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The Adelaide College of Divinity Incorporated (ACD) provides ecumenical tertiary theological education, with the Uniting Church theological college member of the ACD, the Uniting College for Leadership & Theology. Our focus is on the professional and academic preparation for ministry, centred on student learning needs and with strong integration of practice and theory. ACD today is built upon a rich tradition of teritary theological education in South Australia. Following a long history of cooperation in theological education among many denomations dating back 120 years, the ACD was established in 1979 as an ecumenical consortium of theological institutions from Christian Churches. For thirty years the theological colleges of Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Churches, were members of the ACD. The Anglican and Catholic theological colleges withdrew from the ACD consortium in 2012. For those thirty years the ACD consortium has worked closely with Flinders University in providing theological education. ACD is a government registered Higher Education Provider offering accredited bachelor, master and doctor of minstry courses, which are descripted in the ACD Handbook. As a Registered Training Organisation, the ACD also offers VET accredited certificate diploma courses in Christian life and ministry. VET and undergraduate courses are also available by distance education. ACD courses enable students to examine the Christian theological tradition critically and bring the tradition into dialogue with the issues of contemporary society and the professional practice of ministry. The ecumenical approach of the ACD is enhanced by adjunct lecturers and fvisiting scholars, including faculty from the Catholica Theological College. ACD faculty also teach and supervise for Flinders University. The Adelaide Theological Library (ATL) on the ACD campus at Brooklyn Park is a specialist ecumenical theological collection affiliated with the Flinders University Library. The ATL collection includes well over 66,000 volumes, 220 current periodicals and various online resources, including citation and full text databases. The Brooklyn Park Campus is the location for teaching ACD and Flinders University Theology courses, and for the Adelaide Theological Library. Theological colleges located on the Campus include the Catholic Theological College and Uniting College for Leadership & Theology.
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