SPECIFIC DEGREE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Old Testament Studies

OTS 300: Old Testament Survey I (3 Credits)

This course explores the literary, historical, and theological issues behind the Old Testament.

301: Old Testament Survey II (3 Credits)

This course in the Old Testament offers students a thorough understanding of three key issues: historical background, literary analysis, and theological message.

New Testament Studies

NTS 300: New Testament Survey I (3 Credits)

This course is unique in the way it assists a close and complete reading, without bogging down in extensive introductions and over-academic material.

NTS 30I: New Testament Survey II (3 Credits)

This course focuses on historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, destination, and so forth, ensuring that the New Testament books will be accurately understood within historical settings.

Theological Studies

THS 300: Systematic Theology I (4 Credits)

This course aims to reconnect the often compartmentalized aspects of intellect, faith, and obedience in the study of systematic theology.

THS 301: Systematic Theology II (4 Credits)

This course aims to engage not only the head but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these aspects of life. Separating the academic discipline of theology from the spiritual disciplines of faith and obedience.

THS 302: Systematic Theology III (4 Credits)

This course brings together rigorous historical and theological scholarship with spiritual disciplines and practical insights characterized by a simple, accessible, comprehensive, Reformed, and experiential approach.

THS 303: Systematic Theology IV (4 Credits)

This course explores key Scripture topics from biblical, doctrinal, experiential, and practical perspectives, helping students grow in their understanding and application of the truth presented in God’s Word.

THS 304: Covenant Theology (2 Credits)

This course serves as introduction to Covenant Theology.

Homiletic Studies

HOS 300: Homiletics I (3 Credits)

This course covers expository preaching and guides students from preparation and organization to delivery.

HOS 301: Homiletics II (3 Credits)

This course covers the need for biblical preaching that both informs minds and engages hearts.

Hermeneutics Studies

HES 300: Hermeneutics I (3 Credits)

This course sets forth a concise, logical, and practical applications for discovering the truth in God's Word.

HES 301: Hermeneutics lI (3 Credits)

This course brings together a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics and moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism.

Church History Studies

CHS 300: Church History I (3 Credits)

This course covers the classic history of the church and brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century.

CHS 301: Church History II (3 Credits)

This course offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the early days of church to the years leading up to the Reformation.

CHS 302: Church History III (3 Credits)

This course chronicles the events, the triumphs, and the struggles of the Christian movement from the Reformation through the next five centuries to the present-day.

CHS 303: Reformed Church History (3 Credits)

This course covers the major events, leaders, and institutions influencing Presbyterian and Reformed church history.

CHS 304: Dutch Reformed History (3 Credits)

This course is a comprehensive study of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Apologetic Studies

APS 300: Christian Apologetics I (2 Credits)

This course examines the apologetics of Cornelius Van Til.

APS 301: Christian Apologetics II (2 Credits)

This course sets forth the principles that undergird a classic Reformed approach.

Evangelism Studies

EVS 300: Evangelism I (2 Credits)

This course covers a careful review of the biblical evidence, and shows how a right understanding of God's sovereignty is not so much a barrier to evangelism as an incentive and powerful support for it.

EVS 301: Evangelism II (2 Credits)

This course explains that because evangelism is the central work of a Christian’s life, there is a great need for students to understand what evangelism is and what makes it effective.

Mission Studies

MIS 300: The Mission of God I (2 Credits)

This course provides a sweeping biblical survey of the holistic mission of the church, providing practical insight for today's church leaders.

MIS 301: The Mission of God II (3 Credits)

This course examines the missional basis for the Bible. The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission.

Ethics Studies

ETS 300: Biblical Ethics (4 Credits)

This course covers how to apply a biblical worldview to difficult ethical issues, including wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, business practices, environmental stewardship, telling the truth, knowing God’s will.

Biblical Counseling Studies

BCS 300: Nouthetic Counseling I (2 Credits)

This course covers the development of both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee.

BCS 301: Nouthetic Counseling II (2 Credits)

This course is a continuation of the Biblical Counseling I course going deeper into nouthetic counseling.

Worship Studies

WOS 300: Reformed Worship I (2 Credits)

This course covers the fundamentals of worship, drawing from Scripture and Reformed confessions.

WOS 301: Reformed Worship II (2 Credits)

This course masterfully summarizes the worship of Israel and the early church and traces the development of worship through the period of the Reformation.

Confessional Studies

COS 300: The Canons of Dort (2 Credits)

This course looks at how there has been a renewed interest in the five points of Calvinism among many Christians today.

COS 301: The Heidelberg Catechism (2 Credits)

This course examines key aspects of the development of the Heidelberg Catechism, including historical background, socio-political origins, purpose, authorship, sources, and theology.

COS 302: The Belgic Confession (2 Credits)

This course examines the Belgic Confession as one of the most important and oldest doctrinal statements of the Reformed churches.

The student can either complete the biblical language courses or complete a masters thesis.

Elective Studies

BLS 300: Biblical Hebrew (6 Credits)

This course serves as an introduction to the Basics of Biblical Hebrew.

BLS 302: Biblical Greek (6 Credits)

This course serves as an introduction to the Basics of Biblical Greek.

THE 300: Masters Thesis (12 Credits)

This course will entail the completion of a comprehensive research paper covering a seminary approved topic.

​SPECIFIC DEGREE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS