Latin American Adventist Theological Seminary

Definition and Introduction

The Latin American Adventist Theological Seminary (SALT) is an institution related to the southern American administrative division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (DSA), itself an extended branch of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists (GC), which has its world headquarters in Maryland, USA. The DSA is located in Brasilia – Brazil’s national capital – and houses the administrative offices that coordinate the church’s work in South America. SALT functions under the supervision of the administrative board of the DSA, having its own specific coordinator, who supervises the work of eight theological seminaries in five countries. Each of the affiliated seminaries is administratively considered an extension of SALT and has its own operative organization within a local Adventist university and an ecclesiastic administrative subregion. The main function of the seminaries is to train pastors for acting in the diverse areas where the church...