History &Vision
OurVision
- Discover a vibrant community at Nazarene Theological College that nurtures your calling and empowers your future. Join fellow students, supported by attentive pastoral care, fostering lifelong friendships and flourishing faith.
- Shape innovative Christian leaders for the 21st Century. Imagine a learning hub that encourages your calling and envisions possibilities for the future. Together, we cultivate love for God, one another, and the world, enriching lives through enduring friendships.
- Embrace diverse perspectives as we learn together, transcending nations, cultures, and churches. Your varied experiences inspire meaningful exploration of life’s challenges and matters of faith.
- Experience transformative education from a top-tier university. Whether full-time, part-time, online or on campus, at every level—vocational, certificate, graduate, or postgraduate—find your path in our thriving Christian community.
Our Mission
"Loving God, one another, and the world through faithful learning."
We exist to serve God through equipping people for service.
We value
- Relationships: Loving God passionately, one another authentically, and the world sacrificially.
- Excellence: Striving for excellence in our worship, academic life, work and witness together.
- Learning: Gaining wisdom, knowledge and experience as we creatively research, reflect, and develop together.
Our Heritage
Some eighty years ago, NTC started at West Hurlet House near Glasgow. In 1959, we moved to the White House in Didsbury and incorporated Beech Lawn Bible College of Stalybridge. In 1997, Emmanuel College in Birkenhead joined us, commemorated by the Emmanuel Centre, our new library and classroom block.
Initially, students received a college diploma; now, they graduate with a University of Manchester degree as NTC has been a partner college of the University of Manchester since 1992. All gained qualifications, from certificates to doctorates, are Manchester degrees.
Belonging to the World Methodist Council, NTC is among fifty-three global colleges and universities linked with the Church of the Nazarene, a denomination rooted in the 19th century holiness movement. With over two million members in 150+ countries, the church adheres to historic Christian faith and evangelical principles.
NTC warmly welcomes students from any tradition who believe that they can benefit from the kind and quality of education the College offers. Past attendees include Anglicans, Baptists, Brethren, Congregationalists, Church of God of Prophecy, Methodists, Salvationists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and many others.
Our Principal, Revd Dr Deirdre Brower, has been leading NTC since 2012.
Our History
Former NTC Principals:
David McCulloch
Herbert B. McGonigle
Jack Ford
Hugh Rae
George Frame
Below are a selection of digitised books on the history of the Church of the Nazarene in the UK and of NTC’s own history.
- Hugh Rae, Scholarship on Fire: A Personal Account of Fifty Years of Nazarene College in Britain (1994).
- Written by a former NTC principal and one of its first alumni, contains first-hand accounts recording NTC’s history.
- T.A. Noble, Called to be Saints: A Centenary History of the Church of the Nazarene in the British Isles, 1906-2006 (2006).
- Written by a former professor at NTC, this updates Ford’s accounts and takes it into the 21st century
- Jack Ford, In the Steps of John Wesley: The Church of the Nazarene in Britain (1968)
- Written by a former NTC principal