Student Resources

Our students represent a wide range of ages, previous employments, church backgrounds, and nationalities. This wide variety enriches the atmosphere and culture of the seminary while providing students with many perspectives and occasions for “iron to sharpen iron.”

The William Perkins Library

The William Perkins library currently contains about sixty thousand volumes. About five thousand books are in Dutch, with a few hundred additional titles in other languages.

The library is strong in the areas of church history and systematic theology, with special focus on Reformed theology and Puritan spirituality. The library subscribes to about two hundred periodicals and journals, but additionally provides online access to over two thousand journals through its subscription databases.

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The Puritan Research Center (PRC)

The seminary houses the Puritan Research Center (PRC) in a special climate-controlled room equipped with a Halon fire suppression system. The Puritan Research Center is the culmination of a dream that is decades old and offers exciting possibilities for promoting the appreciation of Reformed and Puritan literature around the world.

The PRC’s aim is to assemble the largest possible collection of resources on the Puritans, including antiquarian books (mostly from the seventeenth century) and modern reprints of Puritan writings, and secondary source materials on the Puritans such as books, dissertations, articles, and book reviews.

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Seminary Bookstore

Housed in our main seminary building, Reformation Heritage Books (RHB), a non-profit ministry that serves as our seminary bookstore, is an excellent source for Reformed and Puritan literature. Students can purchase most of their textbooks in the bookstore at discounted prices.

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Student Housing

The seminary has a welcoming committee that helps students find suitable accommodations for their time in Grand Rapids. If you would like more information about living in Grand Rapids, please don't hesitate to ask.

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Food Bank

Students can seek assistance from a food bank housed on the property of the seminary where they can obtain free groceries that have been donated from local grocery stores. This option can save qualifying students and their families thousands of dollars per year.

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Student Society

The PRTS Student Society is a student-led campus group that exists to enrich the years students spend at PRTS. All students are encouraged to be actively involved.

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Scholarships

The seminary’s Scholarship Fund collects funds to be distributed as scholarships for students demonstrating financial need and academic potential.

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Puritan Reformed Journal

The Puritan Reformed Journal (PRJ) is a biannual theological journal of the seminary. The purpose of the PRJ is to provide the church with biblically grounded and historically informed, Reformed experimental theology.

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