PRTS provides theological instruction and training to facilitate the students' development of knowledge and skills as well as personal piety and Christian character that are essential for faithful, Christian ministry. We are committed to this balance of a sound theological education and the nurturing of healthy, personal piety. With the blessing of the Spirit, we aim to develop in the students a clear, systematic, intellectual knowledge of the Bible and the God of the Bible.

This foundational perspective for theological training has been held by most Reformed seminaries in the past and has been most successful in equipping students for practical and pastoral ministries. Gisbertus Voetius, a seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed theologian, expressed this perspective as "piety with knowledge" and, more recently, John Murray said that seminaries should promote "intelligent piety." This is the goal of all our academic programs and of every professor.