Bresee Theological College Explained

Bresee Theological College
Established:1905
Closed:1940
Country:United States
Campus:Rural
Former Names:Kansas Holiness Bible College

Bresee College was a junior college in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It has closed and merged with Bethany-Peniel College.

History

Mattie Hoke founded Kansas Holiness Bible College in Hutchinson, Kansas 1905.[1] It was first supported by a local holiness congregation called Apostolic holiness Church,[2] then later by the Kansas and Nebraska District Churches of the Nazarene[3] under the name of Bresee Theological College.[4] In 1917, R. E. Dunham was president of Kansas Holiness College.[5] It came under the leadership of Olivet alumnus Sylvester T. Ludwig, also the general secretary for the Church of the Nazarene,[6] starting in 1927.[7] [8] In 1940, its financial situation overwhelmed it and it closed to merge with Bethany-Peniel College, and Ludwig took the presidency there.[9]

The yearbook was called The Comet.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kansas Colleges That Have Closed, Merged, Changed Names . .westminster-mo.edu . January 8, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120103055733/http://www2.westminster-mo.edu/wc_users/homepages/staff/brownr/KansasCC.htm . January 3, 2012 . mdy .
  2. Web site: Called Unto Holiness Vol. 2 by Westlake Taylor Purkiser. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1983. . January 8, 2012.
  3. Web site: "Why These Schools? Historical Perspectives on Nazarene Higher Education" by Stan Ingersol . January 8, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120217090452/http://nazarene.org/files/docs/Why%20These%20Schools%20%20Historical%20Perspectives%20on%20Nazarene%20Higher%20Education.pdf# . February 17, 2012 . dead . mdy-all .
  4. Web site: USGenWen Census Project: Reno County, Kansas – - 1930 Federal Census Team Transcription . Us-census.org . January 8, 2012.
  5. Book: Yearbook of the Churches 1918, covering the year 1917, edited by Clyde F. Armitage . January 1, 1930 . January 8, 2012.
  6. Web site: Theodore and Minnie Ludwig: The Challenge of Evangelism . Nazarene.org . January 8, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929001912/http://www.nazarene.org/ministries/administration/centennial/goals/ludwig/display.aspx . September 29, 2011 . mdy-all .
  7. Web site: HERALD OF HOLINESS – SILVER JUBILEE ISSUE – OCTOBER 25, 1933, Nazarene Publishing House, Kansas City MO . January 8, 2012.
  8. Web site: Yearbook of American Churches: A Record of Religious Activities in the United States for the Year 1932, edited by Herman C. Weber, published by Round Table Press New York (1933) . January 8, 2012.
  9. Book: Under God by Garry Wills, Simon & Schuster 2007, 44 . 9781416543350 . January 8, 2012. Wills . Garry . September 25, 2007 .
  10. Web site: Southern Nazarene University: History of Bresee College . Snu.edu . January 8, 2012.

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