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The Uniting College for Leadership and Theology located at Brooklyn Park South Australia is a Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) theological college for the education and training of both lay people and those for specified ministries including the diaconate and youth workers. It is a member college of the University of Divinity.

The College had its origin in Parkin Congregational College, in what was previously "Wavertree", the 64 North Terrace, Kent Town, residence of Frederick Holder, but owned by the widow of William Roby Fletcher. Rev. Dr Llewelyn D. Bevan, LLD, was in February 1910 its founding principal, a position he held until his death in 1918, and was succeeded by Rev. Edward S. Kiek, M.A., B.D., who retired in 1957 and died in 1959.

From 1930, staff of the Congregational Union of Australia's Parkin College and the Methodist Church of Australasia's Wesley Theological College lectured students of both institutions. In the 1950s, the Baptist College was founded in Northgate Street, Unley Park and further sharing of staff occurred, although more limited than between Parkin and Wesley. In 1968, Parkin College and Wesley Theological College merged to form Parkin-Wesley College at Wayville, the site of Wesley College.

Later, the South Australian UCA Lay Education Centre was merged in.

Coolamon College was the national UCA agency and provider of distance theological education. In 2003, Coolamon College moved from Brisbane to Adelaide, where it joined the Adelaide College of Divinity.

Parkin-Wesley College was renamed Uniting College for Leadership and Theology in January 2009, at this time it took on the distance learning function previously offered through Coolamon College.

Until the end of 2021 it contributed to theological education at The Flinders University of South Australia. It was a constituent college of the Adelaide College of Divinity up to the end of 2022.

• Parkin Congregational Theological College at Unley

People

• Reverend Dr. Andrew Dutney was Principal
• Reverend Dr. Ian B. Tanner was Director of Lay Education
• Reverend Dr. H. D'Arcy Wood was a lecturer at the college

References

1. ^ Uniting College for Leadership and Theology joins the University of Divinity, (5 August 2022), Vox: News, Articles and Events from the University of Divinity community
2. "Chrch Intelligence". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LII, no. 16, 021. South Australia. 21 February 1910. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "Parkin College". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. LXII, no. 19213. South Australia. 12 May 1920. p. 8. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
4. Arnold D Hunt, ed. (1980). Number 20, A Pictorial History of Theological Education at No. 20, King William Road. Uniting Church of South Australia Historical Society and Parkin-Wesley Old Collegian's Association. ISBN 0-909834-41-5.
5. Nag, Mar. Encyclopedia of Religion. Thomson Gale.
6. Distance learning at Uniting College for Leadership and Theology

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