Claremont School of Theology (CST) is a graduate school located in Claremont, California, offering Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctorate of Ministry and Ph.D. degrees in religion and theology. It has a relationship with Claremont Graduate University which allows the two schools to share faculty members, library resources, cultural events, and joint academic research endeavors.
History
Originally founded as the Maclay School of Theology in San Fernando, California in 1885, the Methodist seminary was founded by Charles Maclay, founder of the town of San Fernando, former Methodist minister and State Senator. The school became affiliated with the University of Southern California from 1900 to 1957, staying on the USC campus until it moved to its present location in Claremont. The school is one of thirteen seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church, though usually more than forty different denominations are represented in the student body in any given school term.
Please join us as we celebrate the 2021 graduates of Claremont School of Theology. Nearly one hundred students will graduate at the masters and doctoral levels in professional and academic degree programs. Many congratulations!
Claremont School of Theology
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00am Pacific Time
published: 20 May 2021
CST Campus Video
published: 09 Nov 2020
Claremont School of Theology 2017
Aerial Video over and around the Claremont School of Theology.
published: 21 Sep 2017
Claremont School of Theology Welcome Ceremony
Willamette University welcomed the Claremont School of Theology to its Salem, Oregon, campus on Aug. 23, 2019.
The two schools have signed an affiliation agreement, the next step towards formally establishing CST as the third graduate school of Willamette University.
More information about CST-Willamette partnership: http://willamette.edu/cst/
CST admissions: https://cst.edu/admissions/
Event Program
Background music performed by students or Honey Wilson.
Welcome - Stephen E. Thorsett, President, Willamette University
Invocation - Karen L. Wood, Chaplain, Willamette University
Welcome to the Land - Alfred “Bud” Lane III, Vice Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
Greetings
State of Oregon - Tobias Read ‘97, Oregon State Treasurer
City of Salem - Mayor Chuck Bennett...
published: 28 Aug 2019
Claremont School of Theology
published: 28 Jul 2009
Pride Chapel: 2 April 2019, Claremont School of Theology
“Cast Out, Wandering, Free” - Dr. Ackley - Pride Chapel (Sexuality and Gender Collaborative), Claremont School of Theology, 2 April 2019. My MA in Religion is from CST (1991), and this was my first time preaching there.
Please join us as we celebrate the 2021 graduates of Claremont School of Theology. Nearly one hundred students will graduate at the masters and doctoral levels ...
Please join us as we celebrate the 2021 graduates of Claremont School of Theology. Nearly one hundred students will graduate at the masters and doctoral levels in professional and academic degree programs. Many congratulations!
Claremont School of Theology
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00am Pacific Time
Please join us as we celebrate the 2021 graduates of Claremont School of Theology. Nearly one hundred students will graduate at the masters and doctoral levels in professional and academic degree programs. Many congratulations!
Claremont School of Theology
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00am Pacific Time
Willamette University welcomed the Claremont School of Theology to its Salem, Oregon, campus on Aug. 23, 2019.
The two schools have signed an affiliation agre...
Willamette University welcomed the Claremont School of Theology to its Salem, Oregon, campus on Aug. 23, 2019.
The two schools have signed an affiliation agreement, the next step towards formally establishing CST as the third graduate school of Willamette University.
More information about CST-Willamette partnership: http://willamette.edu/cst/
CST admissions: https://cst.edu/admissions/
Event Program
Background music performed by students or Honey Wilson.
Welcome - Stephen E. Thorsett, President, Willamette University
Invocation - Karen L. Wood, Chaplain, Willamette University
Welcome to the Land - Alfred “Bud” Lane III, Vice Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
Greetings
State of Oregon - Tobias Read ‘97, Oregon State Treasurer
City of Salem - Mayor Chuck Bennett ‘70
Remarks
Bishop Elaine J. W. Stanovsky, UMC Western Jurisdiction, Greater Northwest Episcopal Area
Rev. Dan Pitney, Lead Pastor Salem First UMC
Rev. Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, President, Claremont School of Theology
Rev. Dr. José F. Morales, Disciples Seminary Foundation Director of Pastoral Formation & Assistant Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology
Musical Interlude - “I Dreamed of Rain”, by Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel, performed by the St. Paul's Chamber Singers, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Salem (song lyrics below)
Ceremonial signing - Pres. Thorsett and Pres. Kuan
Benediction - Lea Appleton, Associate Dean, Office of Student and Community Life Claremont School of Theology
About Willamette University:
Willamette University is a nationally renowned private liberal arts university based in Salem, Oregon and founded in 1842 as the first university established in the western United States. Today Willamette enrolls approximately 2,600 students in its undergraduate College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and in its two graduate schools, the College of Law and the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. The University is recognized for providing students with a challenging, exciting, and engaging classroom experience and a strong emphasis on sustainability, civic engagement and place-based learning.
About Claremont School of Theology:
CST traces its roots to the 1885 founding of Maclay College in California’s San Fernando Valley. The School is celebrating 60 years in Claremont, California, offering graduate level programs, including Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry and Ph.D. degrees in religion and practical theology. CST is fully recognized and approved as one of thirteen official theological schools of The United Methodist Church, with close relationships with other Protestant denominations, especially the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - as well as interreligious partnerships with Bayan Claremont, an Islamic Graduate Institute; Academy for Jewish Religion, California; and University of the West (Buddhist).
Willamette University welcomed the Claremont School of Theology to its Salem, Oregon, campus on Aug. 23, 2019.
The two schools have signed an affiliation agreement, the next step towards formally establishing CST as the third graduate school of Willamette University.
More information about CST-Willamette partnership: http://willamette.edu/cst/
CST admissions: https://cst.edu/admissions/
Event Program
Background music performed by students or Honey Wilson.
Welcome - Stephen E. Thorsett, President, Willamette University
Invocation - Karen L. Wood, Chaplain, Willamette University
Welcome to the Land - Alfred “Bud” Lane III, Vice Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
Greetings
State of Oregon - Tobias Read ‘97, Oregon State Treasurer
City of Salem - Mayor Chuck Bennett ‘70
Remarks
Bishop Elaine J. W. Stanovsky, UMC Western Jurisdiction, Greater Northwest Episcopal Area
Rev. Dan Pitney, Lead Pastor Salem First UMC
Rev. Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, President, Claremont School of Theology
Rev. Dr. José F. Morales, Disciples Seminary Foundation Director of Pastoral Formation & Assistant Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology
Musical Interlude - “I Dreamed of Rain”, by Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel, performed by the St. Paul's Chamber Singers, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Salem (song lyrics below)
Ceremonial signing - Pres. Thorsett and Pres. Kuan
Benediction - Lea Appleton, Associate Dean, Office of Student and Community Life Claremont School of Theology
About Willamette University:
Willamette University is a nationally renowned private liberal arts university based in Salem, Oregon and founded in 1842 as the first university established in the western United States. Today Willamette enrolls approximately 2,600 students in its undergraduate College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and in its two graduate schools, the College of Law and the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. The University is recognized for providing students with a challenging, exciting, and engaging classroom experience and a strong emphasis on sustainability, civic engagement and place-based learning.
About Claremont School of Theology:
CST traces its roots to the 1885 founding of Maclay College in California’s San Fernando Valley. The School is celebrating 60 years in Claremont, California, offering graduate level programs, including Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry and Ph.D. degrees in religion and practical theology. CST is fully recognized and approved as one of thirteen official theological schools of The United Methodist Church, with close relationships with other Protestant denominations, especially the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - as well as interreligious partnerships with Bayan Claremont, an Islamic Graduate Institute; Academy for Jewish Religion, California; and University of the West (Buddhist).
“Cast Out, Wandering, Free” - Dr. Ackley - Pride Chapel (Sexuality and Gender Collaborative), Claremont School of Theology, 2 April 2019. My MA in Religion is f...
“Cast Out, Wandering, Free” - Dr. Ackley - Pride Chapel (Sexuality and Gender Collaborative), Claremont School of Theology, 2 April 2019. My MA in Religion is from CST (1991), and this was my first time preaching there.
“Cast Out, Wandering, Free” - Dr. Ackley - Pride Chapel (Sexuality and Gender Collaborative), Claremont School of Theology, 2 April 2019. My MA in Religion is from CST (1991), and this was my first time preaching there.
Please join us as we celebrate the 2021 graduates of Claremont School of Theology. Nearly one hundred students will graduate at the masters and doctoral levels in professional and academic degree programs. Many congratulations!
Claremont School of Theology
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
8:00am Pacific Time
Willamette University welcomed the Claremont School of Theology to its Salem, Oregon, campus on Aug. 23, 2019.
The two schools have signed an affiliation agreement, the next step towards formally establishing CST as the third graduate school of Willamette University.
More information about CST-Willamette partnership: http://willamette.edu/cst/
CST admissions: https://cst.edu/admissions/
Event Program
Background music performed by students or Honey Wilson.
Welcome - Stephen E. Thorsett, President, Willamette University
Invocation - Karen L. Wood, Chaplain, Willamette University
Welcome to the Land - Alfred “Bud” Lane III, Vice Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
Greetings
State of Oregon - Tobias Read ‘97, Oregon State Treasurer
City of Salem - Mayor Chuck Bennett ‘70
Remarks
Bishop Elaine J. W. Stanovsky, UMC Western Jurisdiction, Greater Northwest Episcopal Area
Rev. Dan Pitney, Lead Pastor Salem First UMC
Rev. Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, President, Claremont School of Theology
Rev. Dr. José F. Morales, Disciples Seminary Foundation Director of Pastoral Formation & Assistant Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology at Claremont School of Theology
Musical Interlude - “I Dreamed of Rain”, by Jan Garrett, arr. Larry Nickel, performed by the St. Paul's Chamber Singers, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Salem (song lyrics below)
Ceremonial signing - Pres. Thorsett and Pres. Kuan
Benediction - Lea Appleton, Associate Dean, Office of Student and Community Life Claremont School of Theology
About Willamette University:
Willamette University is a nationally renowned private liberal arts university based in Salem, Oregon and founded in 1842 as the first university established in the western United States. Today Willamette enrolls approximately 2,600 students in its undergraduate College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and in its two graduate schools, the College of Law and the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. The University is recognized for providing students with a challenging, exciting, and engaging classroom experience and a strong emphasis on sustainability, civic engagement and place-based learning.
About Claremont School of Theology:
CST traces its roots to the 1885 founding of Maclay College in California’s San Fernando Valley. The School is celebrating 60 years in Claremont, California, offering graduate level programs, including Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctor of Ministry and Ph.D. degrees in religion and practical theology. CST is fully recognized and approved as one of thirteen official theological schools of The United Methodist Church, with close relationships with other Protestant denominations, especially the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - as well as interreligious partnerships with Bayan Claremont, an Islamic Graduate Institute; Academy for Jewish Religion, California; and University of the West (Buddhist).
“Cast Out, Wandering, Free” - Dr. Ackley - Pride Chapel (Sexuality and Gender Collaborative), Claremont School of Theology, 2 April 2019. My MA in Religion is from CST (1991), and this was my first time preaching there.
Claremont School of Theology (CST) is a graduate school located in Claremont, California, offering Master of Art, Masters of Divinity, Doctorate of Ministry and Ph.D. degrees in religion and theology. It has a relationship with Claremont Graduate University which allows the two schools to share faculty members, library resources, cultural events, and joint academic research endeavors.
History
Originally founded as the Maclay School of Theology in San Fernando, California in 1885, the Methodist seminary was founded by Charles Maclay, founder of the town of San Fernando, former Methodist minister and State Senator. The school became affiliated with the University of Southern California from 1900 to 1957, staying on the USC campus until it moved to its present location in Claremont. The school is one of thirteen seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church, though usually more than forty different denominations are represented in the student body in any given school term.
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