Program Objectives
By completing this program, students will be able to:
One
Know the content and backgrounds of the Bible
Two
Demonstrate an increased understanding and use of the spiritual gifts and the five-fold leadership giftings.
Three
Explain how the character of Christ is vital to one’s personal life and to one’s ministry and how he/she is growing in this area.
Four
Gain a foundational knowledge of the historical and theological elements of church history and their impact on the church today.
Five
Be able to release the power of the Holy Spirit in situations requiring physical healing, emotional healing, and deliverance.
Degree Requirements
Introductory Requirements
GENL 1003 Academic Success
Covering basic research methods and writing skills along with exploring how to make choices that promote success, students are taken on a journey that covers the ‘how to’s’ for research and writing as well as exploring ways to take responsibility, to think about personal goals, and to achieve them. This course is designed to help students complete their masters degrees while appreciating the journey and doing some growing along the way.
Biblical Theological Foundations
BTHE 5003 Introduction to the Old Testament
This course lays the foundation for Old Testament study by providing a window into the historical, cultural, and geographical background, the literary and theological content and the practical relevance of the Old Testament. Students will be equipped with the necessary information, perspectives, and skills for using the Old Testament in effective Christian ministry so they embrace the Old Testament as relevant material for today and be moved by its themes to love God and people.
BTHE 5013 Introduction to the New Testament
This course provides a book survey and historical, cultural, literary, and theological overview of the New Testament for study and ministry. Special emphasis will be given to the supernatural and miraculous life of Jesus, the disciples, and the New Testament Church, through the breaking in of the Kingdom of God. The course will provide practical insights for ministry and personal spiritual life. Ultimately, the desire of this course is to stir the student in knowing and experiencing more of the kingdom of God.
BTHE 5023 Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the discipline of interpreting the Bible with the purpose of first, discovering, as far as possible, the intent of the original author and second, applying the lessons learned from the original author to one’s ministry context. Interpreting the Bible is meant to be an encounter with God through which we come to a deeper knowledge of who God is and His purposes revealed through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. To do this well requires the involvement of both the head and the heart.
BTHE 5243 Systematic Theology 1
A survey of the overarching doctrines of the Bible in which the class examines the nature of authority and how it applies to scripture as well as looking at the major doctrines of God, Creation, Man, and Sin with an intentional focus upon the Trinitarian nature of God and the oft-neglected understanding of the Holy Spirit.
BTHE 5253 Systematic Theology 2
A continuation of Systematic Theology 1 focusing on the areas of Christology, pneumatology, eschatology, ecclesiology, and soteriology.
BTHE 5283 Renewal Theology
Students will cover the core theological beliefs and distinctives of Renewal Theologies, especially Third Wave Theology. This course will provide the biblical-theological foundations for core beliefs against the backdrop of the distinctives of Third-wave theology, including the following: 21st century apostolic ministry or offices, ecclesiology, Renewal theologies in Protestantism, Christology, pneumatology (the baptism in the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit), faith, gospel and kingdom theology with eschatological implications.
Biblical Theological Elective Courses (Choose 1)
BTHE 5083 Gospels (Teachings of Jesus)
This course prepares the student to read and interpret the Gospels in their historical, cultural, literary, and theological contexts and to apply them in a modern setting.
BTHE 5093 Luke-Acts
An examination of the books of Luke and Acts as a continuous narration telling one story: from the return of the Spirit to Israel, through the miraculous conception of Jesus and his earthly prophetic, saving ministry, to the continuation of his prophetic ministry by those on whom the Holy Spirit is poured out, with special attention to the mission “beyond the house of Israel,” that is, to the nations, blazed by the unique apostleship of one Saul of Tarsus become the apostle Paul.
BTHE 5103 Ephesians
This course prepares the student to read and interpret Ephesians in its historical, cultural, literary, and theological contexts and to apply it in a modern setting.
BTHE 5123 Eschatology
This course introduces both personal eschatology (what happens to people once they die) and cosmic eschatology (the end of the present age and what follows), laying a foundational understanding of human destiny that affects the way we live in the here and now.
BTHE 5143 Psalms
An exploration of the Book of Psalms as a catalyst for personal devotion and contemporary ministry. Giving attention to its original form and function within a worshipping and reading community will unlock its riches for life today both individually and corporately. Attention will be given to its historical setting, literary form, canonical shape, and biblical theological significance. Opportunities will be provided to hone skills for interpreting Hebrew poetry for life today as well as to create contemporary expressions based on the Psalms’ themes and forms
BTHE 5163 Pentateuch
This course explores the Pentateuch as a catalyst for personal devotion and contemporary ministry. Giving attention to its original form and function within a worshipping and reading community will unlock its riches for life today both individually and corporately. Attention will be given to its historical setting, literary form, canonical shape, and biblical theological significance. Opportunities will be provided to hone skills for interpreting the Old Testament for life today.
BTHE 5173 Christian Theologies
This course introduces the discipline of Historical Theology – the chronology of the formation of Christian doctrines. Christian Theologies has been developed to create a better ability to recognize heterodoxy and orthodoxy. There is a special focus on doctrines that were developed as a result of revivals. Students will also be introduced to the various major theologies or doctrines of the Church: Eastern and Western including Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations.
BTHE 5183 Wisdom Literature
This course is a study of Old Testament wisdom literature including the books of Job, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and other key texts as to their historical context, rhetorical meaning, theological message and contemporary relevance.
BTHE 5213 Pneumatology
The task of this course is to encourage a truly authentic experience (“knowledge”) of the Spirit based solidly on the biblical text.
BTHE 5263 Pauline Epistles
An examination of the Pauline epistles.
LANG 5013 New Testament Greek I
This course teaches the fundamentals of biblical Greek. Students will learn pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and syntax as they translate chapters 1- 3 of the 7Gospel of John with the aid of a reading guide.
LANG 5023 New Testament Greek II
The basics of Biblical Greek, part two. PRE-REQUISITE: LANG 5013
LANG 5033 Old Testament Hebrew I
A study of the fundamentals of biblical Hebrew including vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, and syntax for the purpose of translating and interpreting the Old Testament text
LANG 5043 Old Testament Hebrew II
A continuation of LANG 5033 with further work on translating and interpreting the Old Testament text. PRE-REQUISITE: LANG 5033
LANG 5063 Introduction to New Testament Greek
This course will acquaint students with the essentials of the language that can deepen one’s understanding of God’s Word. A knowledge of very basic Greek will enable students to use many of the same study tools NT scholars use: lexicons, word-study dictionaries, grammars, advanced commentaries, and many scholarly books and articles. This course does not make one a Greek scholar, but it enables students to begin using Greek in ways that benefit their studies and ministry.
Revival History Courses
REVL 5013 Early Church to the Reformation
This course enables the student to gain an overview of God’s activity within history beginning with the biblical era and concluding with the Late Medieval period just prior to the advent of the Protestant Reformation. Readings will reveal the challenges the early church faced as they dealt with persecution, heresies and controversies to defend and formulate Christian doctrines such as the character and nature of Christ and the relationship of the Godhead within the Trinity. The student will also study the great teachers of the church, the development of the church including the division of the Eastern and Western church, the corruption which gave rise to the need for reform. This class will also devote special attention to how the Holy Spirit actively moved through individuals and groups with spiritual gifts and experiences during this period.
REVL 5023 Reformation to Azusa Street
A study of God’s activity within history beginning with the Reformation era and concluding with the Azusa Street Revival. Special attention will be given to the development and distinctive characteristics of the Reformation, and key revival movement that helped to shape the distinctiveness of Christianity in the American and British contexts.
REVL 5033 Azusa Street to the Present
Since the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the turn of the 20th Century, the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement has become a major renewal movement experienced by more than 550 million people worldwide. This course will study the history and development of this major move of the Holy Spirit. The class is not a traditional course on church history, but instead will look at church history through a pneumatological lens. In other words, it is a study of how the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, moved powerfully and supernaturally throughout the past 100 years to bring new life and vitality (renewal) to the church.
Practical Ministry Foundations
HEAL 5003 Physical Healing 1
This course will provide an introduction to practical and effective Christian prayer for physical healing. It will encourage students to establish a discipleship lifestyle providing healing prayer ministry in their communities. It will help students to understand the training necessary for effective healing ministry, and it will also outline for students the biblical foundation for healing prayer. Finally, this course will guide students in how to teach others about healing prayer.
HEAL 5023 Inner Healing 1
This course is designed to be an introduction into some of the concepts necessary for inner healing (sanctification). It addresses the topics of hearing God’s voice as well as the fundamentals of an inner healing session, forgiveness, inner vows and judgments, and an introduction into the orphan spirit.
HEAL 5043 Deliverance 1
To do the work of the Kingdom of God, the saint will not only heal the sick but will also cast out demons. This course seeks to introduce the topic of deliverance and to give a functional process for ministering freedom to those in bondage. Students will gain a biblical foundation from various authors and teachers in order to gain a basic theology relating to setting captives free
PMIN 5093 Five-fold Ministry Gifts
An intense study and practical expression of the working of the five-fold ministry within the church today.
Practical Ministry Elective Courses (Choose 2)
PMIN 5003 Spiritual Formation and Discipleship
Spiritual Formation is growing in our relationship with God, learning to hear His voice clearly, and continually renewing minds to His. Discipleship is following Him, adhering to His teachings and spreading the Gospel He preached: a Gospel accompanied with power. Students will be challenged to grow in both.
PMIN 5013 Christian Ethics
Christian Ethics is the discipline of making moral choices that reflect the teachings of Scripture and are consistent with the character and purposes of Jesus Christ. In making choices that keep us on the side of God, we stay in that place of spiritual and moral integrity and we display the nature of the Kingdom of God. This practice will require humility and love, careful and penetrating reflection, and a desire to live a life that is pleasing in God’s sight.
PMIN 5033 Ministry Leadership
Students will understand basic principles of Christian leadership, think critically and biblically about leadership practices in the context of the Word of God, discover their unique contributions and styles as leaders, and develop a personal philosophy of Christian leadership to be tailored to any context in life or the student’s unique ministry context.
PMIN 5043 Spiritual Gifts
The Apostle Paul said to ‘earnestly desire Spiritual Gifts,’ [1 Cor 14:1] so they are something we are to understand, pursue and release through us for the building up of the church and for evangelism. It is our obligation to learn and grow in Spiritual gifts. The purposes of this course are to enable the student to accelerate growth in his/her relationship with God; to identify Spiritual Gifts and describe their function; to learn how to use Spiritual Gifts in the context of the local church; and to learn how to use Spiritual Gifts for evangelism.
PMIN 5063 Models of Church Planting
Students will examine several models of church planting in order to be equipped to lay a solid foundation for church planting ministries.
PMIN 5073 Evangelism
This course is designed to develop principles necessary for effective evangelism in a 21st century context. It addresses the topics of Kingdom foundations, basis for evangelism, core values of evangelism, overcoming rejection and fear in evangelism, how to use the power gifts (healing, words of knowledge, prophecy etc.) as aids in evangelism, and how to lead someone to Christ.
PMIN 5083 Evangelism & Discipleship in Small Groups
This course is designed to develop principles for effective discipleship in a 21st century context through an examination of Jesus’ approach to discipleship and how to replicate His model. It also explores effective models of discipleship and discusses approaches to small group discipleship that could be used in a ministry or local church context.
PMIN 5103 21st Century Apologetics
Christians employ apologetics in order to counter the arguments of those who challenge the truthfulness of our faith claims and to win over those who find the Christian faith illogical, fanciful, or irrelevant. This is a course on how we follow Peter’s instruction to “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander” (1 Peter 3:15-16).
PMIN 5113 Prophecy: Biblical and Today
The purpose of this class is to equip students with a Biblical theology for the prophetic. It will give a biblical basis for hearing the voice of God as well as practical application of hearing God’s voice in our lives.
PMIN 5123 Intercession
An in-depth Biblical study of the life of intercession, based on the Bible and on a study of how the Holy Spirit revealed and lived out the life of The Christ through Rees Howells.
PMIN 5133 Homiletics
The purpose of this course is to study and practice the skills of sermon development especially as they apply to expository preaching. Sermon development will include the study of hermeneutics, biblical studies, and reliance on the Holy Spirit in 1) determining the meaning of a passage and 2) in creating a sermon that speaks the Word of God and applies that Word to one’s ministry context. Pre-requisite: BTHE 5023 Hermeneutics.
PMIN 5143 Becoming Like Jesus: Foundations of Christian Character
Students will explore aspects of Christian character that promote healthy life-long spiritual formation, including an examination of biblical accounts as well as case studies of some of God’s modern-day generals. Spiritual transformation, becoming like Jesus, necessitates more than mere spiritual disciplines. This class purposes to stimulate us to be encouraged and excited by the pursuit of virtue in its specifically Christian form, and to have our character shaped, together and individually, to become the human beings God means us to be.
PMIN 5163 Even on My Maidservant
A study of the call to ministry leadership with regard to women. The course will include: a broad survey of the relevant biblical texts and theological issues on the subject, the significant contribution women have made in the history of the church’s ministry, and the practical aspects for flourishing male/female partnerships in leadership. The student will form and articulate in writing a personal theology and/or ministry philosophy regarding the subject.
Clinical Pastoral Education
CPE 1006 Introducing CPE, Self, and Pastoral Care
The introductory course is designed to assist students in becoming dynamically aware of self and they provide pastoral care to individuals, Additionally, students become knowledgeable of spiritual assessments, cultural and ethical dynamics, and the use of supervision. Requires 100 instructional hours and 300 clinical hours.
CPE 2006 Interpreting and Describing Self and Pastoral Care
This course expands the student’s knowledge and use of self, one’s pastoral authority as the student navigates how to integrate spiritual assessments, develop appropriate pastoral and spiritual interventions, further engage in awareness of cultural and ethical dynamics, and use one’s peer group and supervisor for growth. Requires 100 instructional hours and 300 clinical hours.
CPE 3006 Evaluating Self and Pastoral Care
This course enables the student to critically analyze self as a pastoral provider, effectively engage in the use of spiritual assessments, document appropriate pastoral interventions, demonstrate increased autonomy, provide pastoral care with diverse populations, and demonstrate the ability to make use of an ethical decision-making process and to initiate consultative relationships with one’s peers and supervisor. Requires 100 instructional and 300 clinical hours.
CPE 4006 Articulating and Assessing Self and Pastoral Care
In this capstone course, students will critically analyze self as pastoral providers, effectively engage in the use of spiritual assessments, document appropriate pastoral interventions, demonstrate increased autonomy, provide pastoral care with diverse populations, initiate consultative relationships with one’s peers and supervisor, and articulate a pastoral motif/model that guides one’s pastoral care. Requires 100 instructional hours and 300 clinical hours.
Degree Summary
Academic Success
3 Credit Hours
Biblical Theological Foundations
18 Credit Hours
Biblical Theological Electives
3 Credit Hours
Revival History
9 Hours
Ministry Foundations
12 Hours
Ministry Electives
6 Hours
Clinical Pastoral Education
24 Hours
Total
75 Credit Hours
Master of Divinity - Chaplaincy Concentration
Degree Summary
| Courses | Hours |
|---|---|
| Academic Success | 3 Hours |
| Bible/Theol. Foundations | 18 Hours |
| Bible Electives | 3 Hours |
| Revival History | 9 Hours |
| Ministry Foundations | 12 Hours |
| Ministry Electives | 6 Hours |
| Clinical Pastoral Education | 24 Hours |
| Total | 75 Hours |
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