the first is training men and women to engage culture. Every culture attempts to flee the one true God and ends up inventing its own petty, self-projection of god or gods. This is part and parcel of the depravity of the Fall. Yet every culture reflects the glory of creation. Because of this duality, Trinity believed that a person or a community could not receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ unless that message included joyful participation in what is good in a culture and honest confrontation of the darkness. Trinity wished to develop students who appreciate all arts, classical and popular, from architecture to zither music, as well as the sciences, in order to deepen their love of the God in all of His creativity. This would nurture a greater desire to know the human heart, the Word of God, and the coming and already present Kingdom of God.

Third, Trinity aspired to train men and women to see Scripture through a perspective that enlivens the primacy of story and mystery as it authoritatively forms the fundamental parameters of our life and worldview. Trinity believed that hermeneutics is not a science or a skill, but an art that molds us into maturity by the Word itself, the convicting work of the Holy Spirit in dialogue with the community of faith both past and present.

Fourth, Trinity craved to train graduate students to live lives worthy of the Gospel. This is possible through an ongoing process of humility that reveals our prejudices, transforms our hearts and ignites our passion for the Author of Life. The outcome should be a transformation that involves a shift in perspective and purpose, evidenced by how one relates to friends and enemies alike, to the body and to mind, and to the world in which we must live.