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Interdenominational Theological Center

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McCarty, Laura T

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Encyclopedia article about the Interdenominational Theological Center. The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), located in Atlanta, is America's foremost center of historically African American theological training and graduate study. Located in the heart of the historic Atlanta University Center, it began in 1958, when four denominations agreed to join their seminaries: Morehouse School of Religion (Baptist), Gammon Theological Seminary (Methodist Episcopal, later United Methodist), Turner Theological Seminary (African Methodist Episcopal), and Phillips Theological Seminary (Christian Methodist Episcopal). In 1969 the Johnson C. Smith School of Theology (Presbyterian Church [U.S.A.]) moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, and in 1970, the Charles H. Mason Seminary (Church of God in Christ) completed the six institutions that make up the ITC consortium. An Episcopal seminary, the Absalom Jones Theological Institute, became part of the ITC in 1971, but it closed in 1979 after declining enrollment.
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