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Log College. The Log College, founded in 1727, was the first theological seminary serving Presbyterians in North America, and was located in what is now Warminster, Pennsylvania.
Dec 28, 2017 · These three volumes combine to tell a story not merely of a theological school derisively termed "the Log College," but also of men who sacrificed much and gave of themselves to the ministry of the Lord in colonial America, on whose shoulders we stand today. In William Tennent, Archibald Alexander, Thomas Murphy.
Those who had received clerical education at more prestigious institutions scoffed at the upstart school, nicknaming it “The Log College.” Yet history appears to vindicate Tennent’s seminary, as numerous graduates became significant leaders in the most powerful movement of God’s Spirit in the last 300 years, now known as the Great Awakening.
Log College Press aims to collect and reprint the writings of and about American Presbyterians from the 18th and 19th centuries. We seek to bring together in one place as much of the extant digital Presbyterian literature as possible.
The Log College is thought to be the first college in the colony of Pennsylvania and possibly the first seminary in America. It is also considered one of the first places to provide a needy student with a scholarship to attend school.
Oct 1, 2019 · Behind the man — William Tennent, Sr. — who founded the Log College in 1727, America’s first Presbyterian seminary, stood a woman: “Catharine Kennedy — the real founder of the Log College” (Thomas Murphy, The Presbytery of the Log College; or, The Cradle of the Presbyterian Church in America (1889), p. 118).
