In
the first decades of the nineteenth century, many New England Methodists realized
that their denomination was at a disadvantage because of the "brush college"
training of its preachers.In
the first decades of the nineteenth century, many New England Methodists realized
that their denomination was at a disadvantage because of the "brush college"
training of its preachers.
An ardent abolitionist, LaRoy Sunderland, led his brethren of the Bromfield Street Church in Boston to raise $15,000 and in 1839, they founded the Newbury Biblical Institute on the site of Newbury Seminary, a progressive Methodist secondary school in Vermont. This Institute, now Boston University's School of Theology, was the first seminary of the United Methodist Church.
19 April 2001
Boston University
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