Adelaide College of Divinity
Coordinates: 34°55′52″S 138°32′55″E / 34.931001°S 138.548599°E
| Adelaide College of Divinity | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1979 |
| Type | Theological college |
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Campus | Brooklyn Park, South Australia |
| Website | Adelaide College of Divinity |
Adelaide College of Divinity (ACD) is an accredited higher education provider offering diploma, associate and bachelor degrees, graduate diplomas, master and doctoral degrees in ministry, it is also a Registered Training Organisation offering certificates and a diploma.
There are close associations between the ACD and the Churches of Christ in South Australia, as well as the Australian Lutheran College.
The ACD offers degrees in its own right and until 2011 formed the School of Theology at Flinders University in the Faculties of Education, Humanities, Law, and Theology.[1]
The ACD brought together the Adelaide Theological Library,[2] from the three collections of the colleges. The library has grown since the merger and in 2006 held over 60,000 volumes, including many dating back before 1850 and some to the 17th century.
Within the college grounds is a labyrinth designed by Adelaide stained glass artist Cedar Prest to honor the journeys of refugees and migrants. Symbols incorporated in the labyrinth include a large chalice and a central wafer - a reference to Holy Communion. A stylised version of the labyrinth is used as the college logo.
[edit] History
The ACD started as an ecumenical consortium of the theological colleges of the Anglican (St Barnabas College), Baptist (Burleiogh College), Roman Catholic (the St Fancis Xavier Seminary, now the Catholic Theological College) and Uniting (Parkin-Wesley College, from December 2008 known as Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)) Churches, and the Bible College of South Australia in Adelaide, South Australia in 1979.
In the late September 1997 the three constituent colleges in Adelaide joined at the one site in Brooklyn Park, South Australia. Teaching began on 7 October and the ACD campus was officially opened on Sunday, 9 November by the Governor of South Australia, Sir Eric Neal
The Baptist Church's Burleigh College and the Bible College of South Australia later withdrew and now offer awards from the Australian College of Theology.
Nungalinya College was associated with the ACD at one time. Nungalinya College is ecumenical with a focus on theological education and training for ministry for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is located in Darwin, Northern Territory.
In 2010 Uniting Church merged Coolamon had joined the ACD in 2003 after earlier being based in Brisbane where it had been a member of the Brisbane College of Theology. It also had also offered Sydney College of Divinity courses.
With the 2010 withdrawal[3] of all but the Uniting Church and the merger of Coolamon College, it's distance education provider, with the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology, the College nonetheless continues to provide theological education.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b About_ACD accessed 7 June 2011
- ^ Adelaide Theological Library
- ^ St Barnabas' Theological College now only offering Charles Sturt University courses as an associate of St Mark’s National Theological Centre
