About P.T.S.

Sound Biblical Learning from the Masters of Christendom

Pastor Theological Seminary is an extension of Saint Michael Ministries and the Church body of the Chapel of Saint Michael. Our Administrative Director is Rev. Wayne T. Ouellette Sr. OASM. Who, along with the Church, carries a burden to help instruct and equip a strong generation of Pastors and Christian Thinkers. Men such as these are so desperately needed in our time.

Students will benefit from the strict adherence to Biblical Doctrine. The flexibility of Self-paced Distance Learning an further benefit from the affordability offered through our off-campus learning model. We encourage Students to achieve the education necessary by the simplicity of our learning model, to answer their “calling” to serve. Whereas otherwise, the costs, distance and other unavoidable commitments  may have made such an education an impossibility for them.

 The Mission of Pastor Theological Seminary

Our First Mission is to provide a sound, Biblical Foundation to those desiring to be Preachers, Teachers, and Counselors of God’s Word. Preparing You, equipping You well for Your Service to the Lord.

You will Learn from Some of the Greatest Christian Theologians

Throughout history, there have been many truly great Christian thinkers who have contributed significantly to our understanding of God and how He works through His people. These theologians have shed a bright light on numerous challenging religious and spiritual matters, and even directed the course of human history through tremendous actions such as the great Protestant Reformation.

Your Pastoral Studies with Pastor Theological Seminary are permeated with the grand knowledge of such great historical Christian Leaders, Professors, Priests and Pastors. Many who were the earliest fathers of the Protestant Reformation. Listed below are such Christian Masters You will learn from.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther was born November 10 1483, was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God’s punishment for sin could be purchased by buying indulgences from the Vatican. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. In 1510, Luther traveled as part of delegation from his monastery to Rome. In 1511, he transferred from the monastery in Erfurt to one in Wittenberg where, after receiving his doctor of theology degree, he became a professor of biblical theology at the newly founded University of Wittenberg. From 1533 to his death in 1546 he served as the Dean of the theology faculty at Wittenberg.

John Calvin

John Calvin was born July 10 1509 in Noyon, France. He was raised in a staunch Roman Catholic family. He became an extremely influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. By 1536, John Calvin had disengaged himself from the Roman Catholic Church and in Geneva began as a lecturer and preacher.

John Knox

John Knox was born in 1514 and was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and possibly the University of Glasgow. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church.

C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was born in 1898 and was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

John Foxe

John Foxe was born in 1517 in Boston, Lincolnshire. He attended Magdalen College and took his bachelor’s degree on 17th July, 1537. he became a probationer Fellow at Magdalen in July 1538, and a full Fellow a year later. In 1539-40 he was a College Lecturer in logic, and in July 1543 proceeded Master of Arts. Foxe was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridley, then Bishop of London, on the 24th June 1550.

Adolf Wuttke

Karl Friedrich Adolf Wuttke born November 10, 1819, was a German Protestant theologian. He attended Maria Maddalenen Gymnsaium in Wroclaw in 1830. After graduating in 1840, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Wroclaw. He further studied theology at Breslau, Berlin, and Halle, where he eventually became “professor ordinarius.”

Cyril Richardson

The Rev. Dr. Cyril C. Richardson was a Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was born in England in 1909 and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1930. He received the Licentiate in Theology, with high honors, from Emmanuel College, Saskatoon, in 1931. He then went to Union Theological Seminary, New York, taking the degrees of Master of Sacred Theology, summa cum laude, in 1932, and Doctor of Theology in 1934. Dr. Richardson joined the Union Seminary faculty in 1934 and remained there throughout his career, serving the seminary for forty-two years as teacher and administrator.

John Bunyan

John Bunyan was born November 28 1628. He was an English Christian writer and preacher, who is well-known for his book The Pilgrim’s Progress. In 1655, Bunyan became a deacon and began preaching, with marked success from the start. In 1672 he became pastor of the Bedford church in England. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, he is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on August 30th, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on August 29th.

Charles Finney

Charles Finney was born on August 27 1792 in Litchfield county, Conn. He studied law from 1818 to 1821, when he had a sudden conversion experience. After this he began to preach and was licensed to preach by the Presbyterian denomination in 1824. Wherever he traveled he started extensive religious revivals. Finney was appointed professor of theology at Oberlin College in 1835, minister of the First Congregational Church at Oberlin in 1837, and was named president of the college in 1852.

G.K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published many works including works on philosophy and Christian apologetics. In Christianity he found the answers to the dilemmas and paradoxes he saw in life. Some of his great works include Heretics and its sequel Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.

Philip Schaff

Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland and was educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgartt, and at the universities of Tubingen, Halle and Berlin. In 1842 he was Privatdozent in the University of Berlin, and in 1843 he was called to become professor of church history and Biblical literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.

Alexander Maclaren

Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11 1826. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching.

George Edmundson

George Edmundson was a clergyman of the Church of England and academic historian of the University of Oxford. Born at Redcar House in Redcar, Yorkshire, Edmundson was the eldest son of the Rev. George Edmundson of Redcar and St Leonards-on-Sea, by his marriage to Elizabeth Anne, daughter of William Whytehead of Thirsk. His father was lord of the manor of Agglethorpe in Coverdale. He was educated at St Peter’s School, York, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a demy.

Paul Wernle

Paul Wernle was a professor of church history and New Testament studies at the University of Basel around the turn of the 20th century. Wilhelm Bousset, his professor at the University of Göttingen and a student of Adolf von Harnack, had a lasting influence upon his historical approach to biblical criticism. The Beginnings of Christianity, relying upon the Bible and then-current historical and textual scholarship, traces the origin and development of the Christian religion.

Samuel Cheetham

Samuel Cheetham, DD, FSA was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. Chetham was born in Hambleton, Rutland and educated at Oakham School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He was an Assistant Tutor of his old college from 1853 until 1858; and then Professor of Pastoral Theology at King’s College London until 1882, during which time he was also Chaplain of Dulwich College. In 1879 he became Archdeacon of Southwark; and in 1882 of Rochester, a post he held until his death.

James Aitken Wylie

James Aitken Wylie was born in Scotland in 1808. His collegiate preparation was at Marischal College, Aberdeen and at St. Andrews. He entered the Original Seccession Divinity Hall, Edinburgh Scotland, in 1827, and was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1831. The name “Rev. J. A. Wylie” is affixed to most of his written works.

Charles Hodge

One of the great defenders of Calvinism, Charles Hodge is a well-known and important theologian. He taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for fifty years, and was its “principal” for over twenty-five years. He had a significant impact upon the intellectual climate of the 19th century. His Systematic Theology is his greatest work. Composed of three separate volumes, it addresses some of the most important theological questions of both that time and our current time.

Our passion is Teaching and declaring the truth’s of God’s Word

Whatever the purpose that He planted within You, it is our desire to assist You on that path. There is a need for qualified and knowledgeable Servants in His Kingdom, and as a Student using our Distance Learning Programs, You can achieve those goals. Our Biblical Study Programs are geared to support You in Your daily service, providing You the background necessary to build Your confidence to face the challenges that this world will present You.

Our Biblical Study Programs are designed for Distance Learning, and are a Self-paced Study. The Biblical Courses have been developed to help Students easily motivate themselves through the material. While some Students may find they do better in a guided classroom environment, most Students find they can easily complete the Studies with relative ease. You only need to apply a reasonable effort and discipline. Bear in mind, this is only the beginning of the learning process.

View Syllabus for Diploma Programs: 1. Christian Ministry, 2. Church History and 3. Church Leadership

Upon successful completion, You will be Ordained should You desire.

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