Pikes Peak Bible Seminary

Pikes Peak Bible Seminary was an unaccredited correspondence school in Manitou Springs, Colorado.[1] It was founded by C. J. Burton in 1927, and was also known as Burton College and Seminary.[2]

The seminary was used in the 1930s and 1940s by pastors seeking doctorates while serving in a church: William Hendriksen obtained a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from Pikes Peak (before getting a Doctor of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary) while Victor Paul Wierwille received a Doctor of Theology degree.[1]

The seminary was regarded as a diploma mill by the United States Office of Education.[3]

References
  1. English Language Bible Translators. McFarland & Company. 2015. p. 252. ISBN 9781476610238. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  2. Piepkorn, Arthur Carl (1977). Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, Volumes 3-4. Harper & Row. p. 76.
  3. "The Scandal of Bogus Degrees". Christianity Today. 9 May 1960. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

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