Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) is a premier, academic divinity school located in Bannockburn, in the U.S. state of Illinois. TEDS is one of the largest seminaries in the world, enrolling more than 1,200 graduate students in professional and academic programs, including more than 150 in its PhD programs. The most popular degree at the school (the Master of Divinity degree or MDiv) prepares pastors, educators, and missionaries for many kinds of service. The school also offers a range of more focused Master of Arts programs in counseling ministries, Christian thought, New Testament, Old Testament, and other disciplines.
TEDS is affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America and is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. It publishes the Trinity Journal.
Trinity International University traces its roots to 1897 when the Swedish Evangelical Free Church began a ten-week Bible course in the basement of a Chicago church. From those humble origins, the school grew significantly in the early 20th century. Then, during the 1960s, the seminary moved to its present Deerfield campus (just north of Chicago). In 1995, Trinity College (located on the same campus), Trinity College at Miami, Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, Calif., and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School were united to form Trinity International University. TEDS also offers degrees through the University's south Chicago regional center as well as extension sites around the U.S.
In his inaugural address in October 2014, Trinity President David S. Dockery called for a fresh commitment to biblical orthodoxy, a historical Christianity shaped by the pattern of Christian truth, and a faithful intercultural, multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and transcontinental evangelicalism that stands or falls on first-order issues.
Douglas Sweeney - Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought, Director, Jonathan Edwards CenterGleason Archer - Former Professor of Old Testament and Semitics 1965-1986Barry J. Beitzel - Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Languages (1976-2016)Constantine R. Campbell - Associate Professor of New TestamentD. A. Carson - New Testament Scholar and Research Professor of New TestamentPeter T. Cha - Associate Professor of Pastoral TheologyJohn S. Feinberg - Chair of the Department of Biblical and Systematic TheologyPaul D. Feinberg - Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of ReligionNorman Geisler - Former Chair, Department of Philosophy of Religion (1970-1979)Dana M. Harris - Associate Professor of New TestamentMurray J. Harris - now Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis and TheologyJames K. Hoffmeier - Egyptologist and professor of Old Testament and ancient near eastern historyS. Lewis Johnson, Jr. - Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology 1980-1985John Warwick Montgomery - Professor of Church History, 1964-1974Harold A. Netland - Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Studies and the Naomi A. Fausch Chair of MissionsGrant R. Osborne - Professor of New Testament and author of The Hermeneutical SpiralDavid W. Pao - Chair of the New Testament Department and Professor of New TestamentClark H. Pinnock - Late Professor of Systematic TheologyElizabeth Yao-Hwa Sung - Associate Professor of Biblical and Systematic TheologyTite Tiénou - The Tite Tiénou Chair of Mission and Global Theology, Research Professor of Theology of MissionKevin J. Vanhoozer - Research Professor of Systematic TheologyJohn Woodbridge - Research Professor of Church History and the History of Christian ThoughtKeith E. Yandell, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, 2011-Mark Noll, noted Christian historian, professor of history at The University of Notre Dame*John F. Ankerberg, host of the "John Ankerberg Show"Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C.Craig Blomberg, New Testament scholar at Denver SeminaryElie Buconyori, founder and President of Hope Africa University and Bishop of the free Methodist church in Burundi and Kenya.William Lane Craig, apologist and professor of philosophy at Biola University's Talbot School of TheologyWilfredo “Choco” de Jesús, pastor of New Life Covenant Church, Chicago, and one of TIME’s 2013 100 Most Influential People.W. Kent Fuchs, provost of Cornell University and president of the University of FloridaLeonard G. Goss, book publisher, author, and editorBill Hybels, founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, one of the most attended churches in North AmericaWalter C. Kaiser, retired president of Gordon-Conwell Theological SeminaryDouglas J. Moo, New Testament scholar and theologianJames MacDonald, popular pastor and speakerScot McKnight, noted blogger, author, and New Testament scholar at Northern SeminaryJames Moore, historian of science at the British Open University and the University of Cambridge, and visiting scholar at Harvard UniversityMichael Young-Suk Oh, Executive Director/CEO of the Lausanne Committee for World EvangelizationCecil R. Richardson, former Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air ForceJohn D. Robb, chairman of the International Prayer CouncilMaher Samuel, Egyptian psychiatrist and intellectualLal Senanayake, president, Lanka Bible College, Sri LankaJohn Senyonyi, vice chancellor, Uganda Christian UniversityJeffrey Neil Steenson, coordinator for Episcopalian priests seeking reception into the Roman Catholic ChurchDavid Falconer Wells, Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological SeminaryJim Wallis, author, activist, founder and editor of Sojourners MagazineRavi Zacharias, Christian apologist
