Features Overview
MISSION
To equip unashamed workers who are unashamed of the Gospel and unashamed of the whole counsel of God.
VISION
To build strong local Gospel churches at home and abroad, one godly leader at a time.
Our Identity
Denomination
Ryle Seminary’s founding affiliation is with the Anglican Diocese of Canada (formerly known as the Anglican Network in Canada, the denomination formed as part of the larger global movement to reclaim gospel-based Christianity within the Anglican tradition.
Tradition
Anglican evangelical in tradition, Ryle is a cross-denominational seminary serving a variety of evangelical and reformed denominations as we seek to lift up the Good News of Jesus Christ by equipping Christian workers for confident gospel ministry.
Ecclesiology
Ryle provides a home where men and women from many different denominations can train for ministry in the church. Ryle has a plurality of evangelicals in the faculty, which we believe is a wonderful witness of how orthodox, bible believing Christians can study and worship together. We affirm the traditional understanding of the Bible that the offices of presbyter and overseer are reserved for biblically qualified men. As a seminary rather than a licensing body, while our faculty, staff, and board affirm our views, we commit to train all who come to Ryle whether they share all our beliefs or not.
Founding Principles
Ryle Seminary faculty and council members annually subscribe to our Founding Principles.
1. We affirm the sufficiency, supremacy, and inerrancy* of the Bible, “God‘s Word written,” as our rule of faith, containing all things necessary for salvation.
2. We affirm that Jesus Christ’s death on the cross on our behalf was a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice for sin, that we are regenerated by the grace of God, justified through faith in Christ, and that there is no salvation available apart from him.
3. We affirm the Christian Church throughout the world as the company of faithful people where the pure Word of God is preached and the two sacraments instituted by Christ – baptism and the Lord’s Supper – are observed.
4. We affirm the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion as containing the true doctrine of the Church and the Jerusalem Declaration as a contemporary expression of this heritage.**
5. We affirm the Great Commission’s mandate to make disciples of all nations and to help believers reach maturity in the faith.
6. We affirm and uphold a traditional understanding of Biblical norms for marriage and personal morality.
7. We affirm working together with Christians across denominational lines in authentic, Biblical ways, celebrating unity with fellow believers in essential matters while respecting freedom of conscience in secondary areas.
8. We affirm the ministry of the Holy Spirit throughout history and in today’s world, as equipping believers for ministry to others and building up God’s church through miraculously changed lives.
* As expressed by the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, 1986.
** Non-Anglicans should note that this principle does not assert the exclusive validity of Anglican polity.