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Education within the Benedictine Wisdom Tradition
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Adjacent to the Alcuin Library is the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). It houses the world’s largest collection of microfilmed medieval manuscripts. The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library has the dual purpose of preserving handwritten manuscript treasures on film and making them available to scholars. Since the library was established as a sponsored program of the university in 1964, it has systematically microfilmed complete collections of manuscripts in libraries and archives throughout Europe and Africa. The manuscripts, now preserved on microfilm in the Bush Center, were largely written by hand and have been preserved by Benedictine and other libraries. Through the production of catalogues and other tools of access, HMML has become a national resource for the documentation and study of the historical periods represented. This "collection of collections" at Saint John's contains more than 20,000,000 pages of microfilmed documentation.
Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research
Founded by the monks of Saint John's in 1967 as an independent corporation, the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research links the Benedictine tradition of scholarship with the new openness of Christians to one another and to the world at large expressed in this century by the World Council of Churches (founded in 1948) and the Second Vatican Council. The Institute, a residential center to which men and women from many religious traditions come to do research and writing for a semester or a year, is committed to supporting careful thought for the sake of mutual understanding and a more widespread, meaningful articulation of faith.
Liturgical Music Workshop
2007 National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry
Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute
The Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute (ISTI) was created in 1994 by Saint John's Abbey and University as a sponsored program in partnership with a national interdenominational leadership board to "facilitate the building of healthy, safe and trustworthy communities of faith." ISTI looks to systemic causes of failure in ministerial integrity across religious traditions, especially regarding clergy sexual misconduct, and promotes the prevention of sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment through research, education and publication. ISTI affirms the goodness of human sexuality and advocates respectful relationships through the appropriate use of leadership power within communities of all religious traditions.
Minnesota Consortium of Theological Schools
The School of Theology·Seminary is a member of the Minnesota Consortium of Theological Schools, which also includes: Bethel Theological Seminary (Baptist); Luther Seminary (Lutheran); The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of Saint Thomas (Roman Catholic); and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (United Church of Christ). The Consortium exists to make the resources of the participating faculties and their institutions more readily available to students of each school and to advance ecumenical understanding.
The five theological libraries hold 500,000 volumes representing 250,000 unique titles. These holdings constitute the most significant resource in religious studies in the area between Chicago and the Pacific Coast.
Saint John's School of Theology·Seminary
Collegeville, Minnesota 56321
Phone: 320-363-2102
Toll-Free: 800-361-8318
Fax: 320-363-3145