About
Regents Theological College is a theological college in Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is the national training centre of the Elim Pentecostal Church.
Established in 1925 as the Elim Bible College, it was founded by the evangelist George Jeffreys, co-founder and leader of the Elim Pentecostal Churches. It was originally situated in Clapham, London, and later moved to Capel in Surrey. In 1987 it moved again to the former Willaston School, Nantwich, Cheshire in 1987. It became Regents Theological College in 1996.
In the early 1990s the college gained a more academic emphasis, mainly due to the work of American New Testament scholar Siegfried Schatzmann, then a faculty member. The college began offering undergraduate degrees validated by the University of Manchester. Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are now validated by the University of Chester and doctoral supervision is also offered in partnership with Bangor University under the leadership of Dr Martin Clay.
Although it still offers training for ministry within Elim, the college has students from evangelical and charismatic Christian backgrounds, and free church and parachurch denominations.
The college moved to its current site in Malvern in September 2009.