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The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa aka Fedsem was a multi-denominational theological seminary in South Africa, and an experiment in ecumenical theological education .
The Seminary was created for the purpose of providing theological education and ministerial formation for candidates from the Anglican, Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches in southern Africa, in an ecumenical setting and within a non-racial community context.
staff and students of the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern of Africa (Fedsem) leave their premises by the following Friday, allegedly because they had been instrumental in the school boycott and the street demonstrations organised the same month by the youth in
The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa was established in a changing and fluid situation in 1960s South Africa both politically and ecclesiastically. Its foundation can be attributed to the influence of these national and church influences.
- Graham Duncan
EMOTIONS AS FEDSEM OFFICIALLY SHUTS DOWN. There were tears of sadness as former students, Friends and staff of the now defunct Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa (Fedsem) gathered at the seminary’s last campus at Imbali in Pietermaritzburg, to bring an end to the painful story of the abrupt closure of the institution, on 18 February.
26 de sept. de 2007 · It was a combination of political circumstances and ecumenical vision that caused these churches to establish the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa in 1963. This article traces the flow of the Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist and Anglican streams towards this ecumenical experiment in convergence.
Graham Duncan (now a UNISA Church History professor) taught at the Federal Theological Seminary (Fedsem) in the 1980s, while Philippe Denis knew it well from consultations in the early 1990s within the cluster of theological institutions round his Pietermaritzburg university base.
