本文以天津養正聖經學院（1902年後更名為「天津新學書院」）為個案，通過考察學院在1863–1902年間的發展演變，以及發展過程中教職人員在教育目的、理念及方式上的差異，探究這一時期導致教育模式和學校風格轉變的因素、以及這種轉變對教會學校教育的性質、學生的塑造和在華基督教的發展演進所產生的影響。

The 1890s saw a rapid expansion of mission schools in China, among which a number of theological seminaries were established or enlarged in order to provide Chinese Christian workers with a systematic education, rather than traditional short-term training courses. This paper uses the Theological Institute of the London Missionary Society [LMS] in Tianjin 天津養正聖經學院 (which became the Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College天津新學書院 [TACC] in 1902) as a case study, examining the shift in its educational intentions, perspectives and approaches from 1863 to 1902, in order to explore the factors that caused this shift and the possible impact it had on the students and the nature of mission education, as well as on the evolution of Christianity in China during this period.