一般认为,基督教新教在中国正式的神学教育肇始于1886年。在此后百多年里产生的数十所新教神学院中,没有一所比金陵神学院或燕京大学宗教学院更具声誉和全国性的影响。在20世纪上半叶,这两所神学院共同掌揽着中国新教高等神学教育发展的基本方向。其中,尤其值得关注的 It is generally believed that formal Protestant Christian Protestant education in China started in 1886. None of the dozens of Protestant theology colleges that emerged more than a century later had more reputational and national influence than the Jinling Theological Seminary or the Yenching University School of Religion. In the first half of the twentieth century, the two seminaries jointly took over the basic direction of the development of higher theology in China’s Protestant theology. Among them, it is especially noteworthy