How can a Christian seminary teach all those different faiths? Will Christian faculty be training Jewish students to be rabbis and Muslim students to be imams?
Claremont School of Theology’s Christian faculty would in no way presume to try to train students to become rabbis or imams. Rather, Christians, Muslims, and Jews will now have the opportunity to take classes together to learn about each other’s religious traditions, to study topics that deal specifically with interfaith issues, and to build bridges through coursework that assists them, our society’s future religious leaders, to act collaboratively in response to the various issues that face our society and world. Jewish rabbinical, Cantorial and chaplaincy students will continue to receive their degrees from the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, but now they also have the option of taking CST classes—in areas such as psychology, biblical studies, music and spirituality. In the same way CST ministerial students will continue to receive their degrees from CST, but now they also have the option of taking classes from AJR-CA professors. Once the Center for Advanced Islamic Scholars
