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BROOKS CENTER FOR SPIRITUALITY

History

The Brooks Center for Spirituality (BCS) is named in honor of Nona Lovell Brooks, the first ever woman minister in the city of Denver, Colorado and the founder of the original college from which BCS has evolved. It is an institution of higher learning that has been educating spiritually motivated seekers and students since 1898.

Educational Philosophy

The Brooks Center for Spirituality is committed to perpetuating and promoting the teachings of Divine Science as defined by its founders and to teaching knowledge of the divine and of the principles of consciousness as presented in Divine Science, other New Thought traditions, and the Judeo-Christian tradition; to providing an ecumenical setting for comparative education in the worldwide history of spirituality and of mysticism; and to providing a non-denominational and independent institution of adult education for persons seeking personal and cultural enrichment, especially in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and cosmology as they relate to religion and spirituality.

Purpose

To provide an open, non-dogmatic environment for religious education for all people seeking cultural enrichment and spiritual enlightenment.

To provide professional instruction and training for teachers, practitioners, and ministers in the field of New Thought in general and for the Divine Science denomination in particular.

To provide continuous education for New Thought and other ministries in order that current and on-going professional standards may be maintained.

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