2015 - 2016 Southern Seminary

ACADEMIC CATALOG

Table of Contents

About Southern...... 8 Abstract of Principles...... 8 The Baptist Faith and Message...... 9 Mission...... 14 Accreditation...... 14 Denominational Affiliation...... 15 Historical Sketch...... 15 Academic Programs...... 16

Admissions ...... 20 Admission Requirements by Degree Programs...... 20 Admissions Acceptance Categories ...... 24 Admission Deadlines...... 26

Financial Aid...... 27 Southern Seminary Scholarships and Grants...... 27 Other Assistance from Southern Seminary...... 28 Tuition Assistance from Other Sources...... 28

Campus Life...... 29 Student Life...... 29 Center for Student Success...... 29 The Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization...... 30 Campus Facilities...... 30 Housing...... 32 Employment ...... 32

Academic Information...... 34 Registration...... 34 Student Status...... 36 Grades...... 37 Policies...... 38 Fees and Charges...... 41

School of Theology...... 43 Faculty...... 43 Introduction...... 52 Policies for Master’s Level Programs...... 52 Master’s Level Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 52 Policies for Doctor of Ministry Programs...... 64 Doctor of Ministry Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 65 Policies for Research Doctoral Programs...... 66 Research Doctoral Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 67 Doctor of Philosophy Program...... 68

i Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry...... 70 Faculty...... 70 Introduction...... 76 Policies for Master’s Level Programs...... 76 Master’s Level Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 79 Policies for Doctor of Educational Ministry Programs...... 104 Doctor of Educational Ministry Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 105 Policies for Doctor of Ministry Programs...... 106 Doctor of Ministry Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 108 Policies for Research Doctoral Studies...... 110 Research Doctoral Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 110 Policies for Doctor of Missiology Program...... 110 Doctor of Missiology Program Descriptions and Requirements...... 111

Curriculum—Course Descriptions...... 116 Professional Studies...... 116 Doctoral Studies...... 116

Directory...... 156 Board of Trustees...... 156 Offices...... 157 Faculty...... 158 Academic Calendar...... 161 Campus Map...... 162

Index...... 165

The catalog is prepared by the office of Academic Administration. The information in this catalog applies to the academic year 2015-2016 only. Southern Seminary reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to review, modify, amend, alter, rescind, abolish, or delete any provision of this catalog or of any other catalogs, policies, publications, or statements of the seminary. This right includes, without limitation, admission or graduation standards, degree requirements, and accreditation of academic programs. This catalog is not a contract, real or implied; it is for informational purposes only. The most current version online is always operative.

ii Mission

Under the lordship of Jesus Christ, the mission of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is to be totally committed to the Bible as the Word of God, to the Great Commission as our mandate, and to be a servant of the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention by training, educating, and preparing ministers of the gospel for more faithful service.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Seminary Administration | page 1 heological education is serious business. The task of training, educating, and preparing ministers of the gospel is an incredible stewardship invested in Southern Seminary by the churches. Without apology, we serve the church of the Lord Jesus Christ Tand aim to fulfill this purpose so that generations to come will have an even more faithful and effective ministry. Only God can make a minister. That fundamental fact frames our responsibility; for humility necessitates our understanding that Southern Seminary does not make ministers. Nevertheless, God makes ministers through the crucible of learning, study, prayer, and experience. Southern Seminary combines all of these elements in a comprehensive program of theological education that combines unquestioned academic excellence with practical application. You should know that Southern Seminary is unfailingly serious about theological education that is genuinely theological. We are a confessional institution that stands without compromise upon the faith once for all delivered to the saints. The absolute truthfulness and authority of the Word of God are foundational to our programs of study, and you can be certain that theological faithfulness and doctrinal integrity are hallmarks of a Southern Seminary education. This institution is more than 150 years old. Over the past 15 decades, many fads and movements have come and gone; but the steady determination to educate ministers of the gospel remains our central focus. Southern Seminary stands as a servant institution to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our eyes are on the mission fields of the world and the frontlines of ministry all around the globe. Southern Seminary’s faculty is unparalleled in the evangelical world. Here you will find consecrated Christian scholars whose commitment to the gospel, to the church, and to the Lord Jesus Christ is translated into their love for students and the task of teaching. Our ambition is to shape the minister in every dimension—heart, soul, mind, and the application of all ministry in the spirit of Christ. To that end, we offer comprehensive academic degrees ranging from baccalaureate to doctoral programs. Standing at the center of every aspect of the curriculum is a steadfast commitment to biblical truth, to excellence in ministry, and to the honorable service to the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. The schools of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary share this common vision, this glorious task, and this priceless stewardship. Our institutional motto says it all—“For the truth, for the church, for the world, for the glory of God.” The glory of God is the beginning and end of all things, and ultimately our prayer is that God is glorified in all we do, in all we teach, and in all those who graduate from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. President

page 2 SOUTHERN | SEMINARYSeminary CATALOGAdministration | 2015-2016 Theology and has done research at Oxford University Office of the President (England). R. Albert Mohler, Jr. Dr. Mohler also serves as the Joseph Emerson Brown President of The Southern Baptist Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary. Theological Seminary; Joseph His writings have been published throughout the United Emerson Brown Professor of Christian States and Europe. In addition to contributing to a Theology (1993) number of collected volumes, he has authored of several books, including Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues B.A., Samford University; M.Div., with Timeless Truth (Multnomah), Desire & Deceit: The Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance (Multnomah), Theological Seminary Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists (Crossway), He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as president of The World (Moody), The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Southern Baptist Theological Seminary—the flagship Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness (Multnomah), school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the Conviction To Lead (Bethany House) and Words From the largest seminaries in the world. Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the Ten Commandments Dr. Mohler has been recognized as a leader among (Moody). From 1985 to 1993, he served as Associate American evangelicals by such influential publications as Editor of Preaching, a journal for evangelical preachers, Time and Christianity Today. In fact, Time.com called him and he is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Baptist the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in Journal of Theology. the U.S.” A leader within the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. In addition to his presidential duties, Dr. Mohler hosts Mohler has served in several offices including a term as two programs: The Briefing, a daily analysis of news Chairman of the SBC Committee on Resolutions, which and events from a Christian worldview, and Thinking in is responsible for the denomination’s official statements Public, a series of conversations with the today’s leading on moral and doctrinal issues. He also served on the thinkers. He also writes a popular blog and a regular seven-person Program and Structure Study Committee, commentary on moral, cultural and theological issues. All which recommended the 1995 restructuring of the of these can be accessed through Dr. Mohler’s website, nation’s largest Protestant denomination. In 2000, www.AlbertMohler.com. Called “an articulate voice Dr. Mohler served on a blue-ribbon panel that made for conservative Christianity at large” by The Chicago recommendations to the Southern Baptist Convention for Tribune, Dr. Mohler’s mission is to address contemporary revisions to the Baptist Faith and Message, the statement issues from a consistent and explicit Christian worldview. of faith most widely held among Southern Baptists. Most Widely sought as a columnist and commentator, recently, he served on the Great Commission Task Force, a Dr. Mohler has been quoted in the nation’s leading denominational committee that studied the effectiveness newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall of SBC efforts to fulfill the Great Commission. He currently Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The serves as chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Atlanta Journal/Constitution and The Dallas Morning Council of Seminary Presidents. News. He has also appeared on such national news Dr. Mohler has presented lectures or addresses at programs as CNN’s “Larry King Live,” NBC’s “Today institutions including Columbia University, the University Show” and “Dateline NBC,” ABC’s “Good Morning of Virginia, Wheaton College, Samford University, Trinity America,” “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, Evangelical Divinity School, the University of Richmond, MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” and Fox’s “The Mercer University, Cedarville University, Beeson Divinity O’Reilly Factor.” School, Reformed Theological Seminary, The Master’s Dr. Mohler is a theologian and an ordained minister, Seminary, Geneva College, Biola University, Covenant having served as pastor and staff minister of several Theological Seminary, The Cumberland School of Law, Southern Baptist churches. He came to the presidency The Regent University School of Law, Grove City College, of Southern Seminary in 1993 from service as editor Vanderbilt University, and the historic Chautauqua of The Christian Index, the oldest of the state papers Institution, among many others. serving the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Mohler is listed in Who’s Who in America and A native of Lakeland, Florida, Dr. Mohler was a Faculty other biographical reference works and has served on Scholar at Florida Atlantic University before receiving the boards of several organizations including Focus on his Bachelor of Arts degree from Samford University the Family. He is a member of the Council for Biblical in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds a Master of Divinity Manhood and Womanhood and serves as a council degree and the Doctor of Philosophy (in systematic and member for The Gospel Coalition. historical theology) from Southern Seminary. He has He is married to Mary, and they have two children, Katie pursued additional study at the St. Meinrad School of and Christopher.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Seminary Administration | page 3 Academic Administration Jeremy Pierre Dean of Students; Associate Professor Senior Vice President of Biblical Counseling (2011) Randy L. Stinson B.A., Cedarville University; M.A., Senior Vice President for Academic Cleveland State University; M.Div., Administration and Provost; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Professor of Leadership and Family Theological Seminary Ministry (2006)

B.A., University of South Florida; Dr. Pierre serves as Dean of Students and directs the M.Div., Southeastern Baptist Ph.D. program in Biblical Counseling. He joined the Theological Seminary; School of Theology faculty in 2011 after serving for eight Th.M., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist years on the faculty of Boyce College as a professor of Theological Seminary literature and culture. Dr. Pierre is co-author of the book Pastoral Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding Members Dr. Stinson is a recognized authority on the subject in Need (Crossway) and has contributed to various other of biblical manhood and womanhood and has books, including Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling served as a senior pastor as well as other church and Scripture and Counseling. He currently serves as a staff positions. He is the co-author ofField Guide for pastor at Clifton Baptist Church. He is a member of the Biblical Manhood and co-editor of Trained in the Fear Evangelical Theological Society and serves as a council of God: Family Ministry in Theological, Historical, member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He and his and Practical Perspective. In addition, Dr. Stinson wife Sarah raise their five children in Louisville, Kentucky. serves as the Senior Fellow for The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He and his wife, Danna, have been married since 1991 and have eight Gregory A. Wills children: Gunnar, Georgia, Fisher, Eden, Payton, Dean of the School of Theology; Brewer, Spencer, and Willa. Professor of Church History (1997); Director of the Center for the Study Deans of the Southern Baptist Convention Adam W. Greenway B.S., Duke University; M.Div., Dean of the Billy Graham School of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Missions, Evangelism ­and Ministry; Th.M., Duke University; Ph.D., William Walker Brookes Associate Emory University Professor of Evangelism and Applied Apologetics (2007) Dr. Wills has served as dean of the School of Theology since 2013 and as Professor of Church History since 1997. B.A., Samford University; M.Div., He was the Archives and Special Collections Librarian Southwestern Baptist Theological from 1994. He is author of Democratic Religion: Freedom, Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, Baptist Theological Seminary 1785-1900 and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009. Dr. Greenway has served as pastor and/or interim pastor of churches in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Florida. Active in denominational life and leadership, he is the Parliamentarian as well as a past President of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, and is a former trustee and Chairman of the Board of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Greenway is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the International Society of Christian Apologetics, and is a former President of the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. He is co-editor of Evangelicals Engaging Emergent and The Great Commission Resurgence, and has contributed articles to various books and journals.

page 4 SOUTHERN | SEMINARYSeminary CATALOGAdministration | 2015-2016 Vice President Joseph C. Harrod Associate Vice President for Matthew J. Hall Institutional Effectiveness Vice President for Academic Services A.A.S. ITT Technical Institute; B.A., Grove City College; M.Div., B.A., M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Th.M., The Southern Baptist Baptist Theological Seminary Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Dr. Harrod has directed Southern Seminary's assessment and accreditation since 2008. Prior to serving in this role, As Vice President of Academic Services, Dr. Hall he worked for twelve years in the Information Technology oversees the seminary’s initiatives in enrollment industry. A native of Louisville, he has been an interim management, student services, and institutional youth minister, Sunday school teacher, and deacon in research and assessment. Previously, he served as chief several churches in the city. Dr. Harrod teaches courses of staff in the Office of the President. He is co-editor in the area of biblical spirituality and is a Fellow of the of Essential Evangelicalism: The Enduring Influence of Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies and a member of Carl F. H. Henry. Dr. Hall is active in denominational life, the Evangelical Theological Society. He has been married having served on the SBC Resolutions Committee. He to Tracy for 14 years and they have three sons. serves as an elder at Clifton Baptist Church in Louisville, and is an active member of the American Society of Church History, the Conference on Faith and History, Michael S. Wilder and the Evangelical Theological Society. He and his wife, Associate Vice President for Doctoral Jeannie, have three children. Studies; J. M. Frost Associate Professor of Leadership and Associate Vice Presidents Discipleship (2006)

Timothy Paul Jones B.B.A., Clayton State College; M.Div., Associate Vice President for Global New Orleans Baptist Theological Campus; C. Edwin Gheens Professor Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist of Christian Family Ministry (2007); Theological Seminary Editor, The Journal of Discipleship and Family Ministry Dr. Wilder has more than 15 years of church-based B.A., Manhattan Christian College; ministry experience serving as a pastor in churches M.Div., Midwestern Baptist Theological in Georgia and Kentucky. He is the co-author of Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Transformission: Making Disciples through Short- Theological Seminary term Missions and has contributed to books such as Christian Formation: Integrating Theology and Human Dr. Jones oversees the Global Campus and teaches in Development; Perspectives on Your Child’s Education: the areas of family ministry and apologetics. Before Four Views; Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry coming to Southern, he led churches in Missouri and in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective; and Oklahoma as pastor and associate pastor. Dr. Jones Mapping Out Curriculum in Your Church. He is currently has received the Scholastic Recognition Award and has working on a new book entitled The God Who Goes authored or contributed to more than a dozen books, Before You: A Biblical Theology of Leadership. Dr. Wilder including Conspiracies and the Cross; Perspectives on has been married since 1994 and has three daughters. Family Ministry; and, Christian History Made Easy. In 2010, Christian Retailing magazine selected Christian History Made Easy as the book of the year in the field of Christian education. He is married to Rayann and they have three daughters. The Jones family serves in children’s ministry at Sojourn Community Church.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Seminary Administration | page 5 of advancement, sales and marketing, digital and Institutional Administration information technology, operations, human resources, fulfillment, finance and literature ministries. Mr. Dennis Senior Vice President and his wife of more than 20 years, Allison, are parents Dan S. Dumas to four children. Mr. Dennis has served in various church Senior Vice President for Institutional capacities, including as elder, worship leader and small Administration; Professor of group leader. Leadership and Church Ministry (2013); Executive Director, The Center Jason Heath for Christian Preaching Vice President for Campus Technology

B.A., Criswell College; M.Div., The B.S., Indiana University Southeast Master’s Seminary

Mr. Dumas became the Senior Vice President of Institutional Administration at Southern Seminary in October of 2007. At Grace Community Church in California he was an Executive Pastor for four years and pastor of the Cornerstone Fellowship Group for five years. Mr. Heath previously served as the Director of Also, Mr. Dumas has served as college and singles pastor Information Technology for the College of Business at at the Westside Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, the University of Louisville. His background was in the at Cottage Hill Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, and field of software engineering, working on contracts for at Victory Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Previously, various defense and intelligence agencies, as well as he served on staff at the historic First Baptist Church of business systems in both the private sector and higher Dallas. Dumas is a veteran of the United States Navy. education. He and his wife, Johanna, were members of the core group that started Sojourn Community Vice Presidents Church, and they were most recently part of launching the Sojourn campus in New Albany. Within Sojourn, Jeff Dalrymple Mr. Heath and his wife serve as deacons of Group Life Vice President for Hospitality as Community Group Coaches. They have a daughter, Services Beatrice, and a son, Simon.

B.A., The Master’s College R. Craig Parker Vice President for Institutional Advancement

B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.B.A., Mr. Dalrymple earned a degree in organizational Murray State University management and possesses a unique blend of professional and ministerial experience. Mr. Dalrymple is now an active member at Crossing Church and has been serving in leadership since 2013. He and his wife, Kristil, have been married for 12 years and have four Mr. Parker joined the Southern staff following many children: JJ, Kassie, Katherine, and Kylie. years of service in churches in the Memphis, Tennessee area. He served fifteen years as Church Administrator Geoffrey L. Dennis at Bellevue Baptist Church, and held similar positions at Vice President for Business and Germantown Baptist Church and Highpoint Church. Prior Strategy to his tenure in the local church, Mr. Parker worked in the insurance industry at Blue Cross Blue Shield in Memphis. B.S., National Lewis University; He has also served the SBC as a trustee of Guidestone M.A., Wheaton College Financial Resources.

Prior to arriving at Southern, Mr. Dennis worked for 23 years in various capacities at Crossway, a leading evangelical publisher based in Wheaton, Ill. He served most recently as executive vice president, chief operating officer and associate publisher with oversight page 6 SOUTHERN | SEMINARYSeminary CATALOGAdministration | 2015-2016 D. Andrew Vincent Vice President for Operations

B.A., Samford University; M.B.A., University of Louisville

Mr. Vincent began his tenure with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1991. He became Vice President for Operations in 2009, a position making him responsible for the strategic oversight of auxiliary business units and facilities management. His prior positions with Southern Seminary have included Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Enterprises, Director of Auxiliary Enterprises, Director/Manager of Administrative Support Services, and Duplicating Machine Operator. Prior to serving at Southern Seminary, Mr. Vincent served as Assistant Warehouse Manager at EVCO, Inc., in Birmingham, Alabama.

Stephen O. Watters Vice President for Communications

B.A., Lee University; M.A., Regent University; M.A. (in progress), The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

From 1997–2010, Mr. Watters served at Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs, Colorado, based ministry founded by James Dobson, as a policy analyst, a project manager and then director of marriage and family formation. He and his wife, Candice, created Boundless (www.boundless.org) as a Web outreach to young adults for Focus on the Family.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Seminary Administration | page 7 About Southern

Statement of Beliefs • Mission • Accreditation • Denominational Affiliation • Historical Sketch • Academic Programs “Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is the divinely appointed mediator between God and man.”

from sin; but, through the temptation of Satan, he Abstract of Principles transgressed the command of God, and fell from his When the original charter of The Southern Baptist original holiness and righteousness; whereby his posterity Theological Seminary was adopted in 1858, it contained inherit a nature corrupt and wholly opposed to God and the following statement which continues as a part of the His law, are under condemnation, and as soon as they are “fundamental laws.” capable of moral action, become actual transgressors. Every professor of the institution shall be a member of a regular Baptist church; and all persons accepting VII. The Mediator professorships in this seminary shall be considered, by Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is the divinely such acceptance, as engaging to teach in accordance appointed mediator between God and man. Having taken with, and not contrary to, the Abstract of Principles upon Himself human nature, yet without sin, He perfectly hereinafter laid down, a departure from which principles fulfilled the law; suffered and died upon the cross for on his part shall be considered grounds for his resignation the salvation of sinners. He was buried, and rose again or removal by the Trustees, to wit: the third day, and ascended to His Father, at whose right hand He ever liveth to make intercession for His people. I. The Scriptures He is the only Mediator, the Prophet, Priest and King of the Church, and Sovereign of the Universe. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and are the only sufficient, certain and authoritative rule of all saving knowledge, faith and VIII. Regeneration obedience. Regeneration is a change of heart, wrought by the Holy Spirit, who quickeneth the dead in trespasses and II. God sins enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the Word of God, and renewing their whole There is but one God, the Maker, Preserver and Ruler of nature, so that they love and practice holiness. It is a work all things, having in and of Himself, all perfections, and of God’s free and special grace alone. being infinite in them all; and to Him all creatures owe the highest love, reverence and obedience. IX. Repentance III. The Trinity Repentance is an evangelical grace, wherein a person being by the Holy Spirit, made sensible of the manifold God is revealed to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit each evil of his sin, humbleth himself for it, with godly sorrow, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of detestation of it, and self-abhorrence, with a purpose and nature, essence or being. endeavor to walk before God so as to please Him in all things. IV. Providence God from eternity, decrees or permits all things that come to pass, and perpetually upholds, directs and governs all X. Faith Saving faith is the belief, on God’s authority, of creatures and all events; yet so as not in any wise to be whatsoever is revealed in His Word concerning Christ; the author or approver of sin nor to destroy the free will accepting and resting upon Him alone for justification and and responsibility of intelligent creatures. eternal life. It is wrought in the heart by the Holy Spirit, and is accompanied by all other saving graces, and leads V. Election to a life of holiness. Election is God’s eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting life—not because of foreseen merit in them, but of His mere mercy in Christ—in consequence of which XI. Justification Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal of sinners, choice they are called, justified and glorified. who believe in Christ, from all sin, through the satisfaction that Christ has made; not for anything wrought in them VI. The Fall of Man or done by them; but on account of the obedience and God originally created Man in His own image, and free satisfaction of Christ, they receiving and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith. page 8 SOUTHERN | SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | 2015-2016 XII. Sanctification XVIII. Liberty of Conscience Those who have been regenerated are also sanctified by God alone is Lord of the conscience; and He hath left God’s word and Spirit dwelling in them. This sanctification it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, is progressive through the supply of Divine strength, which are in anything contrary to His word, or not which all saints seek to obtain, pressing after a heavenly contained in it. Civil magistrates being ordained of God, life in cordial obedience to all Christ’s commands. subjection in all lawful things commanded by them ought to be yielded by us in the Lord, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. XIII. Perseverance of the Saints Those whom God hath accepted in the Beloved, and sanctified by His Spirit, will never totally nor finally fall XIX. The Resurrection away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere The bodies of men after death return to dust, but their to the end; and though they may fall through neglect spirits return immediately to God—the righteous to rest and temptation, into sin, whereby they grieve the Spirit, with Him; the wicked, to be reserved under darkness to impair their graces and comforts, bring reproach on the the judgment. At the last day, the bodies of all the dead, Church, and temporal judgments on themselves, yet they both just and unjust, will be raised. shall be renewed again unto repentance, and be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. XX. The Judgment God hath appointed a day, wherein He will judge the XIV. The Church world by Jesus Christ, when every one shall receive The Lord Jesus is the head of the Church, which is according to his deeds; the wicked shall go into composed of all His true disciples, and in Him is invested everlasting punishment; the righteous, into supremely all power for its government. According to His everlasting life. commandment, Christians are to associate themselves into particular societies or churches; and to each of The Baptist Faith and Message these churches He hath given needful authority for administering that order, discipline and worship which Report of the Baptist Faith and Message Study He hath appointed. The regular officers of a Church are Committee to the Southern Baptist Convention Bishops or Elders, and Deacons. June 14, 2000

The 1999 session of the Southern Baptist Convention, XV. Baptism meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, adopted the following Baptism is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus, obligatory motion addressed to the President of the Convention: upon every believer, wherein he is immersed in water “I move that in your capacity as Southern Baptist in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Convention chairman, you appoint a blue ribbon Spirit, as a sign of his fellowship with the death and committee to review the Baptist Faith and Message resurrection of Christ, of remission of sins, and of giving statement with the responsibility to report and bring any himself up to God, to live and walk in newness of life. It is recommendations to this meeting next June in Orlando.” prerequisite to church fellowship, and to participation in President Paige Patterson appointed the committee the Lord’s Supper. as follows: Max Barnett (OK), Steve Gaines (AL), Susie Hawkins (TX), Rudy A. Hernandez (TX), Charles S. Kelley, XVI. The Lord’s Supper Jr. (LA), Heather King (IN), Richard D. Land (TN), Fred The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of Jesus Christ, to be Luter (LA), R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (KY), T. C. Pinckney (VA), administered with the elements of bread and wine, and to Nelson Price (GA), Adrian Rogers (TN), Roger Spradlin be observed by His churches till the end of the world. It is (CA), Simon Tsoi (AZ), Jerry Vines (FL). Adrian Rogers in no sense a sacrifice, but is designed to commemorate (TN) was appointed chairman. His death, to confirm the faith and other graces of Your committee thus constituted begs leave to present Christians, and to be a bond, pledge and renewal of their its report as follows: communion with Him, and of their church fellowship. Baptists are a people of deep beliefs and cherished doctrines. Throughout our history we have been XVII. The Lord’s Day a confessional people, adopting statements of The Lord’s Day is a Christian institution for regular faith as a witness to our beliefs and a pledge of observance, and should be employed in exercises of our faithfulness to the doctrines revealed in Holy worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private, Scripture. resting from worldly employments and amusements, works of necessity and mercy only excepted. Our confessions of faith are rooted in historical precedent, as the church in every age has been called upon to define and defend its beliefs. Each generation of Christians bears the responsibility

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 9 of guarding the treasury of truth that has been 5) That they are statements of religious convictions, entrusted to us [II Timothy 1:14]. Facing a new drawn from the Scriptures, and are not to century, Southern Baptists must meet the demands be used to hamper freedom of thought or and duties of the present hour. investigation in other realms of life.

New challenges to faith appear in every age. A Baptists cherish and defend religious liberty, and pervasive anti-supernaturalism in the culture was deny the right of any secular or religious authority to answered by Southern Baptists in 1925, when the impose a confession of faith upon a church or body of Baptist Faith and Message was first adopted by this churches. We honor the principles of soul competency Convention. In 1963, Southern Baptists responded and the priesthood of believers, affirming together both to assaults upon the authority and truthfulness of our liberty in Christ and our accountability to each other the Bible by adopting revisions to the Baptist Faith under the Word of God. and Message. The Convention added an article Baptist churches, associations, and general bodies have on “The Family” in 1998, thus answering cultural adopted confessions of faith as a witness to the world, confusion with the clear teachings of Scripture. and as instruments of doctrinal accountability. We are Now, faced with a culture hostile to the very notion not embarrassed to state before the world that these are of truth, this generation of Baptists must claim doctrines we hold precious and as essential to the Baptist anew the eternal truths of the Christian faith. tradition of faith and practice. As a committee, we have been charged to address Your committee respects and celebrates the the “certain needs” of our own generation. In an age heritage of the Baptist Faith and Message, and increasingly hostile to Christian truth, our challenge is to affirms the decision of the Convention in 1925 to express the truth as revealed in Scripture, and to bear adopt the New Hampshire Confession of Faith, witness to Jesus Christ, who is “the Way, the Truth, and “revised at certain points and with some additional the Life.” articles growing out of certain needs . . . .” We also The 1963 committee rightly sought to identify and respect the important contributions of the 1925 and affirm “certain definite doctrines that Baptists believe, 1963 editions of the Baptist Faith and Message. cherish, and with which they have been and are now closely identified.” Our living faith is established upon With the 1963 committee, we have been guided in eternal truths. “Thus this generation of Southern Baptists our work by the 1925 “statement of the historic Baptist is in historic succession of intent and purpose as it conception of the nature and function of confessions of endeavors to state for its time and theological climate faith in our religious and denominational life . . . .” It is, those articles of the Christian faith which are most surely therefore, quoted in full as a part of this report to the held among us.” Convention: It is the purpose of this statement of faith and message to set forth certain teachings which we believe. 1) That they constitute a consensus of opinion of some Baptist body, large or small, for the general I. The Scriptures instruction and guidance of our own people and The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired others concerning those articles of the Christian and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect faith which are most surely held among us. They treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, are not intended to add anything to the simple salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of conditions of salvation revealed in the New error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true Testament, viz., repentance toward God and faith and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God in Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the 2) That we do not regard them as complete supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, statements of our faith, having any quality of and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a finality or infallibility. As in the past so in the testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine future, Baptists should hold themselves free to revelation. Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19; Joshua 8:34; Psalms 19:7-10; 119:11, revise their statements of faith as may seem to 89,105,140; Isaiah 34:16; 40:8; Jeremiah 15:16; 36:1-32; Matthew 5:17-18; 22:29; them wise and expedient at any time. Luke 21:33; 24:44-46; John 5:39; 16:13-15; 17:17; Acts 2:16ff.; 17:11; Romans 15:4; 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21. 3) That any group of Baptists, large or small, have II. God the inherent right to draw up for themselves and There is one and only one living and true God. He is an publish to the world a confession of their faith intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, whenever they may think it advisable to do so. Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all 4) That the sole authority for faith and practice powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge among Baptists is the Scriptures of the Old and extends to all things, past, present, and future, including New Testaments. Confessions are only guides the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe in interpretation, having no authority over the the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal conscience. page 10 | About Southern SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and 4:31; 5:3; 6:3; 7:55; 8:17,39; 10:44; 13:2; 15:28; 16:6; 19:1-6; Romans 8:9-11,14- 16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 1:13- Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without 14; 4:30; 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:19; 1 Timothy 3:16; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:14; 3:16; division of nature, essence, or being. Hebrews 9:8,14; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17. A. God the Father III. Man God as Father reigns with providential care over His Man is the special creation of God, made in His own universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of image. He created them male and female as the crowning human history according to the purposes of His grace. He work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God the goodness of God’s creation. In the beginning man is Father in truth to those who become children of God was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against toward all men. God and brought sin into the human race. Through the Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:2-3; 15:11ff.; 20:lff.; Leviticus 22:2; temptation of Satan man transgressed the command Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Psalm 19:1-3; Isaiah 43:3,15; 64:8; of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his Jeremiah 10:10; 17:13; Matthew 6:9ff.; 7:11; 23:9; 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 17:1-8; Acts 1:7; Romans 8:14-15; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:6; posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined Ephesians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6; 12:9; 1 Peter 1:17; toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of 1 John 5:7. moral action, they become transgressors and are under B. God the Son condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and evident in that God created man in His own image, and in did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored Christian love. the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His Genesis 1:26-30; 2:5,7,18-22; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for 5:6,12,19; 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18,29; 1 Corinthians 1:21-31; 15:19,21-22; Ephesians the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22; 3:9-11. dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples IV. Salvation as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest between God and man. He will return in power and glory sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. ever present Lord. Genesis 18:1ff.; Psalms 2:7ff.; 110:1ff.; Isaiah 7:14; 53; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16,27; 17:5; 27; 28:1-6,19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; A. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God’s 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18,29; 10:30,38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; 14:7-11; 16:15-16,28; grace whereby believers become new creatures 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20,28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5,20; Romans 1:3-4; 3:23- 26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3,34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8,24-28; 2 Corinthians in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought 5:19-21; 8:9; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11; by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to Colossians 1:13-22; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; Titus 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; 9:12-15,24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 2:21- which the sinner responds in repentance toward 25; 3:22; 1 John 1:7-9; 3:2; 4:14-15; 5:9; 2 John 7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 5:9-14; God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16. and faith are inseparable experiences of grace. C. God the Holy Spirit Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through commitment of the entire personality to Him as illumination He enables men to understand truth. He Lord and Saviour. exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Saviour, and B. Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He who repent and believe in Christ. Justification brings cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God with God. through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the C. Sanctification is the experience, beginning in guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers God’s purposes, and is enabled to progress toward the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and moral and spiritual maturity through the presence service. and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth Genesis 1:2; Judges 14:6; Job 26:13; Psalms 51:11; 139:7ff.; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel in grace should continue throughout the regenerate 2:28-32; Matthew 1:18; 3:16; 4:1; 12:28-32; 28:19; Mark 1:10,12; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18- 19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; John 4:24; 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; 2:1-4,38; person’s life.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 11 D. Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is ordinance, it is prerequisite to the privileges of church the final blessed and abiding state of the membershipredeemed. and to the Lord’s Supper. Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 16:21-26; 27:22-28:6; The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience Luke 1:68-69; 2:28-32; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 15:1-16; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31; 17:30-31; 20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 2:4; whereby members of the church, through partaking of 3:23-25; 4:3ff.; 5:8-10; 6:1-23; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; 13:11-14; 1 Corinthians the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death 1:18,30; 6:19-20; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17-20; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:22-25; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 4:11-16; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-22; 3:1ff.; 1 of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming. Thessalonians 5:23-24; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 2:1-3; 5:8-9; 9:24- Matthew 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Mark 1:9-11; 14:22-26; Luke 3:21-22; 28; 11:1-12:8,14; James 2:14-26; 1 Peter 1:2-23; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 22:19-20; John 3:23; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; 20:7; Romans 6:3-5; 1 21:1-22:5. Corinthians 10:16,21; 11:23-29; Colossians 2:12. V. God’s Purpose of Grace VIII. The Lord’s Day Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to The first day of the week is the Lord’s Day. It is a Christian which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies institution for regular observance. It commemorates the sinners. It is consistent with the free agency of man, and resurrection of Christ from the dead and should include comprehends all the means in connection with the end. exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public It is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and private. Activities on the Lord’s Day should be and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. It excludes commensurate with the Christian’s conscience under the boasting and promotes humility. Lordship of Jesus Christ. All true believers endure to the end. Those whom Exodus 20:8-11; Matthew 12:1-12; 28:1ff.; Mark 2:27-28; 16:1-7; Luke 24:1-3,33- 36; John 4:21-24; 20:1,19-28; Acts 20:7; Romans 14:5-10; I Corinthians 16:1-2; God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit, Colossians 2:16; 3:16; Revelation 1:10. will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end. Believers may fall into sin through IX. The Kingdom neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, The Kingdom of God includes both His general impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into through faith unto salvation. which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Genesis 12:1-3; Exodus 19:5-8; 1 Samuel 8:4-7,19-22; Isaiah 5:1-7; Jeremiah Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that 31:31ff.; Matthew 16:18-19; 21:28-45; 24:22,31; 25:34; Luke 1:68-79; 2:29- the Kingdom may come and God’s will be done on earth. 32; 19:41-44; 24:44-48; John 1:12-14; 3:16; 5:24; 6:44-45,65; 10:27-29; 15:16; 17:6, 12, 17-18; Acts 20:32; Romans 5:9-10; 8:28-39; 10:12-15; 11:5-7,26-36; 1 The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return Corinthians 1:1-2; 15:24-28; Ephesians 1:4-23; 2:1-10; 3:1-11; Colossians 1:12-14; 2 of Jesus Christ and the end of this age. Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2 Timothy 1:12; 2:10,19; Hebrews 11:39-12:2; James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:2-5,13; 2:4-10; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:19; 3:2. Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 9:6-7; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Matthew 3:2; 4:8-10,23; 12:25-28; 13:1-52; 25:31-46; 26:29; Mark 1:14-15; 9:1; Luke 4:43; 8:1; 9:2; 12:31-32; 17:20-21; 23:42; John 3:3; 18:36; Acts 1:6-7; 17:22-31; Romans 5:17; 8:19; 1 Corinthians VI. The Church 15:24-28; Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 11:10,16; 12:28; 1 Peter 2:4-10; 4:13; A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an Revelation 1:6,9; 5:10; 11:15; 21-22. autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, X. Last Things associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. processes. In such a congregation each member is The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both the Lord. men and women are gifted for service in the church, the Isaiah 2:4; 11:9; Matthew 16:27; 18:8-9; 19:28; 24:27,30,36,44; 25:31-46; 26:64; office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. Mark 8:38; 9:43-48; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19-26; 17:22-37; 21:27-28; John 14:1-3; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15:24-28,35-58; 2 Corinthians The New Testament speaks also of the church as the 5:10; Philippians 3:20-21; Colossians 1:5; 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 5:1ff.; body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all 2 Thessalonians 1:7ff.; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1,8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:27-28; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7ff.; 1 John 2:28; 3:2; Jude 14; Revelation 1:18; 3:11; the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and 20:1-22:13. people, and nation. Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; XI. Evangelism and Missions 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and 1 Timothy 2:9-14; 3:1-15; 4:14; Hebrews 11:39-40; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3; of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to 21:2-3. make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man’s spirit VII. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer’s death to The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded the preaching of sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk the gospel to all nations. It is the duty of every child of in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his God to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other page 12 | About Southern SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ. justified, and when such cooperation involves no violation Genesis 12:1-3; Exodus 19:5-6; Isaiah 6:1-8; Matthew 9:37-38; 10:5-15; 13:18- of conscience or compromise of loyalty to Christ and His 30, 37-43; 16:19; 22:9-10; 24:14; 28:18-20; Luke 10:1-18; 24:46-53; John 14:11-12; 15:7-8,16; 17:15; 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2; 8:26-40; 10:42-48; 13:2-3; Romans 10:13-15; Word as revealed in the New Testament. Ephesians 3:1-11; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Timothy 4:5; Hebrews 2:1-3; 11:39-12:2; 1 Exodus 17:12; 18:17ff.; Judges 7:21; Ezra 1:3-4; 2:68-69; 5:14-15; Nehemiah Peter 2:4-10; Revelation 22:17. 4; 8:1-5; Matthew 10:5-15; 20:1-16; 22:1-10; 28:19-20; Mark 2:3; Luke 10:1ff.; Acts 1:13-14; 2:1ff.; 4:31-37; 13:2-3; 15:1-35; 1 Corinthians 1:10-17; 3:5-15; 12; 2 XII. Education Corinthians 8-9; Galatians 1:6-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Philippians 1:15-18. Christianity is the faith of enlightenment and XV. The Christian and the intelligence. In Jesus Christ abide all the treasures of Social Order wisdom and knowledge. All sound learning is, therefore, All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the a part of our Christian heritage. The new birth opens will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human all human faculties and creates a thirst for knowledge. society. Means and methods used for the improvement Moreover, the cause of education in the Kingdom of of society and the establishment of righteousness among Christ is coordinate with the causes of missions and men can be truly and permanently helpful only when they general benevolence, and should receive along with are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the these the liberal support of the churches. An adequate saving grace of God in Jesus Christ. In the spirit of Christ, system of Christian education is necessary to a complete Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, spiritual program for Christ’s people. selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, In Christian education there should be a proper balance including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. between academic freedom and academic responsibility. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, Freedom in any orderly relationship of human life is the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick. We always limited and never absolute. The freedom of a should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for teacher in a Christian school, college, or seminary is the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural limited by the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, by the death. Every Christian should seek to bring industry, authoritative nature of the Scriptures, and by the distinct government, and society as a whole under the sway purpose for which the school exists. of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly Deuteronomy 4:1,5,9,14; 6:1-10; 31:12-13; Nehemiah 8:1-8; Job 28:28; Psalms 19:7ff.; 119:11; Proverbs 3:13ff.; 4:1-10; 8:1-7,11; 15:14; Ecclesiastes 7:19; Matthew love. In order to promote these ends Christians should 5:2; 7:24ff.; 28:19-20; Luke 2:40; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; Ephesians 4:11-16; be ready to work with all men of good will in any good Philippians 4:8; Colossians 2:3,8-9; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:14-17; Hebrews 5:12-6:3; James 1:5; 3:17. cause, always being careful to act in the spirit of love without compromising their loyalty to Christ and XIII. Stewardship His truth. God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; Exodus 20:3-17; Leviticus 6:2-5; Deuteronomy 10:12; 27:17; Psalm 101:5; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a Micah 6:8; Zechariah 8:16; Matthew 5:13-16,43-48; 22:36-40; 25:35; Mark 1:29-34; 2:3ff.; 10:21; Luke 4:18-21; 10:27-37; 20:25; John 15:12; 17:15; Romans 12-14; 1 spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship Corinthians 5:9-10; 6:1-7; 7:20-24; 10:23-11:1; Galatians 3:26-28; Ephesians 6:5-9; in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their Colossians 3:12-17; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; Philemon; James 1:27; 2:8. possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve XVI. Peace and War Him with their time, talents, and material possessions; It is the duty of Christians to seek peace with all men on and should recognize all these as entrusted to them principles of righteousness. In accordance with the spirit to use for the glory of God and for helping others. and teachings of Christ they should do all in their power According to the Scriptures, Christians should contribute to put an end to war. of their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, The true remedy for the war spirit is the gospel of our proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Lord. The supreme need of the world is the acceptance of Redeemer’s cause on earth. His teachings in all the affairs of men and nations, and the Genesis 14:20; Leviticus 27:30-32; Deuteronomy 8:18; Malachi 3:8-12; Matthew 6:1-4,19-21; 19:21; 23:23; 25:14-29; Luke 12:16-21,42; 16:1-13; Acts 2:44-47; practical application of His law of love. Christian people 5:1-11; 17:24-25; 20:35; Romans 6:6-22; 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 4:1-2; 6:19-20; 12; throughout the world should pray for the reign of the 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 8-9; 12:15; Philippians 4:10-19; 1 Peter 1:18-19. Prince of Peace. Isaiah 2:4; Matthew 5:9,38-48; 6:33; 26:52; Luke 22:36,38; Romans 12:18-19; XIV. Cooperation 13:1-7; 14:19; Hebrews 12:14; James 4:1-2. Christ’s people should, as occasion requires, organize such associations and conventions as may best secure XVII. Religious Liberty cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God alone is Lord of the conscience, and He has left God. Such organizations have no authority over one it free from the doctrines and commandments of men another or over the churches. They are voluntary and which are contrary to His Word or not contained in it. advisory bodies designed to elicit, combine, and direct Church and state should be separate. The state owes to the energies of our people in the most effective manner. every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit Members of New Testament churches should cooperate of its spiritual ends. In providing for such freedom no with one another in carrying forward the missionary, ecclesiastical group or denomination should be favored educational, and benevolent ministries for the extension by the state more than others. Civil government being of Christ’s Kingdom. Christian unity in the New Testament ordained of God, it is the duty of Christians to render sense is spiritual harmony and voluntary cooperation loyal obedience thereto in all things not contrary to the for common ends by various groups of Christ’s people. revealed will of God. The church should not resort to Cooperation is desirable between the various Christian the civil power to carry on its work. The gospel of Christ denominations, when the end to be attained is itself contemplates spiritual means alone for the pursuit of

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 13 its ends. The state has no right to impose penalties for the development of Christian leaders, including lay religious opinions of any kind. The state has no right to leaders, for the various ministries of the churches and impose taxes for the support of any form of religion. A the denomination. The programs of the seminary focus free church in a free state is the Christian ideal, and this on the development of ministerial competencies at the implies the right of free and unhindered access to God on pre-baccalaureate, baccalaureate, professional post- the part of all men, and the right to form and propagate baccalaureate, professional doctoral, and research opinions in the sphere of religion without interference by doctoral levels. The seminary also provides services to the civil power. persons, churches, and denominational entities through Genesis 1:27; 2:7; Matthew 6:6-7, 24; 16:26; 22:21; John 8:36; Acts 4:19-20; its programs of continuing education for ministry. Romans 6:1-2; 13:1-7; Galatians 5:1,13; Philippians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:1-2; James 4:12; 1 Peter 2:12-17; 3:11-17; 4:12-19. The seminary does not discriminate because of race, color, ethnic or national origin, political orientation, XVIII. The Family handicap, age, or gender in its educational and God has ordained the family as the foundational administrative programs. institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in Accreditation The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a private covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique not-for-profit institution accredited by the Southern gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church Association of Colleges and Schools Comission on Col- and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage leges, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 3033-4097, the framework for intimate companionship, the channel telephone: 404-679-4500, at www.sacscoc.org, to award of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees the means for procreation of the human race. (Level V). The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is since both are created in God’s image. The marriage also accredited by the Commission on Accrediting relationship models the way God relates to His people. of the Association of Theological Schools in the A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. United States and Canada, and the following degree He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to programs are approved: protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself Doctor of Educational Ministries (DEdMin), Doctor graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even of Ministry (DMin), Doctor of Missiology (DMiss), as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. Doctor of Education (EdD), Doctor of Philosophy She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus (PhD), MA (Islamic Studies), MA (Theological Studies), equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect MA in Biblical Counseling, MA in Christian Education, her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the MA in Church Ministries, MA in Discipleship and Family household and nurturing the next generation. Ministry, MA in Leadership, MA in Missiology, MA in Children, from the moment of conception, are a Worship Leadership, MA in Youth and Family Ministry, blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to Master of Church Music (MCM), Master of Divinity demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. (MDiv), Master of Theology (ThM). Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral The seminary is approved to offer a portion of values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle approved degrees at the following centers: example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and • Auburn, AL: • Boston, MA: obey their parents. Lakeview Baptist Church New England Baptist Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; 3:1-20; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 24:15; 1 Samuel 1:26-28; Psalms 51:5; 78:1-8; 127; 128; 139:13-16; Proverbs 1:8; 1600 E. Glenn Avenue Convention Building 5:15-20; 6:20-22; 12:4; 13:24; 14:1; 17:6; 18:22; 22:6,15; 23:13-14; 24:3; 29:15,17; Auburn, AL 36830 87 Lincoln Street 31:10-31; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 9:9; Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 5:31-32; 18:2-5; 19:3- 9; Mark 10:6-12; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Northborough, MA 01532 Colossians 3:18-21; 1 Timothy 5:8,14; 2 Timothy 1:3-5; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; • East TN (Knoxville): 1 Peter 3:1-7. First Baptist Church • Columbia, MD: 2085 Simpson Road East Baptist Mission Mission Lenoir City, TN 37772 Resource Center Under the lordship of Jesus Christ, the mission of The 10255 Old Columbia Rd. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is to be totally • Jackson, TN: Columbia, MD 21046 committed to the Bible as the Word of God, to the Great Union University Commission as our mandate, and to be a servant of the 1050 Union University Dr. • Greenville, SC: churches of the Southern Baptist Convention by training, Jackson, TN 38305 The Church at Cherrydale educating, and preparing ministers of the gospel for 401 State Park Road more faithful service. • New York, NY: Greenville, SC 29609 The seminary utilizes evangelical scholarship with Metropolitan New York reverent dependence upon the guidance of the Holy Baptist Assoc. Office • Nashville, TN: Building 6550 Carothers Pkwy Spirit who witnesses to the truth of the Holy Scriptures. 3rd Floor 1st Floor The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, under 236 W. 72nd Street Franklin, TN 37067 the governance of its Board of Trustees, conducts its New York, NY 10023 programs in an environment of spiritual nurture for page 14 | About Southern SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 • Northwest Arkansas: • Washington, DC: offering classes on October Cross Church Capitol Hill Baptist Church 3, 1859, in a borrowed 1709 Johnson Road 525 A Street, NE building with 26 students Springdale, AR 72762 Washington, DC 20002 and 4 professors — Boyce, John A. Broadus, Basil Contact information for the Commission: Manly, Jr., and William 10 Summit Park Drive Williams. The early Pittsburgh, PA 15275 USA faculty brought untiring Telephone: 412-788-6505 commitment and sterling Fax: 412-788-6510 academic credentials to Website: www.ats.edu their duties. They held degrees from schools The seminary is also an accredited institutional member such as Princeton, Brown, of the National Association of Schools of Music, 11250 Harvard, and the University Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21, Reston, Virginia, 20190- James P. Boyce of Virginia. 5248, telephone: 703-437-0700, at: The best efforts of Boyce and his faculty, however, could nasm.arts-accredit.org. not shield the school from the ravaging effects of the Civil The seminary is licensed by the Kentucky Council War. The war’s turmoil prompted the school to suspend on Postsecondary Education (1024 Capital Center Dr., operations in 1862. Frankfort, Kentucky, 40601, telephone: 502-573-1555) At the war’s end, the seminary had no guarantee that it The Seminary has received a Letter of Exemption could resume classes. The school’s faculty and students from Certification issued by the Arkansas Department were scattered and what remained of its endowment was of Higher Education to offer non-academic or church- in worthless Confederate bonds. The economy of the related courses and grant non-academic awards or South was in ruins, and likewise, Southern Baptist churches church-related degrees. were suffering tremendous financial distress. Thus the school faced a more daunting challenge than at its founding. Amid these circumstances, the faculty gathered Denominational Affiliation to determine the school’s future. In that meeting, Broadus, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is an agency who would become the seminary’s second president, of the Southern Baptist Convention. In addition to uttered his now famous words: “Let us quietly agree that providing substantial financial support to the seminary, the seminary may die; but that we will die first.” the Convention also elects its Board of Trustees. In order for the school to regain its financial footing, trustees and faculty realized the seminary must find a Historical Sketch new location outside the war-torn economy of the Deep Enrolling more than 4,000 students annually, The South. While several cities vied for the honor of hosting Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ranks as one of the fledgling Baptist institution, the clear choice was the the largest seminaries in the world. Students come from bustling river city of Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to a nearly every state and dozens of countries to experience vibrant economy, the city’s strong Baptist churches and Southern’s diverse curricular offerings, practical ministerial civic leadership had promised financial support and other preparation, and premier academic environment. assistance. Louisvillians who promised and later delivered Southern Seminary has been an innovator in theological substantial aid to the seminary included two brothers, education since its founding in 1859 in Greenville, South George and W. F. Norton. Carolina. The school’s pioneering legacy began in the In 1877 the seminary made the move to Louisville and visionary mind of James P. Boyce, the school’s first began offering classes in rented space in the city’s public president. Boyce dreamed of a school that would accept library building. Three years later the seminary gained its all God-called individuals for study regardless of their first measure of financial security with a large gift from educational background. At the same time, Boyce also Joseph Emerson Brown, a former governor of Georgia. envisioned a seminary that would offer students the Due to the generosity of John D. Rockefeller and other highest degree of academic preparation. New York Baptists, the seminary in 1888 constructed Boyce’s idea of open enrollment was a virtual revolution its own building at the corner of Fifth and Broadway in in theological education. Other seminaries of that day downtown Louisville. would accept only college graduates who were trained in By the mid-1890’s, the original founding faculty had the classics. Yet Boyce knew that the leadership needs of died. Their dream for superb theological education, Southern Baptist churches were so great that such pre- however, continued to live at Southern Seminary. seminary training could not be required of all students in Southern became one of the first seminaries in the the new school. On the other hand, he realized that the nation to offer the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Southern Baptist Convention needed an institution 1894. Near the turn of the century, Southern became that challenged and nurtured the brightest minds of the first American institution to establish a department the denomination. of comparative religions and missions. In 1906 Southern Boyce’s bold initiative took root in humble inaugurated the nation’s first seminary program of circumstances. Southern Baptists’ first seminary began study in religious education. This program later became

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 15 a school of the seminary and is now part of the Billy ministry. As the Southern Baptist Convention has Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry grown in both size and areas of ministry, new needs formed in August 2013. in ministerial education have arisen. The seminary Southern moved to its current campus on Lexington has responded to these needs by reworking existing Road, five miles east of downtown Louisville, in 1926. academic programs and creating new degrees and From this picturesque setting, Southern has continued opportunities for curricular specialization. its ground-breaking educational legacy. The seminary The seminary currently has three schools: launched a School of Church Music in 1944 that has • School of Theology grown to be one of the largest and most prestigious • Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism schools of its kind. In keeping with the vision of Boyce, and Ministry the seminary founded Boyce Bible School in 1974, • Boyce College which is a division of the seminary exclusively designed Boyce College offers an associate degree and to provide ministerial training for people without two baccalaureate degrees. The other schools of college degrees. In 1998, this undergraduate school the seminary offer diploma programs, for which an of the seminary was transformed and began offering undergraduate degree is not an entrance requirement, fully accredited bachelor degrees. The Billy Graham and several degree programs. The degree programs School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth was are divided into two categories: master’s (professional) inaugurated in 1994. It is the only school world-renowned level programs entered on the basis of a bachelor’s evangelist Billy Graham ever allowed to carry his name. degree, and doctoral (professional and research) Now combined with the Church Ministries program, level programs entered on the basis of a seminary the Billy Graham School provides a platform for Great professional degree. Commission studies. In recent years, evidence that the seminary was fulfilling the founding president’s desire for excellence Associate and was furnished through a study by the American Council Baccalaureate Programs of Learned Societies. That study ranked Southern Boyce College is the undergraduate school of Southern Seminary with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Chicago as Seminary. Students may earn the Associate of Arts one of the sixteen outstanding graduate programs in (60 credit hours), Bachelor of Science (129-133 credit religion in the nation. hours), or Bachelor of Arts (129-132 credit hours) The seminary’s history has not been without controversy. degrees. Two distinguished professors of the nineteenth century, The college’s main campus is located in Mullins Hall on Crawford Toy and William Whitsitt (who was also the the seminary campus. seminary’s president), were forced to resign for presenting The college offers the following programs: concepts considered too radical for their times. The • Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and fundamentalist-modernist controversies that produced strife in many denominations and institutions in the early Theological Studies This program is designed for students who want a twentieth century have not ceased to create friction thorough knowledge of the Bible (including the biblical between Southern Seminary and its critics. languages), theology, and practical ministry training as Because Southern Seminary is an institution for preparation for ministry and for graduate study. theological education, it finds its identity ultimately in relationship to God. Southern Seminary exists to train, • Bachelor of Arts in Christian Worldview educate, and prepare ministers of the gospel for more and Apologetics faithful service, a mission carefully defined in its essence This program is designed for students who are but evolving in its implications. planning a ministry in apologetics or who are considering Southern has over 18,000 alumni who serve in all advanced study in philosophy. 50 states and 80 foreign nations. Primarily, they serve as ministers of Southern Baptist churches and as • Bachelor of Arts in Church Ministry: missionaries throughout the world. Alumni also include Expository Preaching and Pastoral Leadership college and university presidents, several former This program is designed to prepare male students presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, and for pastoral ministry. A 30 hour core of Church Ministry leaders at other evangelical institutions. For students past duties is required which includes a concentration in and present, their preparation has been underscored by preaching, pastoral care, and administration through a school with a heritage of innovation and excellence. pastoral leadership. But that preparation is rooted in the tradition of faith and • Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies: commitment that brought this institution into being and which has sustained Southern Seminary from its founding Seminary Track This program is designed for high school graduates to the twenty-first century. who have already recognized their call to seminary for advanced study. Students who enter the Seminary Track Academic Programs can potentially earn both an undergraduate degree from Throughout its history, Southern Seminary has maintained Boyce College and the Master of Divinity from Southern the unitary purpose of preparing students for Christian Seminary in as little as five years. page 16 | About Southern SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 • Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies: Students who graduate with this degree will be able Biblical Counseling Major to work in a variety of positions in business, government The purpose of this program is to prepare persons for service, and relief and development organizations, a variety of counseling ministry possibilities, including all over the world. They will also be able to work as counseling in the local church, as well as to position Administrative Pastors with a solid biblical background students for attending seminary or graduate school and and a good basic understanding of business. pursuing advanced training in biblical counseling. • Bachelor of Science in Humanities • Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies: Church This program is designed for students who want a Ministry Major comprehensive education in humanities, combined Students who complete this program will be equipped with biblical and ministry related courses. It is intended to work in various ministry positions related to children, for students who want a broad based undergraduate youth, family, and leadership ministry within the local education in anticipation of graduate study. church. A 30 hour core of Church Ministry studies is • Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education required which includes a concentration in one of two The purpose of this program is to train professional areas: Family Ministry or Christian Leadership. This elementary teachers for both the Christian and Public degree may be earned through online courses. schools, grades K-5. See Boyce website for more • Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies: information. www.boycecollege.com/academics/ Global Studies Major programs-of-study/teacher-education-program/ The purpose of this program is to prepare students • Associate of Arts in Biblical and to live and work inter-culturally in both national and Theological Studies international settings. While the world is flattening and This program features many of the same courses as the distances from one country to the next are shortening, Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies. It is cultures still vary and students must be able to traverse designed to give basic training in a broad range of areas those cultures effectively in order to live, work, and serve to those called to ministry. This degree may be earned those in need. through online courses. After completing this degree, students will be able to work in a variety of positions over the world of • Worldview Studies Certificate business, government service, relief and development The Worldview Studies Certificate is an intensive organizations, and serve in traditional mission settings thirty-five college credit hour program designed to be and churches. completed in one academic year. It is intended to help establish a foundation in a biblical worldview in first-time • Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies: students preparing for further studies in the university. Worship and Music Studies Major The purpose of the Worship and Music Studies major is to equip students with the necessary skills needed to lead Seminary Wives Institute an effective worship ministry in the local church as well Non-Accredited Studies The Women’s Ministry Institute equips women to evangelize as in other ministry settings. It features a major focus on and nurture women by developing their spiritual gifts and worship leadership, songwriting/arranging, and allows for talents, supporting the functions of the church and the versatility of training through restricted electives. denomination, and engaging the next generation. Eight • Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies: credits earn a Certificate in Ministry Studies; an additional Worship and Pastoral Studies Major eight credits earn an Advanced Certificate in Ministry This Worship and Pastoral Studies major is designed Studies. More information is available in the Women’s to prepare male students for pastoral ministry with Program Office, HCC 230, [email protected]. concentration in modern worship leadership. It features a The Seminary Wives Institute offers classes for equipping major focus on worship leadership, songwriting/arranging the wives of ministers for their unique service with biblically and preaching. based and practically applied teaching. Classes convene on Thursday evenings during both fall and spring semesters • Bachelor of Science in Business and are led by seminary faculty, faculty wives, and guest Administration speakers. After completion of thirteen credits, the student This program will prepare students for three avenues is awarded a Certificate of Ministry Studies through Boyce of service. First, it will prepare students who want to College. An Advanced Certificate in Ministry Studies is also live overseas and work interculturally. For students available for students who complete seventeen credits or who wish to go with agencies overseas this degree more. Additional information is available by email at swi@ will help them think through good business practice. sbts.edu or voicemail at 502-897-4816. Second, this degree is for students who want to run or work for a non-profit organization either in the US or Master’s Level and overseas. Third, this degree will prepare students who Doctoral Programs want to live in the US and work in local churches. The The basic professional (master’s) degree programs degree will help them with the “business” aspect of provide education for students to serve as pastors, church leadership. chaplains, missionaries, evangelists, Christian educators,

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 17 Christian leaders, church musicians, worship leaders, in the following areas): campus ministers, denominational ministers, and many • Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth* other vocations. The doctoral degree programs equip • Theology* students of exceptional ability for service in institutions of • Worship Leadership* higher learning and in various ministry positions. Asterisks (*) indicate programs no longer offered to Professional Doctoral Programs • Doctor of Ministry with the following specializations: new students. • Applied Apologetics Specific Programs of Study • Applied Theology • Biblical Counseling Diploma Programs • Biblical Spirituality • Missions, Evangelism, and Ministry • Biblical Theology • Theology • Black Church Leadership • Church Ministries* • Christian Ethics • Great Commision Studies* • Christian Ministry • Missions* • Christian Worship • Online Graduate Certificate* • Church Revitalization • Theological Studies* • Executive Leadership • Worship Leadership* • Expository Preaching Professional Degree Programs • Family Ministry • Master of Arts degree in: • Global Missions • Biblical Counseling • Leadership • Theological Studies • Korean Church Leadership* • Christian Education • Doctor of Educational Ministry with the following • Church Ministries specializations: • Discipleship & Family Ministry • Applied Apologetics • Leadership • Biblical Counseling • Missiology • Biblical Spirituality • Theological Studies • Black Church Leadership • Lay Leadership • Christian Ethics • Intercultural Leadership • Christian Worship • Worship Leadership • Church Revitalization • Youth & Family Ministry • Executive Leadership • Master of Arts [Islamic Studies] • Family Ministry • Master of Church Music • Leadership • Master of Divinity degree including the following • Christian Ministry* concentrations: • Global Missions* • Applied Apologetics Research Doctoral Programs • Biblical and Theological Studies • Master of Theology • Biblical Counseling • Doctor of Education • Biblical Spirituality • Doctor of Missiology • Boyce Alumnus • Doctor of Philosophy • Christian Ministry • Church and Pastoral Ministries Extension Centers • Church Planting Southern Seminary provides opportunities for students • Discipleship & Family Ministry to pursue a significant portion of their theological • Great Commission Studies education at sites other than the main campus in • International Church Planting/2+ Program Louisville. The seminary currently offers master-level • International Missions classes at the following extension center locations: • Islamic Studies • Auburn, AL (special permission required) • Itinerant Evangelism • Boston, MA • Leadership • Columbia, MD • Missions and Bible Translation • East Tennessee (Knoxville area) • Missions and Biblical Counseling • Greenville, SC • North American Missions • Jackson, TN • Pastoral Studies • Nashville, TN • Urban Missions • New York, NY • Worldview and Apologetics • Northwest Arkansas • Worship Leadership • Washington, D.C. • Youth & Family Ministry • Church Ministries* For specific information about extension centers, • Advanced Master of Divinity degree (past concentrations contact the Office of Extension Education at 502-897- page 18 | About Southern SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 4390 or email your inquiry to [email protected]. Specific information related to each center is available online at www.sbts.edu/extension. Global Campus The Global Campus at Southern Seminary provides the flexibility of completing the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and the Master of Arts in Theological Studies (M.A.T.S.) in any format a student may choose, including online, hybrid modular, extension center and Ministry Apprenticeship Program (MAP) courses. Students in graduate programs other than the M.Div. and M.A.T.S. may earn up to half their credit hours through distance education. The bachelor of arts degree in biblical and theological studies is available fully online. In addition to normal fees and tuition, a technology fee is assessed for online courses. For more information concerning online course delivery, visit Southern Seminary’s website at www.sbts.edu/online or contact the Global Campus at campus extension 4701 or [email protected]. Visiting Scholar Program The Visiting Scholar Program is designed for mature scholars who have already obtained a Ph.D. degree or A.B.D. status and are seeking to thoroughly engage in research for a maximum of two consecutive semesters. Visiting scholars are free to pursue specialized interests by using the library facilities and consulting with professors and professional peers. Visiting Scholars are welcome to be involved in a variety of aspects of the Ph.D. experience such as the 1892 Club, and they may request permission to attend departmental colloquium. An application for the Visiting Scholar Program can be obtained online at www.sbts.edu. The Admissions Office processes applications, and approval is granted by the Research Doctoral Studies Office. Reservations for campus housing are made through the Legacy Center, 502-736-0600. Regarding international eligibility, SBTS is not authorized by the Immigration Service (USCIS) to accept international visiting scholars with J-1 Exchange Visitor visas as instructors, researchers, or as students seeking special (non-degree) student status, either full or part time. International applicants for specialized study should contact the Center for Student Success at SBTS to determine legal parameters.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY About CATALOG Southern | | 2015-2016 page 19 AdmissionsAdmissions

Requirement Descriptions • Degree Programs • Diploma Program • Master’s Program • Doctoral Programs • Acceptance Categories • Deadlines “At Southern Seminary you will have the opportunity to study under leading scholars, develop spiritually, and gain hands-on experience in ministry.”

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is comprised The Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and of three separate schools—an undergraduate college and Ministry is the largest Great Commission school in two premier graduate schools. The School of Theology, the world, and is dedicated to training ministers and the founding school of the institution, specializes in laypersons to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew classic studies for ministry and scholarship, such as Bible, 28:18-20). It also prepares pastors and staff members for Theology, Church History and Preaching. service in fields of education and church leadership.

Admissions Requirements by Degree Program MATS MA/M.Div./Adv. M.Div. Diploma Application Form Application Form Application Form Application Fee Application Fee Application Fee Official Transcription Church/Pastoral Recommendation Church/Pastoral Recommendation Pastor/Leader Recommendation Official Transcription Official Transcription Spiritual Autobiography Recommendation Forms (2) Recommendation Forms (2) Proof of Missionary appointment* Spiritual Autobiography Spiritual Autobiography TOEFL (International applicants) TOEFL (International applicants) TOEFL (International applicants) Academic Paper (Adv. M.Div. Only)

Th.M. D.Min./D.Ed.Min. Ed.D./D.Miss./Ph.D. Application Form Application Form Application Form Application Fee Application Fee Application Fee Church/Pastoral Recommendation Church/Pastoral Recommendation Church/Pastoral Recommendation Official Transcription Official Transcription Official Transcription Recommendation Forms (2) Recommendation Forms (2) Recommendation Forms (2) Spiritual Autobiography Spiritual Autobiography Spiritual Autobiography TOEFL (International applicants) TOEFL (International applicants) TOEFL (International applicants) Academic Paper Ministry Field Essay Academic Paper Interview GRE Ministry Resumé Library and Employer Forms (Modular Format) Entrance Exams Interview (Ed.D. and Ph.D. only) Vitae (Ed.D. and D.Miss. only) Video (Worship Concentration Only)

*Proof of missionary appointment is required for students applying to the MATS for Intercultural Leadership Program only. When applying online, recommendations and autobiography can be completed through the online application.

page 20 | Admissions SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 • Spiritual Autobiography: The Spiritual Autobiography Admission Requirement consists of a description of your understanding of the Descriptions: gospel of Jesus Christ, conversion, spiritual growth, call • Church/Pastoral Recommendation: All applicants must to ministry and reason for choosing Southern Seminary. receive official endorsement from the local church MATS applicants must indicate that they understand where they are a member. All applicants are expected that the MATS degree is designed for laypersons only to have maintained official church membership for a and not for those pursuing vocational ministry. minimum of one year. Additional recommendations may • Academic Paper: This is a requirement for Advanced be required for applicants not attending the church Master of Divinity and all research doctoral applicants. which holds their membership. Applicants are required to submit a writing sample • Recommendation Forms: We suggest that a from their undergraduate or seminary education, professor and business acquaintance each complete respectively. This requirement allows for proper analysis a recommendation form. Family members may not of an applicant’s writing and research abilities. Please complete a recommendation form. Recommenders submit an unmarked sample from your previous must have known the applicant for a minimum of one schooling. It should be a clean copy and may account year. If for some reason recommendations do not for former professor’s editorial comments. The paper reflect this kind of diversity, the Admissions Office may for the Advanced M.Div. and Doctoral programs should request additional recommendations. Research Doctoral be 12-20 pages in length. applicants are encouraged to submit at least two • Official Transcripts: Transcripts from all educational academic recommendations. institutions in which a degree was conferred are • Pastor/Leader Form: This is a requirement for required. Diploma applicants must submit an official all MATS and MATSIL applicants. The Pastor/ copy of their high school diploma or the GED, unless Leader Recommendation is submitted in lieu of the applicant has completed a minimum of 24 hours the normal Church/Pastoral Recommendation and two of college credit. The students (or applicants) must Recommendation Forms. MATSIL applicants should request that their official transcripts be submitted have the Pastor/Leader recommendation filled out by directly from the school to the Admissions office. the IMB. For further information, see the application • TOEFL: A TOEFL exam is required of all international instruction page or contact the Admissions office. applicants whose native language is not English.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Admissions CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 21 by the school at the beginning of graduate study. The Diploma Program These exams evaluate knowledge and skill in music Admission Prerequisites: theory, sight singing, ear training, keyboard, voice and • The Diploma Program is designed for candidates conducting. Students pursuing the Master of Church who have not completed or earned an accredited Music can expect additional testing in the areas of Bachelor’s degree. The student must give proof of music theory, orchestration and music history. Students high school graduation by submitting a high school who show deficiencies in the placement exams will take transcript, General Educational Development (GED) some additional pre-graduate course work in the areas transcript or equivalent. If the applicant has 24 or of their deficiency (music theory, aural skills, keyboard, more college hours, a high school transcript or GED etc.). These courses may be taken along side graduate transcript is no longer required. Candidates must level courses as long as the graduate level course does be over 30 years of age. Younger applicants are not rely on the particular skills the student is trying encouraged to complete an undergraduate degree to improve through pre-graduate work. Students are prior to seminary or to apply to Boyce College, the expected to satisfy pre-graduate requirements dictated undergraduate school of Southern Seminary. by the placement exams within the first year of study. • A minimum of one year of church membership. Applicants with a less specialized course of study may provisionally enter the program and satisfactorily Application Requirements: complete either placement examinations and auditions • Please see the table and descriptions listed on pages in music or accelerated pre-graduate studies in music 20-21. theory, conducting, and applied major and minor areas. Study guides for the placement exams are available International Applicants: upon request by contacting the Billy Graham School. • For applicants whose native language is not English, • A minimum of one year of church membership. an official score report of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum acceptable score Application Requirements: of 83 (internet-based) or 220 (computer based) Scores • Please see the table and descriptions listed on pages may not be more than 3 years old. 20-21. Additional Information: International Applicants: • Students in the Diploma Program within the School of • International students must submit an official score Theology or Billy Graham School complete any of the report of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign M.Div. curricular concentrations with the exception of Language) if English is not their native language. No the Hebrew and Greek requirements. score less than 83 (internet-based) or 220 (computer • Any additional items requested by the Admissions based) or older than 3 years is accepted. Committee in order for the Committee to obtain a more in-depth profile of the applicant. Advanced Master of Divinity requirement: • Applicants must submit an academic paper of 12-20 pages in length written during undergraduate study as a The Master’s Program research and writing sample. (M.A., M.Div.) Additional Information: Admission Prerequisites: • MATS students must indicate in their spiritual • Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited autobiography that they understand this degree is institution. for laypersons only and they do not plan on serving • A minimum college cumulative grade point average in a pastoral or staff position. The only exception is of 2.4 (on a 4.0 scale). Applicants with a college the MATS for Intercultural Leadership. Students in the cumulative grade point average below 2.4 (on a 4.0 MATSIL are expected to be full time missionaries or scale) may be accepted on academic probation on an candidates for appointment. individual basis. • Advanced M.Div. applicants must have a minimum • Music and Worship Degrees — Southern Seminary of a 3.3 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale. Additionally, offers three graduate level degrees in the area of students must have completed at least 6 hours in: Old music and worship: Master of Divinity in Worship Testament Survey, New Testament Survey, Church Leadership, Master of Arts in Worship Leadership and History, and Systematic Theology. Only courses in Master of Church Music. Students desiring to pursue which a grade of “B” or higher was achieved will the Master of Church Music degree should have a be recognized. Other classes students should have baccalaureate degree with a major in music from a completed on the undergraduate level include 3 regionally accredited institution. This degree must be hours in each of the following: Ethics, Philosophy, approved by the National Association of Schools of Hermeneutics, Preaching, Hebrew, and Greek. Under Music (N.A.S.M). The Master of Divinity in Worship certain exceptions, students may be admitted into Leadership and Master of Arts in Worship Leadership the Advanced M.Div. if they can complete these do not require an undergraduate degree in music. All prerequisites within their first semester of enrollment. applicants entering music and worship degrees at • All students in Music degrees must go through Music Southern Seminary must take placement exams offered Placement Exams to determine their level of ability page 22 | Admissions SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 during orientation. • Additional writing samples may be required as needed • Master of Arts in Missiology — Missions applicants must by the program director. have declared a call to missions and must have approval • TOEFL: See International Applicant paragraph on pg 25. of the school dean. • Additional items may be requested by the Admissions Office as needed. The Research Doctoral Program (Th.M., D.Miss., Ed.D., Ph.D.) The Professional Doctoral All applicants for research doctoral programs will be evaluated on the basis of their previous academic record, Program (D.Min., D.Ed.Min.) performance on examinations, personal aptitude, and Applicants for Professional Doctoral Degrees will be motivation for graduate study. considered on the basis of an overall profile rather than on a single, qualifying score. Admission Prerequisites: Applicants will be evaluated in light of their academic • Master of Divinity or equivalent from a regionally record, performance on entrance examinations, accredited or ATS accredited seminary. The M.Div. personal aptitude, and motivation for graduate study. degree must include the minimum Hebrew and Greek International applicants considering professional required in the M.Div. program of Southern Seminary (at doctoral degree programs, should first contact the least 3 hours of one language at the elementary level and Center for Student Success to discuss the program’s 3 hours of the other language at the intermediate level). special visa requirements. • The Master of Arts in Christian Education (M.A.C.E.) or its equivalent is acceptable for the following Ph.D. Admission Prerequisites for programs: Higher Education, Christian Worship, and the Doctor of Ministry: Leadership. • A Master of Divinity (M.Div.) or its equivalent from • Students desiring admission to the Doctor of Education a regionally accredited or ATS accredited seminary. program must have earned a regionally-accredited The M.Div. degree must include the minimum Hebrew Master’s degree totaling no fewer than 48 hours, with at and Greek required in the M.Div. program of Southern least 12 hours in biblical and theological studies and at Seminary (at least 3 hours of one language at the least 12 hours in leadership, administration, education, elementary level and 3 hours of the other language at or ministry studies. Students having earned a Master’s the intermediate level). degree but lacking required hours may complete the additional hours through on-line or on-campus study at Admission Prerequisites for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. the Doctor of Educational Ministry: • Master of Theology: For the Ministry Th.M. a minimum • The Master of Arts in Christian Education (M.A.C.E.) master’s level cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on or its equivalent is acceptable for some degrees within a 4.0 scale. For the Research Th.M. a minimum master’s the Billy Graham School. level cumulative grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale. • A minimum master’s level cumulative grade point • Doctor of Education: A minimum master’s level average of “B” (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). D.Min. applicants cumulative grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale. with a cumulative grade point average between 2.8 Admission is competitive and a higher GPA is favored. and 3.0 may be admitted on academic probation • Doctor of Philosophy: A minimum master’s level if they successfully complete all other application cumulative grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. requirements, including any required standardized Admission is very competitive and a higher GPA is exam. Students admitted on probation whose work favored. is not doctoral level after one semester, will not be • Doctor of Missiology: A minimum master’s level permitted to continue in the program. cumulative grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale. • In most cases, a minimum of three years of full- time ministry experience after graduating with an Application Requirements: accredited theological master’s degree is required. • Please see the table and descriptions listed on page 20-21. Application Requirements: International Applicants: • Please see the table and descriptions • Non-native English speakers, including those who listed on page 20-21. have graduated from any U.S. school, must submit an official score report of the Test of English as a Foreign Additional Requirements: Language (TOEFL). For D.Min, D.Ed.Min, and takers • A personal interview with the Director of Professional of the TOEFL internet-based test (iBT) must submit a Doctoral Studies or a designated representative. The minimum score of 90 or a minimum computer-based purpose of this interview is to provide insight into the (CBT) test score of 233. For Th.M. and Ph.D., takers applicant’s motivation for pursuing the degree and the of the iBT must submit a minimum score of 95 and for applicant’s professional goals. CBT, a minimum of 240. Students can go to www.toefl. • A field essay related to the study area will be required of org for more information about these tests. all applicants. • A ministry resumé

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Admissions CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 23 Additional Requirements: regardless of their denomination. Nevertheless, • An official copy of the GRE score. Southern Seminary is a denominational institution • All test scores must be less than three years old and and the tuition of Southern Baptist students is must be officially submitted to the Admissions Office partly subsidized by the Cooperative Program (CP) by the appropriate application deadline in order to be of the SBC. CP funds support the denominational considered for admission. task of preparing biblically-trained Southern Baptist • Successful completion of the Entrance Exam (except ministers, subsidizing approximately half of the Th.M. applicants). Applicants who have completed institutional cost for all Southern Baptist students. the application requirements by the appropriate Students not identified with the SBC benefit from deadline and who are believed to have a reasonable comparatively lower costs afforded by CP funding, possibility of acceptance may be invited to take but are only eligible for the lower tuition rate under the Entrance Exam. in the major area for which certain circumstances. These students will need to fill application is being made. Further information may out a Southern Baptist Membership Verification Form be obtained from the Office of Research and meet certain requirements. Requirements include Doctoral Studies. being a regularly attending, participating member • Interview with the faculty of the school or division at a Southern Baptist church and identifying as a that covers the applicant’s desired area of study. Southern Baptist out of conviction, agreeing with the Applicants who are invited to take the Entrance Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Forms are available Exam will be scheduled for their faculty interview on from the Admissions office. the same day that the Entrance Exam or Qualifying • Applicants Recently Divorced — Applicants who Examination is taken. are divorced must wait a minimum of one calendar • A graduate level research paper in the field to which year before they can be considered for admission. the applicant is applying must be submitted along Upon receipt of the application materials, additional with the application. information may be required, including an interview with the Center for Student Success. • Academic Probation — Students lacking a 2.4 Admissions Acceptance cumulative GPA (on a 4.0 scale) may be admitted on Categories a case-by-case basis under Academic Probation. The • New — These are students who have completed the student must maintain a “C” average for the first entire admissions process by submitting all required two semesters in order for Academic Probation to information and who have been approved into a be removed. degree program. • Visiting Student — A student who is regularly • Readmit — Students who miss two years or less of enrolled in another accredited institution may enroll classes may contact Academic Records to reactivate at Southern Seminary for a limited period (one their status. Students who miss more than two years semester) upon recommendation of the dean and of classes can contact the Admissions Office to see if registrar of the student’s home institution. It is the additional materials are required before re-enrolling student’s responsibility to ensure that credit will for classes. transfer to the home institution. • Non-Degree Student status — This is a non-degree • Visiting Scholar — The Visiting Scholar Program classification for students who are in the process is designed for mature scholars, pastors and of applying but will be unable to complete the denominational staff seeking to improve their requirements before the start of the semester. professional skills through individualized programs of Non-degree students must submit the application, study and research for a maximum of two consecutive application fee, Church/Pastoral Recommendation semesters. Visiting scholars are free to pursue and spiritual autobiography in order to be admitted. specialized interests by using the library facilities, Admittance as a non-degree student in no way consulting with professors and professional peers. guarantees admission into a degree program. Non- Applicants should complete the Visiting Scholar degree student status normally does not extend Program Application from the SBTS website. beyond one semester. Non-degree students may • Provisional — Provisional admission to master’s level not take doctoral courses except for the Graduate programs may be granted, on an individual basis to Research Seminar, modern languages, and Latin. applicants who have graduated from an institution • Transfer — Students must have 1 or more hours lacking regional accreditation in the U.S. or Canada. to transfer into a degree to be considered a In order to qualify, applicant’s cumulative GPA must transfer student. be strong (over a 3.0). The applicant’s course of study must have included at least 60 hours in the areas Admissions Information listed below. No more than 30 hours can be from • Student Spouse — see “Non-Degree” above. areas broadly considered to be courses of Instruction Must submit application, Church/Pastoral related to ministry preparation. The applicant must Recommendation, and spiritual autobiography. have taken classes in at least six of the following areas • Non-Southern Baptist Applicants — The purpose of and no more than 12 hours from a single area can be Southern Seminary is to train, educate and prepare counted towards the 60 hours total. If accepted under ministers of the gospel for more faithful service, Provisional Admission, the student will be placed on page 24 | Admissions SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Academic Probation and must maintain a “C” average days before the semester or term begins, the applicant for the first two semesters. has been approved for admission, and has provided • English/Speech the financial documents and deposit mentioned. Once • History/Geography/Cultural Studies accepted, applicants should plan to arrive on campus at • Philosophy/Ethics least one week before new student orientation (but may • Psychology/Social Science/Management not arrive more than 30 days before classes begin) in • Fine Arts (music, art, drama) order to adjust to the community and receive assistance • Natural Science for special needs. Health insurance must be obtained • Mathematics/Statistics before the student can enroll in courses. F-1 visa status • Modern Foreign Languages students are eligible to earn a maximum of two master’s • Biblical Studies level degrees at SBTS. Questions concerning admission • Religious Studies (history, theology, ministry) to master’s programs may be directed to the Admissions • Biblical Languages Office. Questions regarding admission to doctoral • Professional Studies programs should be addressed to the appropriate Doctoral Studies Office (either Professional or Research). International Questions about financial or visa matters should be Southern Seminary is authorized under Federal law directed to the Center for Student Success to enroll non-immigrant alien students. Students with ([email protected]). F-1 visas can study at the Louisville campus only. The seminary is NOT authorized by the USCIS (Immigration Service) to accept international “visiting scholars” with J-1 Exchange Visitor visas, whether as students or researchers. As US immigration regulations are often subject to change, any international student seeking to study without F-1 visa status must first contact the Center for Student Success before making application. International applicants must meet particular admission guidelines: • For applicants whose native language is not English, an official score report not more than three years old on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required prior to admission. Applicants for Master of Arts or Master of Divinity programs must score at least 83 (internet-based) or 220 (computer- based); applicants for Doctor of Ministry or Doctor of Educational Ministry programs must score at least 90 (internet-based) or 233 (computer-based); and applicants for Master of Theology, Doctor of Missiology, Doctor of Education, or Doctor of Philosophy programs must score at least 95 (internet-based) or 240 (computer-based). • Applicants, other than Doctoral applicants, who are graduates of a United States college or university may request a waiver of the TOEFL requirement. • International students seeking F-1 (student) visas must provide the Center for Student Success with affidavit(s) of adequate annual financial support, and unless transferring from a U.S. school, provide a deposit. This deposit is necessary in order to ensure at least minimum funds to begin studies. Guidelines for determining the required amount for the deposit and the annual support are available on the “International Student Checklist” from the Admissions section of the seminary’s website. International applicants are advised to submit their applications at least four months prior to the semester or term in which they wish to begin studies. If admission materials are not complete at least 45 days prior to the date when the applicant wishes to begin studies at Southern, the applicant will be notified of the withdrawal of their application. The seminary cannot provide any applicant a Form I-20 necessary for the F-1 (student) visa unless, at least 30

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Degree Program Fall Semester Winter Term Spring Semester Summer Term Undergrad, Masters, Master of Theology July 15 December 1 December 1 May 1 (Ministry) Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) January 15 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Master of January 15 August 1 Theology (Research) Doctor of Ministry (SOT & BGS), Doctor of October 15 March 15 Educational Ministry Doctor of Missiology September 1

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Institutional Scholarships • Other Assistance from SBTS • Assistance from Other Sources “And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.” — 2 Corinthians 9:8

Since its inception in 1859, Southern Seminary has is the most prestigious and competitive scholarship attempted to keep student costs as low as possible. Gifts offered at Southern Seminary. First semester master’s- from thousands of SBC churches and faithful individuals, level students may apply for this scholarship for their given directly and through the Cooperative Program, first year of study. The scholarship is awarded for the provide significant funding for the operational budget of first two semesters of studies in the amount of $1250 the seminary and enables Southern Seminary to defray a per semester. A limited number are awarded each year major portion of the academic cost for Southern Baptist based on GPA and ministry experience. Qualifications students. Enrolling students pay a flat, per-hour course for this scholarship include: fee. Southern Baptist students pay one-half the amount • Minimum GPA of 3.5 from all undergraduate and of fees paid by non-Southern Baptist students. This is an graduate institutions previously attended investment in the future ministerial leadership of Southern • Submit a letter highlighting ministry experience Baptist churches. • Submit two letters of recommendation from individuals The Financial Aid program is established to assist who can attest to ministry experience and/or past those with the most pressing financial needs. A student’s leadership preparation for entering Southern Seminary should include a determination of financial needs and the Southern Grant provisions for meeting them since scholarship awards are Master’s-level students or undergraduate students not capable of providing the total budget needs of any enrolled in 6 or more on-campus credit hours during student or student family. the summer or winter term are eligible to receive a $150 Southern Grant. No application is necessary. See the Southern Seminary SBTS Financial Aid website for more information. Scholarships and Grants Missions Grant Scholarships are awarded annually to qualifying Missionaries who are currently serving full-time with undergraduate and master’s-level students and are IMB or NAMB (Career, Limited Term, Journeyman, ISC, subject to conditions established by donors and The US2, MATSIL) may be eligible for a tuition grant from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Unless otherwise SBTS. Master’s level students may be eligible for a grant stated below, applicants must complete the online of 50% of tuition and Internet fees. Research doctoral College Board PROFILE application by the applicable students may be eligible for a grant of 30% of tuition deadline. Additionally, applicants must be enrolled as and professional doctoral students may be eligible for a full-time master’s or undergraduate degree-seeking a grant of 20% of tuition. IMB Journeyman who have student taking classes at our main campus in Louisville, returned from the field within the past 2 years may be KY. Applicants on academic or disciplinary probation are eligible for a 75% tuition grant for the first year of studies ineligible for financial aid from SBTS. Students may apply at SBTS and a 50% tuition grant for years 2-4 of study. for one of the following scholarships or grants: Students must remain in good academic standing with • General (undergraduate and master’s-level students) the institution. The Missions Grant may not be combined • Rice-Judson (entering master’s-level students only) with other SBTS Scholarships. Should the student no • Missions Grant (master’s-level students only) longer be employed with IMB or NAMB, the grant will be • MK Grant (undergraduate and master’s-level students) discontinued. Please visit www.sbts.edu/missionsgrants for more information. General Scholarship Students enrolled in a master’s-level or undergraduate MK Grant degree program are eligible to apply for a general Children of currently serving, full-time IMB or NAMB scholarship. Students must demonstrate financial need by missionaries may be eligible for a 100% tuition grant for completing the online College Board PROFILE. Awards their first four years of study. Applicants must be under range from $600 to $1,600 per year. 30 years of age upon enrollment and must be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or master’s degree program Rice-Judson Scholarship at the Louisville campus or at an extension center. The Rice-Judson Scholarship honors two Baptist Part-time and online education are not included in the missionaries: Luther Rice and Adoniram Judson and grant. Students must remain in good academic standing

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Financial CATALOG Aid | | 2015-2016 page 27 with the institution. Should the student’s parents no sbts.edu/outsidescholarships. Churches or individuals longer be employed by IMB or NAMB, the grant will be wishing to support specific students at Southern discontinued. Seminary may send scholarship checks to the Financial Aid Office and should include the student’s name and Other Assistance from 6-digit ID number. Southern Seminary Student Loans Southern Seminary accepts private educational loans. Short-Term Loans Students may apply for the Sallie Mae Smart Option Southern Seminary offers a short term loan to continuing Student Loan, the KY Advantage Loan with the Kentucky students for a maximum of $2,000 with an annual interest Higher Education Student Loan Corporation, or the rate of 7%. Students may apply for a short term loan in Discover Graduate Loan. Please visit www.sbts.edu/loans the Financial Aid Office (Norton 154) for tuition or living for more information. expenses. Applicants must be currently enrolled at SBTS and must be in good academic standing. The repayment Veterans Benefits period for the loan is 6 months. Southern Seminary is an accredited institution recognized by the Veterans Administration through the G.I. bill. Emergency Aid Entitled Veterans may receive financial assistance for At times a student may face an unexpected crisis caused education. Since eligibility criteria and benefits are by serious illness, death, or some other unforeseen different for each veteran’s educational assistance circumstance. At such times, Southern Seminary seeks program, potential students should contact the Veterans’ to assist with emergency expenses through a grant that Administration Regional Office at 1-888-442-4551 does not need to be repaid. All emergency aid situations to determine eligibility prior to enrolling at Southern should be directed to the Financial Aid Office. Seminary. Veterans should contact the Financial Aid Spouse/Dependent Grant Office with questions regarding VA benefits, and must Spouses or dependents of full-time students may be request to be certified for VA benefits each semester. eligible for a 50% tuition grant on net tuition charges Please visit www.sbts.edu/vabenefits for more (tuition charges less scholarships awarded by SBTS). information. Qualifying students must apply midway through the Vocational Rehabilitation semester by submitting the spouse/dependent form to Southern Seminary is an accredited school that the Accounting Office. Please review full policy guidelines is recognized to provide education for students in the Academic Information section of the catalog. undergoing vocational rehabilitation. The student is Payment Plan for Tuition responsible for initiating the process for receiving Southern Seminary participates in the FACTS automatic vocational rehabilitation with his/her vocational payment plan, which is a program that allows students rehabilitation counselor. Veterans utilizing Vocational to make monthly payments toward their college Rehabilitation benefits should contact the Financial Aid expenses. One-fourth of a student’s tuition, fees, and Office with questions, and must request to be certified residence life costs (if applicable) is due at registration. for Vocational Rehabilitation benefits each semester. The remaining balance is automatically withdrawn from the student’s bank account or credit card in three equal monthly installments. The program is interest free, but a $25 enrollment fee is charged per semester to participate in the program. Tuition Assistance from Other Sources Federal or State Student Aid Programs Southern Seminary does not participate in any federal or state student aid programs involving loans or grants. Therefore, it is unnecessary for SBTS students to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Federal loans already issued for previous educational experience may be deferred through the Academic Records Office. Outside Scholarships Southern Seminary accepts scholarships from all outside sources with the exception of grants funded by federal or state aid. The Financial Aid Office publishes a list of scholarships from home states, which is available at www. page 28 | Financial Aid SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 AdmissionsCampus Life

Student Life • Center for Student Success • The Bevin Center • Campus Facilities • Housing • Employment “It’s great to have so many opportunities provided on campus which foster meaningful fellowship for students whether married or single.” Student Life Student Organizations Southern Seminary wants your experience outside the Student Organizations establish community, classroom to be as enriching as your experience inside communication and spiritual growth among groups the classroom. The Student Life office, directed by the of students who share a common affinity at Southern Dean of Students, offers resources and events that round Seminary. Recognition as an official SBTS student out the student experience. To keep up with the latest, go organization provides access to free meeting space and to www.sbts.edu/current-students/student-life. budgetary provision to pursue group interests. To start an organization or join an existing one, come to the Student Student Handbook Life office or visit www.sbts.edu/students/student-life/ Each student is responsible for knowing this material student-organizations. and abiding by all seminary policies and regulations of the most recent version of the Student Handbook. www. Student Care Services sbts.edu/current-students/policies/student-conduct. Counsel and care is provided for students and their family members through referrals authorized by the Chapel Dean of Students. If you have a personal issue, please Organized by the Office of the President, chapel is an reach out to the Dean of Students by contacting the integral facet of campus life. While classes are in session Student Life office. during each semester, the entire community gathers on Tuesday and Thursday in Alumni Chapel for an hour of Marriage Discipleship & Counsel worship and edification. The Student Life office, in partnership with FamilyLife offers free marriage discipleship and counsel for the Student Activities seminary community, as both low-cost events and The seminary exists to prepare well-rounded ministers individual meetings for married couples are offered. See of the gospel, and student activities encourage the Student Life office for more details. fellowship, leadership and mutual support. The Student Life office offers events that build into our students, Men and Women of the Word starting with the Student Life conference in the fall. Both Men of the Word and Women of the Word are Events include family oriented fun, like free cook-outs 10-week mentorship programs for students aspiring to and movie nights; ministry preparation, like seminars on serve the church. We’ll consider carefully both Scripture various topics; and community outreach, like the and the believer’s response to it, to deepen faith in, love 1937 Project. for, and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ. Students will see a living model of how to conduct a Bible study with Women at Southern expositional and relational skill that will serve them well in At Southern Seminary, we recognize the vital role ministry. To apply, visit www.sbts.edu/students/student- that women play in God’s Kingdom. We believe that life/men-and-women-of-the-word. God is calling women unto Himself. To that end, we’ve created a variety of special programs and ministries ID Cards and Email to address women’s needs, including Seminary Wives All students must have an ID card (the Shield Card) to Institute, Koinonia fellowship events, Women of the use campus services. All students are assigned a student Word Discipleship groups, and Equip: Practical Training email account. Electronic mail is the primary means of for Women in Ministry for training. See more at www. communication for necessary information about classes, sbts.edu/women. registration and other campus functions within the seminary community. Students are accountable for the Ministry Leaders Internship contents of institutional communication received through This program trains men and women for their unique their email account. leadership roles in ministry. Under the office of Student Life, Ministry Leadership Interns promote a culture of Center for Student Success discipleship through active leadership in substantial From orientation to graduation, The Center for Student on-campus projects. Students will work with key leaders Success is your source for academic and personal support across campus while receiving guidance from the Dean at Southern Seminary. of Students for course credit. To apply, visit www.sbts. The Center for Student Success is committed to edu/students/student-life/ministry-leaders-internship. help you overcome challenges and progress toward

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Campus CATALOG Life | | 2015-2016 page 29 completing your degree. We believe that every Southern in addressing those needs. To speak with the Manager student is capable of academic achievement. Our office of Disability Services, please email the Manager directly provides support for you in the following areas: at [email protected] or call the Center for Student Success at (502) 897-4680. Academic Advising Advising Hours: Our academic advising staff is here to guide you Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST while you work toward your degree at Southern Location: Norton Hall 154 Seminary. Students can set up an appointment to discuss their specific academic goals with an advisor and work Health Insurance with them to plan their class schedules. Phone advising Every student and student dependent is encouraged is available for off-campus students. Our office also to have medical insurance while enrolled at Southern provides advanced placement exams and processes Seminary. The Office of Student Success has course substitutions. To schedule an appointment information available for students, including policies to meet with an advisor, please email our office at through GuideStone Financial Resources of the [email protected] or call us at (502) 897-4680. Southern Baptist Convention. Advising Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST The Bevin Center for Location: Norton Hall 154 Missions Mobilization Writing Center The Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization exists to SBTS offers writing assistance to all students free of serve all Southern Seminary and Boyce College students charge. Students may bring drafts of any assignment by connecting the classroom with the unbelieving world. to the Writing Center for help with mechanics (like As students learn skills necessary to present the grammar, spelling, or style) or with content (like thesis gospel, they have opportunity to join faculty and staff statements, organization, or argumentation). Because in proclaiming Christ to unbelievers. Local ministries writing is a process, the Writing Center welcomes include rescue missions, sports chaplaincies, and more. students at any stage, from choosing a topic to Students receive life-long training through short-term polishing a final draft. The purpose of the Writing missions. Classroom learning is reinforced on domestic Center is not only to assist students with their and international mission fields. Opportunities for assignments but also to help them become better hands-on experience include Bible teaching, preaching, writers. Much more in-depth than a simple editing and evangelism in partnership with Alumni and IMB service, the Writing Center prepares students missionaries. to communicate well. The end goal of this service is to Future church planters gain critical experience prepare ministers of the gospel to engage their world by serving alongside skilled church planters and in more proficiently. the “living laboratory” of local churches and gain opportunity through the NAMB internship track. International Student Services The Center for Student Success helps international students meet the legal and social challenges of living Campus Facilities in America through assistance with obtaining legal Seminary Clinic identification and driver’s licenses, and opening bank The Clinic offers urgent care, as well as physicals (for accounts, etc. The office regularly informs and advises employment, school, adoption, and sports), well-baby on F-1 student visa matters, including employment visits, women’s annual exams, lab tests, immunizations, authorization and income taxes. travel vaccines, allergy injections, and maternity All students with legal citizenship outside the United ultrasounds, all at a low cost for seminary students, States are required to consult with the Manager for faculty, staff and their family members. Staffing International Student Services within two days of includes a physician, nurse practitioner, and a team of arriving on campus. To schedule an appointment nurses. The Clinic is located at 213 Honeycutt, behind to meet with our Manager for International Student Admissions, and is open weekdays. No insurance is Services, please email our office at studentsuccess@ necessary. Visit www.sbts.edu — campus clinic for more sbts.edu or call (502) 897-4680. information or call 502-897-4497. Advising Hours: Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. EST Health & Recreation Center Location: Norton Hall 154 The Seminary’s Health and Recreation Center is designed to provide structured and unstructured Disability Services recreational activities that will contribute to the Southern Seminary is committed to making both well-being and development of members in the campus facilities and degree programs accessible. seminary community and their families. The Health and Accessibility is under continual review by the seminary’s Recreation Center, located in the Honeycutt Campus faculty and administration. Students with physical Center, has game rooms, gymnasiums, racquetball accessibility or learning-related needs should contact courts, saunas, steam rooms, swimming pool, toddler the Manager of Disability Services in the Center for pool, outside fountain pool, whirlpool, walking/running Student Success to discuss how the seminary can assist track, and exercise/weight room. The Recreation page 30 | Campus Life SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Center sponsors Children’s Programs, Childcare, Group USPS, such as domestic and international shipping, money Fitness Classes, Intramurals, and Rental Equipment for orders, and registered mail. Though 5th & Broadway games and for camping. Locker and Towel Service is does not process passport applications, they do offer a available. Call 502-897-4720 or email [email protected] for passport photo service. UPS, FedEx, and DHL services are more information. also available. Additionally, most students living in campus housing obtain a box at check in. Off-campus students Bookstore may rent a box on a space available basis. LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention operates the campus bookstore, located in Edgar’s the Honeycutt Center. The bookstore carries all required Edgar’s is named after the late Edgar Young Mullins (also textbooks as well as an extensive selection of theological known as E.Y. Mullins), fourth president of The Southern books featuring a new academic title section and SBTS Baptist Theological Seminary from 1899 to 1928. The faculty author section. Students receive up to a 30% store exists to provide reasonably-priced, good quality discount on nearly all required textbooks. clothing and accessories for students and staff. Edgar’s inventory includes suits, shirts, ties, bags, wallets, Library watches, desk stationery, shaving accessories and fine The James P. Boyce Centennial Library, founded in writing instruments. 1959, provides premier research collections for Biblical, theological, Baptist, missions, music, and other areas of Dining Services study. Its collections contain over 500,000 volumes and Southern Seminary offers multiple dining options. The over 1 million items including books, journals, minutes, Dining Hall offers students, staff, and guests all-you- music, pamphlets, microforms, and audiovisuals. These care-to-eat food court options. These include a soup holdings rank the library among the top five seminary & salad bar, hot entrees, a grill and a daily rotation collections in North America. of “to order” items. We also feature Founders’ Café, The library website can be accessed at http://library. which offers gourmet coffees, fresh pastries, pizzas, sbts.edu. Either on-campus or remote, students can calzones, and sandwiches. As a conference and retreat access online databases, hundreds of journals, and other destination, Southern Seminary Dining Services offers full-text materials. professional catering with menus including simple Wireless access (Wi-Fi) is available, and more than snacks for a team of twenty and formal banquets for twenty computer workstations are located throughout 200 or more. the library. A variety of programs are available for research and tutorials, including BibleWorks. Three The Legacy Hotel copiers are convenient for printing, copying, and Serving as a site to host conferences, seminars, and scanning, provided courtesy of 5th and Broadway. retreats, the Legacy Hotel is integral to the continuing The library provides access to key resources for mission of Southern Seminary. The Legacy Hotel features students who desire to excel in their studies. Students state-of-the-art meeting rooms, which comfortably can learn about library resources from experts at the accommodate up to 200 people, with overnight Research Hub, become better writers by engaging with accommodations in 69 guest rooms, including 35 two- staff in the Writing Center, and get help in Greek or room suites. Hebrew from tutors from the Office of Student Success. For non-resident students, reduced rates are offered Through its collections and services, the library on a daily, half-week, weekly, and extended stay basis, furthers the educational and ministry goals of students especially to D.Min., Ed.D., and J-Term students. Detailed and faculty. rates and reservation information can be obtained by calling 1-877-444-SBTS. Fifth and Broadway The campus store takes its name from the former Event Productions downtown location on the corner of Fifth and Broadway. Event Planners in the Event Productions office work to Services available include the convenience store, facilitate and host retreats, conferences, meetings, and Production Services, and the Post Office. Fifth and other events for external clients, as well as on campus Broadway sells snacks, household items, office supplies, departments. and more. The wide selection of logo items includes This office also seeks to plan new events and clothing and accessories. conferences with constituents of the Southern Baptist Though the Shield Card Office is no longer at Fifth & Convention and other Christian organizations. Events Broadway, students and staff can still add money to their may be scheduled by contacting the Event Productions card at this location. office, at 502-897-4072. Production Services provides duplication and finish Campus Police work for professional color prints, black and white prints, The Campus Police Department is responsible for all binding, and laminating, as well as, organizes Greek and aspects of safety and security on the Seminary and Boyce Hebrew cards, prints church bulletins, and binds class College campuses as well as all other property owned notes. Special event printing for weddings and more is by the Seminary. The department is comprised of sworn also available. police officers who have full powers of arrest on the The Post Office offers most services available through Seminary property.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Campus CATALOG Life | | 2015-2016 page 31 Seminary police officers are trained and equipped for The Dining Hall also offers a “green-on-the-go” program emergency responses and are trained in First Aid and CPR. that allows students to use their meal plan for carry-out The Campus Police Department is staffed 24 hours a meals — good for those days with back-to-back classes day, 7 days a week, including holidays. or a busy work schedule. The department utilizes a computer aided dispatch center and a campus radio system to ensure the quickest Apartments response possible to calls for service. This same center Southern offers a wide variety of apartment living options is able to monitor much of the campus by way of closed in Fuller, Foster, Grinstead, and Springdale Apartments. circuit television and officers regularly patrol the campus Whether you desire 1 or 2 bedrooms, 1 or 2 bathrooms, on foot, bicycles, ATV and by marked vehicle. The carpet or hardwood, new or vintage, we have options for Campus Police Department maintains a close working you. All apartment rates include cable TV, internet, and relationship with the main law enforcement agency 24-hour security. serving metro Louisville. Furnished Apartments While the safety and security of the campus One and two-bedroom apartments are available for community is the primary goal of the department, our short-term stays and for missionaries on furlough. Each members also provide other services including parking apartment is completely furnished and contains all control, issuing Shield Cards and parking permits, key necessary housewares such as dishes and linens. Cable control, escorts upon request and training on topics such TV, internet, and laundry facilities are available as personal safety and crime prevention. to all guests. Requests for furnished apartments can be made at www.sbts.edu/housing. Housing and Residence Life Living on campus at Southern Seminary offers several Commuter Housing advantages for students and families coming to Commuter housing is intended for students and is Louisville. Competitive pricing, thriving community, and available on a nightly basis. A limited number of bed the convenience of being within walking distance to spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis. classes and on-campus amenities make living on-campus Additional information and an online request can be attractive to the nearly 1,000 students and family- found at www.sbts.edu/housing. members who call Southern home. All of the residence halls and apartments include complimentary high-speed internet, cable, and 24-hour security. Additionally, Employment all students and family members enjoy access to the Church seminary’s Health and Recreation Center. The location of several hundred churches within The Residence Life program strives to maintain the commuting distance of the seminary campus allows unity of the Spirit by living out Christ’s example of ministry involvement to be an integral part of a student’s sacrificial love. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary seminary experience. Many of these congregations is represented by students of 41 different countries and all provide opportunities for students to gain practical 50 states. Though ethnically and culturally diverse, there experience in ministry while attending seminary. is unity in Christ. The vision of the Residence Life Program Students serve as pastors, or in music ministries, youth is a seminary community where residents and families ministries, Christian education, and a variety of other experience mutual sanctification, encouragement, and leadership positions. spiritual refinement through Christian fellowship. Although the seminary does not guarantee placement In order to apply for on-campus housing, please visit in church staff positions, it does offer assistance with www.sbts.edu/housing. A non-refundable application ministry employment searches through the Ministry fee is required to apply for all on-campus housing and is Connections Office in the Center for Student Success. payable online. Although confirmation cannot be made The Ministry Connections Office assists students and until officially accepted for admission, students are alumni by providing guidance for resume preparation, encouraged to submit the application for housing early in resources for employment searches, and a website the admissions process. where churches and ministries regularly post ministry Residence Halls opportunities at sbts-csm.symplicity.com. Current students and registered alumni may utilize this site to Carver, Manly, Mullins, Sampey, Whitsitt, and Williams search for ministry opportunities and to post their resume Halls offer single and multiple-occupancy rooms for for churches to view. The Ministry Connections Office single students. Amenities include a meal plan, lounges, also hosts various ministries on campus throughout the community kitchens, free laundry facilities, cable TV, school year and strives to serve as a bridge between the high-speed internet, and 24-hour security. students of Southern Seminary and the churches of the Meal plans are included in the Room and Board Southern Baptist Convention. The office can be contacted charges for students living in the dormitories and are by phone at 800-626-5525, extension 4680, or via email at available upon request for apartment residents. Meal [email protected]. plans can be utilized at any of the dining areas on campus: Students may choose a meal plan with “flex dollars” included in the Room and Board charge that can be convenient for coffee or snacks between classes. page 32 | Campus Life SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Louisville Employment Many seminary students and student spouses find employment, either on campus or off campus, with the aid of the Human Resources Office. Qualified and skilled applicants with job experience are in demand for positions at the seminary. Human Resources takes applications, interviews, and refers students and student spouses to appropriate positions within the seminary. The Human Resources office accepts applications for employment with the seminary at any time during office hours. Applications should be updated at the beginning of each semester. Human Resources also offers assistance for students and student spouses who wish to find off-campus employment in the Louisville area. The Employment Opportunities Bulletin provides a weekly list of jobs, full or part-time positions, from various organizations in the Louisville community. This bulletin is updated every Monday and can be found on Moodle. Applicants are encouraged to visit prior to their arrival and make themselves available for in-person interviews.

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Registration • Student Status • Grades • Policies • Fees and Charges “Necessary norms have been established by the administration to encourage a Christian atmosphere conducive to good academic work.”

added by exception. Applications for exception to this Registration Schedule and policy may be made through Academic Records and are Refund Policy subject to late registration fees. Students register and pay for courses online. Courses are confirmed only by the full payment of fees. Unpaid Drop tuition balances may result in deletion of courses and late Students may drop classes via Moodle until the 3rd payment fees. Monday of the Fall and Spring semester or the 1st day of class during the Summer or Winter term. Classes dropped Add during this period do not appear on the transcript and During online registration schedule adjustments may be will not be charged to the student’s tuition account. made without penalty until online registration closes. Courses dropped after the drop period, fall under the After the close of online registration, courses may be withdraw policy.

Registration Schedule Summer Fall Winter Spring October 1- October 1- Professional Doctoral Studies March 1-April 30 March 1-April 30 November 30 November 30 Last Monday in Last Monday in Research Doctoral Studies Last Monday in March Last Monday in March October October Continuing Extension Center Last Monday in Last Monday in Last Monday in March Last Monday in March and Internet Students October October New Extension Center and 2nd Monday in 2nd Monday in 2nd Monday in April 2nd Monday in April Internet Students November November On-Campus Students* Less than 30 hours to Last Monday in Last Monday in Last Monday in Last Monday in complete degree March March October October Less than 60 hours to 1st Monday in 1st Monday in 1st Monday in April 1st Monday in April complete degree November November 60 hours or more to 2nd Monday in 2nd Monday in 2nd Monday in April 2nd Monday in April complete degree November November 3rd Monday in 3rd Monday in New Students 3rd Monday in April 3rd Monday in April November November 3rd Monday in 3rd Monday in Special Students 3rd Monday in April 3rd Monday in April November November Graduating students who are beginning a new degree must contact Academic Records to be Graduating Students registered for classes prior to graduation. * Hour total does NOT include current courses.

Registration Deadlines Summer Fall Winter Spring 4 pm EST 1st Day of 4 pm EST 2nd 4 pm EST 1st Day of 4 pm EST 2nd Add Closes Class Monday of Semester Class Monday of Semester 4 pm EST 1st Day of 4 pm EST 3rd 4 pm EST 1st Day of 4 pm EST 3rd Drop Closes Class Monday of Semester Class Monday of Semester

page 34 | Academic Information SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Withdrawals and Refunds After the end of the online drop period, students can withdraw from classes by using the online Student Course Withdrawal Form up until October 31 for the fall semester and March 31 for the spring semester. Students are not allowed to drop a course after the deadline. Students must officially withdraw from a class to avoid receiving an “F”. A grade of “WP” (withdraw passing) or “WF” (withdraw failing) will be assigned. This grade does not affect the student’s grade point average. There is no refund for withdrawn courses. Doctoral programs require $250 non-refundable deposit; last day to drop classes June 30 for Summer/Fall and December 30 for Winter/Spring. Refunds** Drop/Withdraw Refund Summer Fall Winter Spring Last Day to Drop Class 4 pm EST 3rd 4 pm EST 3rd 4 pm EST 1st Day 4 pm EST 1st Day Online (Does not appear on 100% Monday of Monday of of Class of Class transcript) Semester Semester Last Day to Withdraw from Class (Appears on transcript 0% Mid-Point of Class October 31 Mid-Point of Class March 31 with grade of WP) **Extension center drop/withdraw dates may vary. Contact Academic Records with any questions 1-800-626-5525 x4209.

Advising Registering for Courses Students may receive academic advising through the at Other Schools Center for Student Success. While in seminary, students may wish to take courses Any academic exception to the catalog standards must through other educational institutions in order to enhance be approved by the authorized dean and documented in their studies. Southern Seminary cooperates with other writing to Academic Records. Exceptions that have been schools in two programs: Metroversity and TEAM-A approved through the academic dean are not granted (Theological Association of Mid-America). without written documentation in the student file. Metroversity Advanced Placement Testing Southern Seminary students enrolled in a degree Entering students have the opportunity to take advanced program can take courses at one of the following placement tests in Old Testament, New Testament, institutions: Elementary Greek, Elementary Hebrew, Church History • Bellarmine College (Louisville, Kentucky) and/or Systematic Theology. Students who demonstrate • Indiana University Southeast (New Albany, Indiana) proficiency on the placement exams must still take the • Jefferson Community College (Louisville, Kentucky) same number of course hours in the subject area to meet • Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary degree requirements, except in the case of elementary (Louisville, Kentucky) languages. Elementary Greek and Hebrew do not need to • Spalding University (Louisville, Kentucky) be replaced with another class. • University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) There are links to these schools’ websites at www. Class Schedules metroversity.org. The school year is divided into semesters and To qualify for Metroversity courses, students must be terms. There are two semesters, each of which has full-time (minimum of 9 semester hours for graduate approximately 13 weeks of classes. Additionally, there and diploma) students. The Metroversity course counts are condensed summer and winter terms. towards the total semester hours. Metroversity courses The unit of credit given for course work is the apply to fall and spring semesters only and cannot be semester hour. This unit represents one hour of class per taken during the winter or summer terms. week for a semester or an equivalent amount of study Application to take Metroversity courses is made during the term. through Academic Records and requires the signature Orientation of the registrar and the student’s advisor or school dean. Students entering the seminary for their first semester The student will then take the form to the registrar of the are required to participate in Orientation, which is host institution for approval. Some institutions require designed to be a welcoming occasion where students Metroversity students to wait until the late registration will meet key people who are here to make the period to register for classes. Please begin the process experience as a student happy and productive. Students two to three weeks before online registration closes for should register for Orientation to receive information the semester. Registration and tuition fees are charged at before the semester begins. Southern Seminary rates. Any additional course fees are paid to the host institution. Cooperative Program Seminar The Cooperative Program Seminar is a (one-time) non- curricular requirement — course 42490 for doctoral students; CP100 for Boyce. Students should enroll

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Academic CATALOG Information | | 2015-2016 page 35 in the class during their first year of study. All course work is completed online through Moodle. Subsequent Student Status registration for classes is contingent upon fulfillment of this Academic Standing requirement. Compliance at a sister seminary of the SBC is Every student’s academic standing is reviewed at the acceptable, provided that a transcript has been received by end of each semester. Each diploma and master’s Academic Records. level student is categorized into one of the following Master’s students will fulfill this requirement through classifications of academic standing. Standards for completion of 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission. research and professional doctoral students (including Th.M.) are described in sections of the catalog that relate to each specific degree. Written Communication Requirement Good Standing Policy A student is considered to be in good standing if that All seminary students must demonstrate an acceptable student has a grade point average of at least a “C” (2.0 level of written communication proficiency by achieving on a 4.0 scale), both in the grading period that is the a “B-” or better in college English courses prior to subject of academic review and in the cumulative total. attending seminary, or by successfully completing Written Communication (31980). Academic Warning All courses in English Composition and/or Grammar If a student’s grade point average in the last grading are averaged to verify a “B-” minimum. For students period is below “C” (2.0 on a 4.0 scale), the student below this standard, a Written Communication is placed on academic warning. He or she must course is required in the first or second semester of achieve at least a “C” average (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) enrollment. Course 31980 is remedial (undergraduate), evaluated over the subsequent 9 hours of course work. worth two credit hours, although it is not applicable Academic warning and academic probation may occur toward any degree requirements. simultaneously. Appeal Academic Probation A student may appeal the decision of Admissions to A student is considered to be on academic probation require Written Communication: when his or her cumulative grade point average falls • The student must submit a letter to Academic Records below “C” (2.0 on a 4.0 scale). He or she must achieve requesting the waiver of the course and stating the at least a “C” average (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) evaluated over justification. the subsequent 9 hours of course work. • The student must submit a recent research paper which will be forwarded to the professor of Written Academic Suspension Failure to satisfy requirements for removal from Communication, who then makes a determination. academic probation will result in academic suspension. Papers will be evaluated based on grammar, This standing requires that the student withdraw from composition, and adherence to the Southern Seminary seminary for at least one semester. If the individual Style Manual. desires to re-enter the seminary, he or she must apply • The student will be informed by Academic Records, for readmission. Readmission, however, is not automatic. and a copy of the marked paper will be provided If readmission is granted, the student will be admitted by request. on academic probation. • This decision may be appealed to the Vice President for Academic Services. Academic Dismissal Academic dismissal results when a student fails to satisfy Independent Study the requirements necessary for removal from academic Independent studies are an exception to curricular probation once that student has been readmitted schedule and delivery of SBTS. If a conflict jeopardizes following academic suspension. This academic standing the graduation of a student, however, the faculty may requires the student to withdraw. The student is then entertain a proposal for an independent study model. ineligible for readmission. The student must initiate the process by contacting the professor for approval and the completion of the Attendance in Classes “Contract for Independent Study.” The school dean of The breadth of the seminary curriculum requires the school where the course is taught must approve a variety of approaches to teaching and learning. this request prior to the beginning on the semester of Therefore, no uniform requirement for class attendance term for the study. The guidelines are available through is prescribed. To allow for flexibility in the teaching/ Academic Records or the Center for Student Success. learning process, each professor will establish the attendance requirements in his or her course. Failure to meet these requirements may be reflected in a student’s grade.

page 36 | Academic Information SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Enrollment Status and Maximum Campus Requirements Course Load Extension Center and Online Students Each course is assigned a credit hour value based upon The Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Theological the semester system. Full-time and half-time enrollment Studies degrees may be completed through any status varies with the program of study in which a combination of online, on-campus, or extension courses, student is enrolled and when the student is enrolled including fully online. (semester or term). Enrollment status is not applicable For all other master’s degrees, at least one-half of the to the Winter Term. credits for the degree must be earned in on-campus Semester Enrollment courses. On-campus courses include any courses Master’s and Diploma programs taken at the Louisville campus of Southern Seminary, • Full-time: 9 hours or more including two-day hybrid modular, one-week modular, • Half-time: less than 8 hours and traditional semester-long courses. Some conference Doctoral Programs and travel courses, as well as integrative seminars in the • Full-time: 1 hour or more Ministry Apprenticeship Program, may also qualify as • Half-time: less than 1 hour on-campus courses. International students with F-1 visas may not enroll at Summer Term Enrollment any extension center. Master’s and Diploma programs • Full-time: 5 hours or more Degree Completion • Half-time: less than 5 hours Students who are taking courses toward a degree Doctoral Programs program and who find themselves having to relocate may • Full-time: 1 hour or more wish to complete some of their work at another regionally • Half-time: less than 1 hour accredited school and then transfer courses back to The maximum course load for the semester and Southern Seminary. If a student chooses to do so, he or Summer term is 18 hours. The maximum course load she must ensure that the last 24 credit hours of his or her for the Winter term is 15 hours. Exceptions to this degree program are taken consecutively at Southern. This policy may be granted by the student’s school dean. means that no courses taken at another school may be transferred in toward the degree during the time when Maintaining Student Status the last 24 credit hours are being completed. The dean Southern Seminary prioritizes the spiritual maturity must grant any exceptions to this rule. and development of each student. Standards are set to encourage a Christian environment appropriate for academics. The administration reserves the right to Grades determine continued student status. Grading System Student status is subject to review at any time. A The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary awards grade member of the faculty, staff, or student body may points on a 4-point system. The quality point value per request a review by the office of the Dean of Students credit hour for each letter grade is as follows: if a student demonstrates the inability to live in A 4.0 C 2.0 harmony within the community, or if characteristics A- 3.7 C- 1.7 presumed present for admission are lacking, such as B+ 3.3 D+ 1.3 moral character, relational skills, potential for effective B 3.0 D 1.0 ministry, and appropriate church involvement. B- 2.7 D- 0.7 C+ 2.3 F 0 Plagiarism and Telecommunications The minimum passing grade for master’s level courses Plagiarism is the use or theft of intellectual property is a “D-”. Doctoral level minimum grades vary, see without attribution, both a moral and educational program descriptions. Some courses are graded on a transgression. Students are required to affirm their satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Instead of one of the academic integrity in writing when submitting all course letter grades listed above, the student receives either work: On my honor, I have neither given nor taken improper “S” for satisfactorily completing the course or “U” for assistance in completing this assignment. Appropriate unsatisfactorily completing the course. Other courses and ethical behavior honors the software licensing are graded on a Pass/Fail basis. agreements and copyright law; respects confidentiality and/or privacy of data; uses telecommunication and Change of Grade computing resources without offending, annoying or Approximately three weeks after the close of each harassing others. Students and employees are accountable semester, the student can view his or her grades for for their use of all computing and telecommunications courses taken during that semester via Moodle. If a resources. Misuse may result in legal or disciplinary action. student feels that he or she has been assigned an incorrect grade for a course, the following procedure should be followed: • An appointment should be scheduled with the professor as soon as possible after receipt of the

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Academic CATALOG Information | | 2015-2016 page 37 official grade from Academic Records. When making work. No transcript will be issued for persons who do the appointment, the student should indicate that the not have clearance, including financial clearance from purpose of the meeting is to review the grade that has Accounting Services. Academic Records reserves the been received. right at any time to withhold a transcript for further • This consultation with the professor regarding the grade verification of the request. must take place within 30 days of the issuance of the official grade. When the professor is not available, the Policies student should consult with the dean of the school in which the course was taught (for master’s work) or the Access to Student Information chairman of the appropriate doctoral studies committee A student has the right to examine some of the for an extension of time or for other instructions. information in his or her student record. To do so, the • If the consultation with the professor results in student should contact Academic Records. A member change of the previously assigned grade, the of the Academic Records staff will obtain the file and be professor will complete a change of grade form with present when the student examines it. Academic Records. Seminary personnel may be given access to student • Additional information regarding grievances may be files for routine purposes of processing. Third parties found in the student handbook. outside the institution may be given only specified items of directory information. Additional access may Incomplete Coursework be granted with the written consent of the student or The seminary faculty discourages granting “incomplete” where the welfare of the student or others requires grades except in special cases (such as medical or family disclosure. Questions regarding directory information or emergencies). The faculty member must deem any student files should be directed to Academic Records. special cases appropriate. The full policy on access to student records is available Students receiving an incomplete during any semester in the Academic Records office. or term are required to complete the work necessary to remove the incomplete prior to the close of the next Evaluation of Classes scheduled semester. If a student does not complete The quality of curriculum and instruction is monitored the required work by the deadline, the incomplete annually. Students participate in the evaluation process. will be changed to an “F.” This policy also applies to A student may submit an evaluation by contacting the independent studies. office of Institutional Assessment even if a course is not Doctor of Ministry students who receive an incomplete scheduled for review. during any semester or term will not be permitted to register for additional classes until the incomplete work is Finals Academic Records will publish a final examination submitted. Students may not begin their doctoral project schedule each semester based on class meeting times. until all incomplete courses are finished. With permission of the professor of the course, a Exceptions to this policy may be made on the student may take a final examination at a date other recommendation of a faculty member to Academic than the scheduled date. In such instances, the student Records. All incompletes must be resolved by the mid- may be assigned a grade of “Incomplete” for the course. point of the semester in which the student intends to graduate. Graduation Policy In order to graduate from Southern Seminary, a student Repeated Courses must meet all of the obligations listed below: Any course may be repeated regardless of the grade received for that course although a course will count Application for Graduation towards the student’s degree requirements only once. A “Graduation Application” must be completed and Each attempt will remain on the student’s transcript, submitted to Academic Records by September 15 for fall but only the most recent grade will be used to calculate graduation or February 15 for spring graduation. Failure the student’s grade point average (GPA) Responsibility to submit the completed form by the deadline may result for unintentionally repeated courses is not assumed by in a late fee or delay in graduation. the institution. Satisfaction of Degree Requirements Transcripts A student may graduate under the requirements stated Transcripts are confidential documents and are issued in the seminary catalog at the time of acceptance only upon the request of the student. Transcripts requests into a degree program, provided that there has not are submitted electronically through the SBTS website. been a withdrawal from classes for two or more years. Requests submitted through e-mail, mail, or fax may be Students may elect to graduate under the catalog accepted under exceptional circumstances. The charge revisions that are implemented during the time of for issuance of a transcript is noted in the “Schedule enrollment, although all the new requirements must of Fees and Charges” at the end of this section. Most be met. Students must contact Academic Records to transcripts are issued within three to five working days. change to the current catalog. More time may be necessary for older records, for The student is responsible to ensure that all students who just completed course work and who have requirements for graduation have been satisfied. not received their grade reports, and/or for doctoral Graduation audits will be conducted upon receipt of page 38 | Academic Information SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 the student's graduation application. Students will be the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), or by one notified by student email of the results. All outstanding of the six regional accrediting bodies in the U.S. Transfer academic issues must be resolved by the mid-point of credit for diploma programs may be accepted from the semester in order to be eligible for graduation. institutions that are unaccredited or have been accredited Students who are within 6 hours of completing by other agencies. All credits are accepted in accordance their degree requirements may request permission to with federal and state law, informed by the standards participate in the graduation ceremony and complete delineated in the American Association of Collegiate the requirements in the following term. Academic Registrars and Admissions Officers Transfer Credit performance and the courses to be taken will factor into Practices Guide. the decision for approval of the request. Please contact Transfer courses must be appropriate for the degree Academic Records for details. program, and have commensurate academic content and expectations to the course being substituted, with Satisfaction of Cumulative Grade Point Average a grade of “C-” or higher. Transfer hours are posted on Unless otherwise stated in degree program requirements, the official transcript as credit earned with no grade graduation from any master’s level program requires the upon the completion of one semester in an approved satisfactory completion of all the specified hours with a degree program. minimum cumulative grade point average of “C-” (1.7 on The maximum amount of transfer credit varies a 4.0 scale). according to the program of study. For all graduate and Faculty Approval post-baccalaureate programs, a majority of the credits Although curricular requirements have been satisfied, toward the degree must be earned through instruction the faculty of Southern Seminary reserves the right to offered by the seminary. Up to 49% of the credits toward recommend that a student not be granted a degree. a degree program may be transferred to Southern Seminary, provided these credits meet the criteria Satisfaction of Financial Obligations outlined in this policy. All financial obligations to the institution must be fulfilled Students are notified via e-mail of transferred credit prior to graduation, so that all accounts are clear of debt, applicable to their degree. Prior written approval from including the graduation fee. If graduation is deferred, the Center for Student Success is required for transferring student should contact Academic Records regarding a any course work during the final twenty-four hours of partial refund. course work. Transferred credit is evaluated when a written request Earning Multiple Degrees is submitted to Academic Records. Individuals who earned a bachelor’s degree at Boyce 1. A request for the evaluation of transferred credit College may not apply any of those credits to a master’s from an accredited institution will be processed degree. Boyce College graduates are eligible to take after the receipt of all necessary documents to electives in place of core M.Div. courses in accordance Academic Records: with the Advanced Standing Policy below. A. Completed Transcript Evaluation Request Form Individuals who earned an M.Div. at SBTS may enroll in B. Official copies of transcripts to be evaluated an MA degree and apply up to half of the MA credits from C. Copy of catalog course descriptions of all work the M.Div. (e.g. Up to 24 hours from the M.Div. may be to be evaluated applied to a 48 hour MA.) Courses may not be repeated D. Copy of syllabi of all work to be evaluated and will be replaced by electives in the same category 2. Transferred credit from institutions outside the (e.g. Old Testament elective for Intro to Old Testament) United States and Canada, or those not accredited to meet degree requirements for the MA degree. by ATS or a regional body, will be evaluated on an Individuals who earned an MA degree at SBTS may individual basis. A maximum of twenty-four hours enroll in an M.Div. program and apply up to half of the may be transferred, and must be approved by the MA credits without relinquishing the MA degree (e.g. school dean or the office of Academic Records. 24 hours of a 48 hour MA may be applied to an M.Div.) A. Transfer of credit evaluation for courses taken at All of the MA credits may be applied if the MA degree an institution outside the United States or is relinquished. Courses may not be repeated and will Canada must be evaluated by World Education be replaced by electives in the same category (e.g. Old Services (WES) before being submitted with the Testament elective for Intro to Old Testament) to meet accompanying documentation (listed below). degree requirements for the M.Div. B. Transfer of credit evaluation for courses from Individuals who earned a Th.M. at SBTS may enroll institutions not ATS or regionally accredited in the Ph.D. program and apply up to 12 hours of Ph.D. require the following documentation: seminars to the Ph.D. program. 1. Completed Transcript Evaluation Form 2. Official copies of transcripts to be evaluated Transfer of Credit Policy 3. Vita of Professor/s 4. Syllabus from the actual course Master’s Level Programs 5. Substantial samples of course work The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary recognizes If an institution receives full accreditation status from appropriate course work completed at other seminaries, ATS or a regional accrediting agency within two years of universities and colleges that have been accredited by matriculation, the student may request a reevaluation of

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Academic CATALOG Information | | 2015-2016 page 39 the transfer of credit hours earned while the institution 1. The Course Evaluation Request form was under review. 2. A catalog description of the course to be evaluated 3. Course Syllabus Professional and Research Doctoral Programs Once the course has been evaluated the student Generally, Southern Seminary does not grant transfer will be notified if the course may be considered for credit for doctoral work completed in other institutions. transfer of credit. Due to varying factors, approval of Any exceptions must be approved by the Associate a course does not guarantee that transfer of credit will Vice President for Doctoral Studies. be granted. Transfer of credit is only granted after the Advanced Standing1 course has been successfully completed, and a request A person who has taken Boyce College courses will receive for transfer of credit has been received with the required advanced standing for SBTS courses if the grade earned documentation. for the Boyce course is a B or higher for the courses listed Course evaluations are conducted in the order in below. In the case of some courses, two Boyce courses are which they are received; however, requests from current required to qualify for advanced standing. Unless indicated students will take priority. Course evaluations are not otherwise, advanced placement allows students to take intended to evaluate an entire program; we reserve the an elective course only within the same Division, and right to limit the number of courses evaluated. preferably within the same Department, as the replaced Transfer of Degree Program required course. Students may take the required course Most students who wish to transfer from one degree if desired and do not have to apply advanced standing. program to another must make application through Academic Records. If the change of degree program is Boyce Course SBTS Course from the Master of Arts in Theological Studies or Master of Music in Church Music to another master’s degree, BL101 20200 the student must reapply for the new degree through BL102 20220 Admissions. Students who change degree programs will be BL111 22100 required to meet course requirements that are in effect BL151 22200 for that degree at the time of transfer. The student must also be enrolled in the degree program from which he or BL152 22220 she intends to graduate for a minimum of one semester. A student admitted to SBTS as a diploma student CN101 34300 may apply for degree transfer if he or she meets the HS201 25100 following criteria: 1. Earned a minimum of 24 hours of SBTS master’s- HS202 25120 level coursework. HS305 26100 2. Has a minimum career GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. The student will complete the normal degree transfer LN231 AND LN 232 22400 request and after verification of eligibility, the request LN321 AND LN 322 20400 will be sent to the appropriate school for consideration and approval. Exceptions to this policy must be PH103 or PH111 AND 28500 approved by the appropriate school dean. PH108 or PH112 Withdrawal PH311 29250 A student who withdraws from all classes during the semester is required to complete the withdrawal process PR205 AND PR206 30000 by submitting a “Request for Withdrawal” form to Academic Records and satisfying all institutional accounts. TH211 27060 Withdrawals will be processed through Academic TH212 27070 Records anytime during the current semester. Refunds will be made in accordance with the current refund TH311 27080 policy. Students will receive grades of “WP” for all classes until the last business day of October for fall and 1For corresponding course titles, check the Curriculum March for spring. Students who withdraw after that time sections of the SBTS and Boyce College catalogs. will receive automatic “F”’s. A student who withdraws and desires to be readmitted must contact Admissions at least 30 days Course Evaluation Policy prior to the beginning of the semester or term. The Students wishing to take a course at other institutions not reapplication fee will not apply. affiliated with Metroversity or Team-A for transfer of credit Students are permitted two consecutive semesters to Boyce College or Southern Seminary should request a of inactivity (not enrolled for courses) without being course evaluation prior to registering for the course. required to withdraw from classes, but must contact The following information is required to evaluate a course: Academic Records prior to registration. page 40 | Academic Information SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Readmission Dormitory rent is billed by the semester and due by A student must reapply for admission if any of the each registration payment deadline. Apartment rentals following is true: are due one month in advance and are payable at the • Student graduated from a Southern Seminary beginning of each calendar month. If rent on student degree program housing becomes delinquent, the student may be • Student had a period of inactivity longer than required to vacate his or her apartment and may be two years withdrawn from all classes. Schedule of Tuition and Fees Fees and Charges The following fees become effective on August 1, 2015. The major portion of student academic costs is Any revisions approved by the Budget Committee and defrayed by a direct subsidy from the Southern Baptist Board of Trustees after that date will be communicated Convention, through the Cooperative Program, as an to students prior to the beginning of each semester investment in the future ministerial leadership of the or term (in registration materials or by other means of churches affiliated with it. Academic expenses borne by notification). the seminary student are: • Degree fees that cover a portion of the cost of Application Fees classroom instruction, academic support services, and (Non-refundable and not applicable to any other fees.) auxiliary benefits such as an annual directory, social and Application for admission...... $40.00 recreational programs, technology fees, and medical Application to enter a degree program after having clinic services graduated from Southern with another degree...... $40.00 • Special fees such as those for courses that require personal supervision beyond that available from the Student Enrollment Fees faculty in the classroom setting; costs for processing (non-refundable) dissertations, theses, or projects; and extension-of-time On-campus per semester...... $260.00 fees for doctoral programs Extension Center/Internet per semester...... $50.00 • Service fees for graduation articles and materials Winter and Summer Term (all students)...... $50.00 • Processing fees that are assessed for registration, exceptions and extension of time in graduate programs Service Fees • Campus fees Graduation Fee...... $200.00 • Degree fees for programs such as Internet courses that Graduation Fee (SWI and Certificates)...... $25.00 are not subsidized by the Cooperative Program Transcript Fee...... $6.00 Southern Seminary trains Christians of many Processing Fees denominations for ministry. Non-Southern Baptist ID Card replacement (lost card)...... $25.00 students pay degree fees that are twice the amount paid Document Verification by Southern Baptist students. A student is considered (Authentication and Apostille)...... $30.00 to be Southern Baptist only if he/she is a member of a Late Payment Fee (tuition balance Southern Baptist Convention church that contributes to after payment deadline)...... $100.00 the Cooperative Program. Late Registration Fee Financial Obligations All doctoral students...... $250.00 per semester All applicable academic fees need to be paid either on-line or in Accounting by all students, including off campus students, by the payment due date which is Tuition by Program listed on the Accounting tab of info.sbts.edu. Students may contact the Bursar’s office for more payment Professional Degree and Diploma Programs information at [email protected]. On-line payments Semester and Term Fees may be made by checking or savings, Discover, Per Hour — SBC Student...... $267.00 American Express, Visa or MasterCard either in full or by Per Hour — Non SBC Student...... $534.00 using the FACTS monthly payment plan.Full payment Internet Course Fee (per internet course taken — may be made in Accounting by cash, check or money nonrefundable)...... $250.00 order. All accounts with the seminary must be paid Doctoral Degree Programs promptly. Neglect of financial obligations may be cause Continuing ThM students for disciplinary action. Per Hour — SBC Student...... $347.00 A student must pay all current financial obligations Per Hour — Non SBC Student...... $694.00 before registering for any semester/term. A student Internet Course Fee (per internet course taken — must satisfy any outstanding financial obligations before nonrefundable)...... $250.00 grades and/or transcripts can be issued to or for the student. Individuals are responsible for any collection Ministry ThM ($1000 down, balance due equally costs and legal fees paid by The Southern Baptist over 18 months) Theological Seminary to third parties for the collection Program Cost — SBC Student...... $8,337.00 of any account balances. Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $14,175.00

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Academic CATALOG Information | | 2015-2016 page 41 Internet Course Fee (per internet course taken — Spouse/Dependent Refunds nonrefundable)...... $250.00 To qualify for this refund both students must first pay Continuation Fee all tuition and fees in full (or have the FACTS monthly (past third paid semester in program)...... $1,000 payment plan) at the time of registration and both students must still be enrolled at the mid-point of the Research ThM ($1000 down, balance due semester. The Spouse Dependent application form equally over 18 months) is available on info.sbts.edu and is also publicized in Program Cost — SBC Student...... $9,030.00 the Towers weekly email. A spouse or dependent of Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $15,351.00 a full-time student may be eligible for a 50% refund Internet Course Fee (per internet course taken — of net tuition charges (gross tuition charges less nonrefundable)...... $250.00 any Seminary-provided financial aid), subject to the Continuation Fee following guidelines: (past third paid semester in program)...... $1,000 • This refund does not apply to additional fees, including Doctor of Ministry ($1000 down, balance due the Student Enrollment Fee; equally over 36 months) • Only one spouse or dependent refund is permitted for Program Cost — SBC Student...... $11,864.00 each full paying student; Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $15,501.00 • If both students are full-time, the 50% refund will be Continuation Fee (past sixth paid semester in program) applied to the student with the lesser net tuition ...... $1,000.00/semester charges; • If one student is a doctoral student billed monthly, that Doctor of Educational Ministry ($1000 down, student is the full-paying student, and the refund will balance due equally over 36 months) be determined on the net tuition charges of the other Program Cost — SBC Student...... $12,759.00 student; Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $16,455.00 • The terms “spouse” and “dependent” are used in Continuation Fee (past sixth paid semester in program) this policy as they are defined for federal income tax ...... $1,000.00/semester purposes; • The refund will be applied to the account of the student Doctor of Education ($1000 down, balance due who qualifies for the refund. Credits may then be equally over 30 months) transferred to a spouse’s account if requested. Program Cost — SBC Student...... $18,950.00 Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $31,647.00 Individual Supervisory Fees per course Continuation Fee (past fifth paid semester in program) (per semester) ...... $2,000.00 Some courses may require additional fees, such as classes requiring clinical supervision, non-credit language study, Doctor of Missiology ($1000 down, balance paid or musical instruction. See online fee schedule. equally over 36 months) All fees are subject to change. If additional fee Program Cost — SBC Student...... $18,950.00 information is needed contact Academic Records at Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $31,647.00 (502) 897- 4209. Continuation Fee (past sixth paid semester in program) ...... $2,000.00/semester Doctor of Philosophy ($1000 down, balance due equally over 48 months) Program Cost — SBC Student...... $29,810.00 Program Cost — Non SBC Student...... $52,941.00 Continuation Fee (past eighth paid semester in program) ...... $2,000.00/semester Miscellaneous Fees Interrupted Status for Doctoral Students (per semester)...... $100.00 External reader of Ph.D. Dissertation (if applicable)...... $500.00 Postage for International External Reader (if applicable)...... $100.00 Repeat Defense Draft Style Reading, Doctoral Project, Dissertation or Thesis...... $250.00 Repeat Initial Style Reading, Doctoral Project, Dissertation or Thesis Preliminary Pages...... $100.00 Fees for thesis, dissertation, or project microfilming, copyright, and binding are released annually by the library and are subject to change without notice.

page 42 | Academic Information SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 SchoolAdmissions of Theology Faculty • Introduction • Masters’ Programs • Doctoral Programs “The School of Theology seeks to provide biblical and theological training foundational for church-related ministries as well as roles which require advanced theological training.”

Administration Faculty Dean: Gregory A. Wills, Ph.D. Scripture and Associate Dean: Interpretation Division Donald S. Whitney, D.Min., Ph.D. Associate Dean: Department of Old Testament Thomas R. Schreiner, Ph.D. Terry J. Betts Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation (2001) Dean B.S.Ed., Wright State University; Gregory A. Wills M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Dean of the School of Theology; Theological Seminary; Additional Professor of Church History (1997); Studies: Jerusalem University College Director of the Center for the Study of the Southern Baptist Convention

B.S., Duke University; M.Div., Dr. Betts is a fifth generation Southern Baptist minister Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; who has pastored fourteen years in Ohio and Indiana. Th.M., Duke University; Ph.D., Dr. Betts is a frequent preacher and Bible conference Emory University speaker and member of the Evangelical Theological

Society. He has also participated in an archaeological dig Dr. Wills has served as dean of the School of Theology at Hazor. He has written Ezekiel the Priest: A Custodian since 2013 and as Professor of Church History since of Tora. He contributed a chapter to The Challenge of 1997. He was the Archives and Special Collections the Great Commission; has written for Holman Bible Librarian from 1994. He is author of Democratic Religion: Dictionary, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist and The Tie; and has contributed to a number of articles South, 1785-1900 and Southern Baptist Theological for Biblical Illustrator. Seminary, 1859-2009.

Russell T. Fuller Professor of Old Testament Interpretation (1998)

B.S., M.A., Bob Jones University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Hebrew Union College; Doctoral Studies, The Dropsie College

With an interest in Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern languages, literature and history, Dr. Fuller’s addition to the Southern Seminary faculty enriches the Old Testament Department. Before his appointment in 1998, he was Assistant Professor of Bible and Bible Languages at Mid-Continent College and interim pastor in Ohio and Kentucky. He is co-author of An Invitation to Biblical Hebrew.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 43 Duane A. Garrett James M. Hamilton John R. Sampey Professor of Old Professor of Biblical Theology (2008) Testament Interpretation (2004) B. A., University of Arkansas; B.A., Rice University; M.Div., Trinity Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Baylor University Theological Seminary

Dr. Garrett brings to Southern Seminary many Before coming to Southern, Dr. Hamilton served as years of teaching, writing, research and pastoral Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Southwestern experience. He has served on the faculty of Gordon- Baptist Theological Seminary’s Houston campus and was Conwell Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary, the preaching pastor at Baptist Church of the Redeemer. He Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary, Mid-America currently serves as the preaching pastor at Kenwood Baptist Baptist Seminary and Korea Baptist Seminary. His Church. He has written God’s Glory in Salvation through books include Song of Songs in the Word Biblical Judgment: A Biblical Theology and God’s Indwelling Commentary; A Modern Grammar for Classical Presence: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old and New Hebrew; Angels and the New Spirituality; Authority and Testaments. He has contributed chapters to many other Interpretation; and Hosea, Joel in the New American books, and has authored many scholarly articles. Commentary. He also serves as the general editor for The Archaeology Study Bible from Zondervan Press. Department of New Testament Peter J. Gentry William F. Cook, III Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Professor of New Testament Testament Interpretation (1999) Interpretation (2000)

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto; B.A., University of Central Florida; Graduate Studies: M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Dallas Theological Seminary, Theological Seminary; Ph.D., New Jerusalem University College Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Gentry comes to Southern with an expansive Prior to coming to Southern, Dr. Cook was Associate knowledge of biblical languages. He served on the faculty Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Theology of Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College for 15 Division at Florida Baptist Theological College where he years and taught at the University of Toronto, Heritage taught for nine years. He is the author of several articles Theological Seminary, and Tyndale Theological Seminary. and numerous book reviews. Dr. Cook has served as Dr. Gentry is the author of many articles and book a pastor and interim pastor in Louisiana, Alabama, reviews, and has given presentations to groups, such as and Florida, and is currently the pastor of Ninth and the International Organization for the Study of the Old O Baptist Church. He is a member of the Evangelical Testament and the Society of Biblical Literature, of which Theological Society. he is also a member. He is currently editing Ecclesiastes and Proverbs for the Göttingen Septuagint Series and is giving leadership to the Hexapla Institute. He coauthored Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants with Stephen Wellum.

page 44 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Jonathan T. Pennington of Law; The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Associate Professor of New Testament Perseverance and Assurance; Still Sovereign, co-edited Interpretation (2005); Director of with Bruce A. Ware; Magnifying God in Christ: A Summary Research Doctoral Studies of New Testament Theology; and The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testament. B.A., Northern Illinois University; M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity Brian J. Vickers School; Ph.D., University of St. Professor of New Testament Andrews, Scotland Interpretation (2004); Associate Editor, The Southern Baptist Journal

of Theology Dr. Pennington comes to us from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where he completed a Ph.D. in New B.A., West Virginia University; M.A., Testament Studies. His areas of teaching and research Wheaton College; M.Div., Ph.D., The interest focus on the Gospels, hermeneutics, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary history of interpretation. Along with numerous articles, Dr. Pennington has written works on both Greek and

Hebrew vocabulary, in addition to the books Heaven and Dr. Vickers currently serves as the Assistant Editor of Earth In the Gospel of Matthew and Reading the Gospel The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. Dr. Vickers Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction. is actively involved in leading short-term mission trips and teaching overseas. He is also a member of The Robert L. Plummer Evangelical Theological Society. He has written Jesus’ Professor of New Testament Blood and Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Imputation, Interpretation (2002) and he has published articles in Trinity Journal, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, Eusebia, Gospel B.A., Duke University; M.Div., Ph.D., Witness, and The New Holman Bible Dictionary. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Additional Studies: Jerusalem University College Jarvis J. Williams Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation (2013)

Dr. Plummer is a biblical scholar with a missionary heart. B.S., Boyce College; M.Div., Th.M., He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society Ph.D., The Southern Baptist and the Institute for Biblical Research and has authored Theological Seminary or edited Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission; 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible; Journeys of Faith; Missions According to Paul; The Story of Scripture; and Understanding the Bible as well as numerous scholarly articles and essays. Dr. Williams is an accomplished author and esteemed speaker on topics such as the Pauline Epistles, the function of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in early Thomas R. Schreiner Christianity, sacrifice and atonement, and race/ethnicity James Buchanan Harrison Professor in the Pauline letters. He is a member of the American of New Testament Interpretation Academy of Religion, the Evangelical Theological Society, (1997); Associate Dean of the School the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Society of of Theology Biblical Literature. In addition to numerous essays and articles, Dr. Williams is the author of Maccabean Martyr B.S., Western Oregon University; Traditions in Paul’s Theology of Atonement: Did Martyr M.Div., Th.M., Western Seminary; Theology Shape Paul’s Conception of Jesus’s Death?; One Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary New Man: The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology; and For Whom Did Christ Die? The Extent of the Atonement in Paul’s Theology. Dr. Schreiner joined the Southern faculty in 1997 after serving 11 years on the faculty at Bethel Theological Seminary. He also taught New Testament at Azusa Pacific University. Dr. Schreiner, a Pauline scholar, is the author or editor of several books, including Theology of the New Testament; Romans, the Baker Exegetical Commentary Series on the New Testament; Interpreting the Pauline Epistles; The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 45 Theology and Tradition Division Thomas J. Nettles Senior Professor of Historical Theology Department of Church History (1997) and Historical Theology B.A., Mississippi College; M.Div., C. Berry Driver Jr. Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Professor of Church History (2014); Theological Seminary Associate Vice President for Academic Resources; Seminary Librarian

B.A., University of Alabama; M.Div.; Southwestern Baptist Theological Dr. Nettles is widely regarded as one of the foremost Seminary; M.S.L.S., University of Baptist historians in America. He came to Southern Kentucky; Ph.D., Mid-America Baptist Seminary from the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity Theological Seminary School where he was Professor of Church History and Chair of the Department of Church History. He previously Dr. Driver is the Associate Vice President for Academic taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Resources, Seminary Librarian at the James P. Boyce and Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. Along Centennial Library, and Professor of Church History at with numerous journal articles and scholarly papers, Dr. Southern Seminary. He is originally from Montgomery, Nettles is the author and editor of nine books. Among his AL and is married to Kathy Driver. They have three books are By His Grace and For His Glory; Baptists and children: Jeremiah, Charis, and Daniel. He was licensed the Bible, which he co-authored with L. Russ Bush; Why I and ordained at First Baptist Church, Selma, AL and has Am a Baptist, co-edited with Russell D. Moore; and James held pastorates in Alabama, Tennessee, and New York. Petigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist Statesman He has also held teaching and administrative positions at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary (1990-1996), and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1996- David L. Puckett 2013). He has been a member of the American Library Professor of Church History (2002) Association since 1990. B.A., Mississippi College; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Michael A. G. Haykin University of Chicago Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality (2008); Director, The Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies

B.A., University of Toronto; Prior to coming to Southern Seminary, Dr. Puckett M.Rel., Wycliffe College and Univ. served as Professor of Church History and Director of Toronto; Th.D., Wycliffe College of Th.M. and Ph.D. Studies at Southeastern Baptist and Univ. of Toronto Theological Seminary and as Founding Headmaster of Trinity Academy of Raleigh, North Carolina. He previously Dr. Haykin has authored The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of taught Historical Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy and Church History and Theology at Criswell College. of the Fourth Century; One Heart and One Soul: John He has academic interests in the areas of the history of Sutcliff of Olney, His Friends, and His Times; Kiffin, Knollys biblical interpretation, the Protestant Reformation, and and Keach: Rediscovering Our English Baptist Heritage; Christianity and social reform in England in the eighteenth ‘At the Pure Fountain of Thy Word’: Andrew Fuller as an and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Puckett is the author of Apologist; Jonathan Edwards: The Holy Spirit in Revival; John Calvin’s Exegesis of the Old Testament. The God who draws near: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality and Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church.

page 46 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Gregory A. Wills in Switzerland. He has served for over a decade as the Dean of the School of Theology; book review editor for the Journal of the Evangelical Professor of Church History (1997); Theological Society, and now as the secretary of the Director of the Center for the Study of Evangelical Theological Society. He has authored Historical the Southern Baptist Convention Theology: An Introduction to Christian Theology; Getting Deep: Understand What You Believe About God and Why; B.S., Duke University; M.Div., Jesusology: Understand What You Believe About Jesus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; and Why; Sojourners and Strangers; and various chapters Th.M., Duke University; Ph.D., in edited books and scholarly articles. Emory University

Phillip R. Bethancourt Dr. Wills has served as dean of the School of Theology Assistant Professor of Christian since 2013 and as Professor of Church History since Theology (2011) 1997. He was the Archives and Special Collections Librarian from 1994. He is author of Democratic Religion: B.A., M.S., Texas A&M University; Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist South, 1785-1900 and Southern Baptist Theological Theological Seminary Seminary, 1859-2009.

Shawn D. Wright Associate Professor of Church History Dr. Bethancourt has served Southern Seminary since (2001) 2006, holding positions as Director of Academic Advising for the School of Theology, Director of B.A., Duke University; M.Div., Research Doctoral Studies and Academic Advising, Gordon-Conwell Theological and Instructor of Christian Theology at Boyce College. Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Prior to his current role, he was Executive Assistant to Baptist Theological Seminary the Senior Vice President for Academic Administration. Since 2013, Dr. Bethancourt has served Southern Baptists as Director of Strategic Incentives for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Dr. Wright came to Southern Seminary after serving Southern Baptist churches in New England. He has been R. Albert Mohler, Jr. active in church planting and pastoring and currently Joseph Emerson Brown Professor serves as one of the pastors at Clifton Baptist Church. In of Christian Theology (1993); addition to teaching at Southern, he is active in teaching President of The Southern Baptist on the mission field. He is also a member of the Evangelical Theological Seminary Theological Society. In addition to contributions in journals, Dr. Wright co-edited Believer’s Baptism: Sign of the B.A., Samford University; M.Div., New Covenant In Christ (2007) with Tom Schreiner; and Ph.D., The Southern Baptist cotributed a chapter to The Lord’s Supper: Remembering Theological Seminary and Proclaiming Christ Until He Comes.

Department of Christian Theology Dr. Mohler became the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in August 1993. Before Gregg R. Allison assuming the office of president, Dr. Mohler served as Professor of Christian Theology (2003) editor of the Christian Index, the state paper for Georgia Baptists. He also served as Assistant to the President B.S., Northern Illinois University; at Southern Seminary. A leader among Baptists and M.Div., Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical American evangelicals, Dr. Mohler is widely respected as Divinity School a theologian, speaker, and author. Time.com called him the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.” In addition to his presidential duties, Dr. Mohler hosts two programs: The Briefing and Thinking in Public. He also writes a popular blog and a regular commentary on moral, cultural and theological issues. All of these Dr. Allison came to Southern from Western Seminary, can be accessed through Dr. Mohler’s website, www. where he taught theology and church history for nine AlbertMohler.com. In addition to contributing to a number years. He has eighteen years of ministry experience as of collected volumes, he is the author of several books, a staff member of Campus Crusade. He has served as including Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with a missionary to Italy and Switzerland, and as a pastor

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 47 Timeless Truth; Desire & Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance; Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the Worldview and Culture Division New Atheists; He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern Department of Christian Philosophy World; The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness; Words From the Fire: Hearing the Douglas K. Blount Voice of God in the Ten Commandments; and Conviction to Professor of Christian Philosophy Lead: The 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters. and Ethics (2015)

B.A., M.A., Baylor University; M.A., Bruce A. Ware Ph.D., University of Notre Dame T. Rupert and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology (1998)

A.S., Judson Baptist College; Cert., Capernwray Bible School, Carnforth, England; B.A., Whitworth Prior to joining the faculty of Southern Seminary, Dr. College; M.Div., Th.M., Western Blount served as Professor of Theological Studies at Conservative Baptist Seminary; Dallas Theological Seminary. He previously taught M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., philosophy of religion at Southwestern Baptist Fuller Theological Seminary Theological Seminary and philosophy at Criswell College. He has also served in several pastoral roles, most recently Dr. Ware came to Southern from Trinity Evangelical as the Associate Teaching Pastor at First Baptist Church Divinity School where he served as Chairman of the in Burleson, Texas. He is a member of the Evangelical Department of Biblical and Systematic Theology. Prior to Theological Society and previously served on the this, he taught at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary Executive Committee of the Evangelical Philosophical and at Bethel Theological Seminary. Dr. Ware has written Society. Dr. Blount has written many journal articles and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and book contributed chapters to a number of books, including reviews and, along with Thomas Schreiner, has co-edited “What Does It Mean to Say that the Bible Is True?”, in Still Sovereign. He has authored God’s Lesser Glory: The In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for Diminished God of Open Theism; God’s Greater Glory: The the Authority of Scripture, and “On the Incarnation of Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith; Father, a Timeless God”, in God and Time: Essays on the Divine Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance; Nature. He is currently working on a book manuscript Big Truths for Young Hearts: Teaching and Learning the entitled Apologetics and the Death of Modernity. Greatness of God; and others. Theodore J. Cabal Stephen J. Wellum Professor of Christian Philosophy Professor of Christian Theology and Applied Apologetics (1998) (1999); Editor, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology B.A., M.A., Dallas Baptist University; M.Div., Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist B.S., Roberts Wesleyan College; Theological Seminary M.Div., Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr. Wellum has served as faculty of Associated Canadian Once an ardent atheist, Dr. Cabal was converted while Theological Schools and Northwest Baptist Theological reading the New Testament Gospels. He has planted and College and Seminary, senior pastor and interim pastor in pastored several churches, and served on the faculties South Dakota and Kentucky, and as a conference speaker of Dallas Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist in the U.S., Canada, and the UK. He is also a member of Theological Seminary before coming to Southern. His the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical interest in helping others to know the truth in Christ Philosophical Society. Dr. Wellum has written numerous has motivated his numerous college campus talks and journal articles and book reviews including the Journal of debates with philosophy professors. In addition to journal the Evangelical Theological Society and Southern Baptist articles on issues such as postmodernism and the age of Journal of Theology. He has also written articles and book the earth controversy, Dr. Cabal is the general editor of chapters in The Believer’s Baptism and Holman Bible The Apologetics Study Bible. Dictionary, and Reclaiming the Center, Beyond the Bounds, and The Compromised Church. He co-authored Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants with Peter Gentry.

page 48 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Mark T. Coppenger has presented conference papers and published articles Professor of Christian Apologetics on topics such as sexual morality, marriage, infertility, (2004) contraception, capital punishment, war and pacifism, and others. In addition to teaching, Dr. Magnuson has served B.A., Ouachita Baptist University; in ministry and administrative opportunities, including M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; disaster relief, mission trips, college student ministry, and M.Div., Southwestern Baptist chaplaincy. He currently serves as a Deacon in his church, Theological Seminary as an ethics consultant at a local hospital, on the editorial board for Themelios, and on the board of the American Friends of Tyndale House. He was a contributor to the Handbook of Christian Higher Education. Before attending seminary, Dr. Coppenger taught at Wheaton and Vanderbilt, where he directed a project for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also Ministry and served as a pastor in Arkansas; executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana; chairman of the Proclamation SBC Resolutions Committee; president of Midwestern Division Seminary; and short-term missionary to seven countries. He is also a retired infantry officer. Dr. Coppenger is Department of Christian Preaching managing editor of the online Kairos Journal and has Michael E. Pohlman authored, edited, or contributed to numerous books. Assistant Professor of Christian His articles and reviews have appeared in Teaching Preaching (2015) Philosophy, Touchstone, Criswell Review, Reformation and Revival, World, USA Today, and others. B.A., University of Washington; M.Div., Western Seminary Ph.D., The Southern Baptist James Parker, III Theological Seminary Professor of Worldview and Culture (1999)

B.A., Baylor University; M.A., Trinity Prior to joining the faculty of Southern Seminary, Dr. Evangelical Divinity School; M.Div., Pohlman served as the Senior Pastor at Immanuel Bible Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary; Church in Bellingham, Washington. Prior to that, he D.Theol., Basel University, Basel, served as Executive Editor for The Gospel Coalition Switzerland; Post-Doctoral Studies: and as an executive producer and editor for Salem Johns Hopkins University Communications. In addition to his writing for The Gospel Coalition, he has written extensively for popular Dr. Parker joined the faculty at Southern after founding periodicals and websites such as Table Talk magazine, Christianity.com, and Crosswalk.com. and directing The Trinity Institute for nine years. In addition to The Trinity Institute, he has taught at various seminaries and colleges, and has been involved with David E. Prince Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Dr. Parker is the former Assistant Professor of Christian editor of Foundations, an international theological journal, Preaching (2012) as well as the author of several publications. B.A., Huntingdon College; M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Department of Christian Ethics Theological Seminary Kenneth Magnuson Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Professor of Christian Ethics (1999) Theological Seminary

B.A., Bethel College; M.Div., Bethel Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Dr. Prince brings to Southern Seminary many years University of Cambridge of teaching, writing, and pastoral experience, having previously served Southern Seminary adjunctively since 2006, teaching courses on preaching and pastoral ministry. In addition to his role on the faculty, he is also the pastor of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Kenneth Magnuson joined the faculty of Southern Seminary in 1999. Dr. Magnuson teaches on a wide range of topics in Christian Ethics and Theology, and

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 49 Kevin L. Smith has been featured in Preaching Today as one of the Assistant Professor of Christian best preachers in North America, has spoken at the Preaching (2006) International Congress on preaching, and has served as the President of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He B.S., Hampton University; M.Div., is currently the pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Church of God Theological Seminary; Frankfort and frequently ministers in Brazil and Romania. Ph.D. (candidate), The Southern He has also served as pastor of First Baptist Church of Baptist Theological Seminary Marion, Arkansas, and served as Chancellor of Lexington Baptist College.

Before being appointed to the faculty, Professor Smith served Southern as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow Department of Biblical Spirituality from 2002-2006. He has been a church planter in Tennessee and a pastor in Tennessee and Kentucky, Donald S. Whitney currently serving Highview Baptist Church as Teaching Professor of Biblical Spirituality (2005); Pastor. He is a conference preacher and has taken short- Associate Dean of the School of term missions trips to the Caribbean and Africa. He has Theology served in a variety of capacities with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. B.A., Arkansas State University; M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; D.Min., Trinity Evangelical Robert A. Vogel Divinity School; Ph.D., University of Senior Professor of Christian Preaching the Free State (South Africa) (2003) Dr. Whitney came to Southern from Midwestern Baptist B.A., Western Bible Institute; M.Div., Theological Seminary, where he was Associate Professor Th.M., Western Conservative Baptist of Spiritual Formation for ten years. He also served in Seminary; M.A., Portland State pastoral ministry for twenty-four years. He has authored University; Ph.D., University of Oregon Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life; Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church; How Can I Be Sure I’m a Christian?; Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health; Simplify Your Spiritual Life; and Family Worship. Prior to joining the faculty at Southern, Dr. Vogel Dr. Whitney is a popular conference speaker, especially served as Professor of Homiletics at Western Seminary, on personal and congregational spirituality. a position he had held since 1978. While at Western Seminary, he served as Director of the Doctor of Ministry program from 1984-2000 and as Associate Academic J. Stephen Yuille Dean for eight years. He was also the chairman of the Associate Professor of Biblical Division of Pastoral and Church Ministries at Western Spirituality (2015) Seminary. In addition to his many years of teaching, Dr. Vogel also has more than twenty years of active church B.A., University of Toronto, M.T.S., ministry, during which time he held positions as minister Toronto Baptist Seminary, M.Div., of youth and music, pastor, pulpit supply and interim Tyndale Seminary, Ph.D., London pastor. Dr. Vogel is also a member of the Evangelical School of Theology Theological Society.

Hershael W. York Along with serving as Associate Professor of Biblical Victor and Louise Lester Professor Spirituality, Dr. Yuille also serves as the preaching pastor of Christian Preaching (1997) at Grace Community Church in Glen Rose, Texas. He has over twenty years of ministry experience, including B.A., M.A., University of Kentucky; serving as a missionary to Portugal. He has published M.Div., Ph.D., Mid-America Baptist an extensive list of journals articles and books. He has Theological Seminary written especially in the area of Puritan studies, and is the volume editor of two volumes in the new critical edition of the works of the William Perkins from Reformation Heritage Books. His works include William Perkins: The Father of Puritanism; Puritan Spirituality: The Fear of Before joining the faculty of Southern Seminary, Dr. God in the Affective Theology of George Swinnock; York led the congregation of Ashland Avenue Baptist Looking unto Jesus: The Christ-Centered Piety of Church in Lexington. Since coming to Southern, Dr. York Seventeenth-Century Baptists; A Hope Deferred: has authored two books on speaking and preaching, page 50 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 The Blessings of Adoption; and The Inner Sanctum of including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Puritan Piety: John Flavel’s Doctrine of Mystical Union Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and with Christ. The Associated Press.He is the author of Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ, Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches, and The Kingdom of Christ: The New Distinguished Professors Evangelical Perspective. He is also a senior editor for Richard Land Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. Distinguished Professor of Christian Ethics Gregory A. Thornbury Distinguished Professor of A.B., Princeton University; Th.M., Christian Ethics New Orleans Baptist Seminary; D.Phil., University of Oxford (England) B.S., University of Southern Mississippi; M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Land is president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, a non-denominational seminary in Charlotte, N.C.

Prior to becoming president of SES, Land served for Dr. Thornbury serves as the sixth President of The King’s 25 years as the president of the Ethics and Religious College in New York City. He previously held the post of Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of Theology, official entity assigned to address social, moral and and Vice President for Spiritual Life at Union University. ethical concerns. He is the author of Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Eugene Merrill Henry (Crossway, 2013). In addition, he is a Senior Fellow Distinguished Professor of of The Kairos Journal, as well as a visiting professor of Old Testament Interpretation philosophy at Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole in Norway. Dr. Thornbury is also a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Bob Jones collaborator. He can be heard playing guitar on the recent University; M.A. New York University; Thriftstore Masterpiece record (SideOneDummy, 2013) M.Phil, Ph.D., Columbia University produced by Charles Normal. Senior Professors James W. Cox Thomas J. Nettles Dr. Merrill has been heavily involved in international John B. Polhill Christian ministry in Europe, Asia and the Near East. Robert H. Stein As a scholar, Merrill regularly contributes to leading Robert A. Vogel journals, periodicals, dictionaries, encyclopedias and commentaries. Retired Professors Gerald L. Borchert William P. Cubine Russell D. Moore Richard Cunningham Distinguished Professor of Joel F. Drinkard, Jr. Christian Ethics E. Glenn Hinson Walter C. Jackson, III B.S., University of Southern Mississippi; J. Estill Jones M.Div., New Orleans Baptist G. Wade Rowatt, Jr. Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The Paul D. Simmons Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Glen H. Stassen Edward E. Thornton E. Frank Tupper

Dr. Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. A Visiting Professors widely-sought cultural commentator, Moore speaks Joel Briedenbaugh frequently to issues of theology, culture and public David S. Dockery policy, having been quoted or published by many of Wayne Grudem the nation’s leading news agencies and periodicals— Paul Helm

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 51 Introduction • To possess knowledge of the Bible and of historic and contemporary Christian thought and practice Purpose • To receive specialized training and skill development in The primary purpose of the School of Theology is to offer specific areas of ministry graduate theological education to train students to be pastors, teachers, biblical counselors, and for other areas Policies for Master’s Level of service to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The School of Theology seeks to provide the biblical Programs and theological training that is foundational for effective Academic Advising ministry. Central to these educational functions is Academic advising is offered for new students during the development of persons of Christian character, orientation. Academic advising is also available during commitment, and integrity. the year. Students may contact the Center for Student Because Christian ministers encounter a wide spectrum Success. of issues and challenges, the School of Theology offers an education that is both comprehensive and highly Shepherding Groups specialized. To meet the demand for comprehensiveness, Shepherding groups are designed to provide students students complete a core curriculum that will enable with small group mentorship from faculty and fellowship them to think theologically and will equip them with with other students. appropriate knowledge and skills. To meet the demand Faculty members in the School of Theology serve for specialization, students have the opportunity to select as faculty shepherds to provide spiritual support and an area of concentrated vocational preparation. pastoral oversight for all students in the degree programs The School of Theology seeks both to serve and to of the School of Theology. Shepherding groups provide lead the denomination of which it is a part. While closely opportunity for prayer, development of relationships, related to the academic and Christian communities of encouragement, and fellowship. the world, its chief concern is the Christian ministry of Southern Baptist churches. Applied Ministry Applied Ministry is a field education class which provides Overview of Academic Programs an opportunity for the student to learn while engaged Academic programs in the School of Theology consist in the practice of ministry. In Applied Ministry the of three types. First, the basic professional programs student serves on the field and obtains practical ministry designed to equip qualified students for the practice experience under the supervision of a qualified minister of ministry are the Diploma in Theology, the Master at an eligible site. Field education is a requirement for all of Arts in Theological Studies, the Master of Arts in students in master’s level programs. Biblical Counseling, the Master of Divinity degree, and the Advanced Master of Divinity degree. Second, the Enrollment Requirements professional doctoral degree is the Doctor of Ministry. Prior to taking Applied Ministry, students will need to Third, the research doctoral programs designed to qualify make plans for how they will fulfill the requirements of the advanced students for research and teaching, as well as course. Full details are provided in the Applied Ministry for other specialized leadership positions, are the Master Handbook on the seminary’s website. Questions may be of Theology degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. directed to the Applied Ministry Office in the Center for Student Success. The office can be contacted by phone School of Theology Goals at 800-626-5525, extension 4680, or via email at am@ The programs in the School of Theology are offered to sbts.edu. equip qualified students for the practice of effective Christian ministry. The goal of this faculty is for every Securing Ministry Placements Students needing assistance finding a Partnering Site for graduate: Applied Ministry should contact the Applied Ministry Office. • To be a called disciple and minister of Jesus Christ, Assistance in pursuing vocational ministry opportunities is serving His Kingdom available in the Ministry Connections Office. • To possess a deep and growing love for God and a desire to bring glory to His name • To possess an abiding love for people and the work of Master’s Level Program Christian ministry in the context of the church Descriptions and Requirements • To bear witness to the complete truthfulness of Holy The School of Theology offers the following master’s level Scripture degrees: • To maintain the historic principles of the Christian faith • Master of Divinity degree with various emphases and of the Baptist heritage • Advanced Master of Divinity • To be ethically informed and to embody the moral • Master of Arts in Theological Studies imperatives of the Kingdom of God (for laypersons only) • To integrate theological understandings with human • Diploma in Theology, which is a program for persons need in the contemporary world without a baccalaureate degree and requires course work • To demonstrate Christian commitment, maturity, that is similar to that of the Master of Divinity degree. integrity and spirituality The programs of study vary in terms of description and page 52 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 requirements. Program descriptions and requirements are outlined on the following pages. Note: Master of Divinity degrees are also offered in the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry. These other Master of Divinity degrees have different goals and requirements. For further information, consult the Billy Graham School section of this catalog.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 53 School of Theology Master of Divinity Core This core is required for the Christian Ministry, Pastoral Studies, Biblical and Theological Studies, Worldview and Apologetics, and Biblical Spirituality concentrations. The Master of Divinity is the foundational graduate Learning Outcomes degree program for ministry preparation. The program • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a of study is designed to give the student comprehensive sense of God’s calling knowledge in biblical and theological studies and to to ministry. help the student develop the specific skills needed • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global for effective ministry. The need of today’s student for vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. specialized preparation in specific forms of ministry is • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, met through curricular options. The School of Theology interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply also offers the following concentrations: Christian Scripture to contemporary situations. Ministry, Pastoral Studies, Biblical and Theological • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a Studies, and Worldview and Apologetics. larger biblical framework. • Displays a biblical vision for ministry and lead with humble authority. • Preaches/teaches Scripture clearly and passionately so as to engage the mind and move the heart.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Worldview and Culture (6 hours) 20400 Elementary Hebrew (3) 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 22400 Elementary Greek (3) 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 31980 Written Communication (if required) (2) Ministry and Proclamation (25 hours) Scripture and Interpretation (21 hours) 30000 Christian Preaching1 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 30020 Preaching Practicum2 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling3 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 40301 Pastoral Ministry4 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 44910 Applied Ministry: Theology 1 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Theology and Tradition (18 hours) 25100 Introduction to Church History I 3 Total Theology M.Div. Core Hours 70 25120 Introduction to Church History II 3 • Elementary +3Hebrew (if required) 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 • Elementary +3 Greek (if required) 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 • Written Communication (if required) +2 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 27080 Systematic Theology III 3

See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Christian Preaching (30000) is reserved for men. Women will substitute Christian Teaching (45400). 2Preaching Practicum (30020) is reserved for men. Women will substitute The Worshiping Church (40200). 3 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling is not required in the M.Div. with a Concentration in Worldview and Apologetics program. 4 Pastoral Ministry (40301) is reserved for men. Women will substitute Christian Leadership (40080).

page 54 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Christian Ministry The Christian Ministry concentration is designed for Vocational Objectives those called to ministry in the local church or Christian • Pastorate organizations. This option allows for maximum flexibility • Preaching with elective choices, while ensuring that basic courses • North American Missions of biblical, theological, and ministry studies are included. • International Missions Students who would benefit from a broader-based set • Biblical and theological studies of curricular options will appreciate the opportunity • Campus/college ministry for greater selection of free electives and of courses in • Evangelism several areas that will best meet their needs. • Doctoral studies • Teaching in University or Seminary

Free Electives Christian 18 Ministry 18 Studies Theology M.Div. 70 Core Total Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Christian Ministry 88 Requirements • Elementary +3Hebrew (if required) • Elementary +3 Greek (if required) • Written Communication+2 (if required)

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Pastoral Studies The Pastoral Studies concentration is primarily designed Vocational Objectives to prepare men who are called to serve in the office • Pastorate of pastor in local congregations. A balance of biblical, • Preaching theological, and ministry courses makes this a broad • North American missions program of pastoral training, allowing for exposure to • International missions a range of knowledge and skills needed for effective • Biblical and theological studies ministry in the local church. • Campus/college ministry • Evangelism

26100 History of the Baptists 3 Pastoral Studies 18 36450 Ministry/Evangelism or Theology M.Div. 70 Core 36500 Church Action in the Community or 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 Total Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Pastoral Studies Requirements 88 Restricted Electives (6 hours) •Elementary Hebrew +3 (if required) Scripture and Interpretation3 •Elementary Elective Greek +3 (if required) Theology and Tradition elective or •Written Communication +2 (if required) Worldview and 3 Culture elective Free Electives 6

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 55 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Biblical and Theological Studies The Biblical and Theological Studies concentration is Vocational Objectives designed to focus on the study of scripture and theology. • Pastorate Through this concentration, students engage in intensive • Preaching biblical language study and explore theology, philosophy, • North American Missions and history in depth. Students with this concentration • International Missions will likely take Hebrew and Greek simultaneously in • Biblical and theological studies varying degrees of intensity. Since students in this • Campus/college ministry concentration do not have room for the Old and New • Evangelism Testament Introduction classes within the required • Doctoral studies program of studies, they are strongly advised to attend • Teaching in University or Seminary the introductory lectures (i.e. of 20200, 20220, 22200, and 22220) to increase their general knowledge of the Scriptures. Permission of the instructor is required. Exception to the M.Div. Core: 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I, 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II, 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I, and 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II are not required.

27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 Restricted Electives (6 hours) 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 Restricted electives from Theology and Tradition, and Hebrew Exegesis 3 Worldview and electiveCulture Divisions, with 3 hours minimum Hebrew Exegesis 3 required elective from 6 each division Greek Exegesis 3 elective Greek Exegesis 3 Biblical elective and Theological Studies 30 OT Elective in Language Exegesis, Backgrounds, Theology M.Div. Core Hours1 58 Textual Criticism 3 NT Elective in Language Exegesis, Backgrounds, Total Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Textual Criticism 3 Biblical and Theological Studies Requirements 88 • Elementary +3Hebrew (if required) • Elementary +3 Greek (if required) • Written Communication+2 (if required)

1M.Div. Core courses 20200, 20220, 22200, and 22220 are not required.

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The biblical spirituality emphasis is designed for those Vocational Objectives called to minister in the local church or for students • Pastorate who wish to pursue advanced theological studies. This • Preaching emphasis provides courses in biblical, historical, practical, • North American Missions and theological spirituality. • International Missions • Discipleship • Biblical and Theological Studies • Doctoral Studies • Teaching in University or Seminary

(Choose at least five classes from the list below.) Biblical Spirituality 15 Studies 27370 The Doctrine of the Trinity 3 Free Electives 3 40160 Great Christian Lives 3 Theology M.Div. 70 Core 40151 Personal Spiritual DIsciplines II: Prayer 3 and Disciple-making Total Master of Divinity with a Concentration in 25230 Early Christian Spirituality 3 Biblical Spirituality Studies Requirements 88 40170 The Psalms & Christian Spirituality 3 • Elementary Hebrew+3 (if required) 40175 Medieval and Reformation Spirituality 3 • Elementary +3Greek (if required) 40155 Congregational Spiritual Disciplines 3 • Written Communication (if required) +3 40165 Evangelical and Baptist Spirituality 3

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 57 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Worldview and Apologetics

The Worldview and Apologetics concentration is Vocational Objectives designed to give concentrated focus on worldview and • Pastorate apologetics studies in order to prepare ministers to • Preaching engage culture with a compelling Christian understanding • North American Missions of the world. Through this concentration, students gain • International Missions an understanding of how to interpret culture and to apply • Biblical and theological studies a Christian worldview to issues such as those related to • Campus/college ministry science, philosophy, visual arts, film, critical thinking, law • Evangelism and government, and ethics. • Doctoral studies Exception to the M.Div. Core: 34300 Introduction to • Teaching in University or Seminary Biblical Counseling is not required.

28700 Christian Apologetics in Contemporary 29580 Christian Ethics and the Environment 3 Ministry 3 29600 Christian Ethics and Biomedical Issues 3 29720 Christian Ethical Perspectives on War History and Philosophy of Religion (Choose 6 hours) and Peace 3 28510 History of Philosophy I: Classical and Medieval3 29850 Christian Ethics and the Family 3 28520 History of Philosophy II: Modern and 29860 Christian Ethics and Human Sexuality 3 Postmodern 3 28550 Christian Philosophical-Worldview Analysis 3 Worldview and Culture Elective (6 hours) 28577 Studies in Philosophy 3 Courses numbered 6 28510-29950 28600 Faith, Reason, and Authority 3 28660 God and the Philosophers 3 Free Elective 3 28677 Studies in Apologetics 3 28720 The Problem of Evil 3 Worldview and Apologetics Studies 21 28970 Critical Thinking and the Art of Argumentation 3 Theology M.Div. Core Hours1 67

Ethics (Choose 3 hours) Total Master of Divinity with a Concentration in 29300 Biblical Ethics 3 Worldview and Apologetics Requirements 88 29477 Studies in Ethics 3 • Elementary +3Hebrew (if required) 29550 Christian Discipleship in Secular Society 3 • Elementary +3 Greek (if required) 29560 The Black Church and Social Justice 3 • Written Communication+2 (if required)

1M.Div. Core course 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling is not required.

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The Advanced Master of Divinity is an accelerated Hebrew, and elementary Greek, but if not, they may professional degree program for students who have a complete them as prerequisites while enrolled in the Adv. baccalaureate or Master of Arts degree in religion or M.Div. program. Only courses with a “B” or higher will be biblical studies and who have at least a 3.3 college grade accepted for these requirements. point average. Applicants must also have completed at The program is designed to allow a student to acquire least 6 hours at the introductory level in Old Testament a comprehensive knowledge of biblical and theological Survey, New Testament Survey, Church History, and studies and to gain specific ministry skills as is expected Systematic Theology (or 3 hours at the introductory at the Master of Divinity level. In addition, the Advanced level plus 3 hours at an advanced level in each of these Master of Divinity program is designed to develop subjects). In each of the above subjects, students must critical thinking and research skills, and in one of its not only have the minimum of 6 hours, but their course two concentrations, it offers the opportunity for more work must have covered the full scope of the discipline, in-depth study through the writing of a 40-60 page thesis. i.e., course work that covers the whole Old Testament In the non-thesis concentration the student will take an from Genesis to Malachi, the whole of the New Testament, additional elective course in the place of writing a thesis. Church History from the 1st to the 21st century and The curriculum for the Advanced Master of Divinity Introduction to Theology that covers Bibliology through combines the cohesiveness of a core of required courses Eschatology. Only courses credited with a “B” or higher with the flexibility of elective choices. will be accepted for these requirements, and applicants who have not completed these hours will not be admitted Vocational Objectives to the Advanced M.Div. program. Applicants must • Pastorate also submit an acceptable 12-20 page undergraduate • Preaching research paper evidencing their research and writing • Biblical and theological studies ability in some area of biblical or theological studies. • Doctoral studies Students should also have completed 3 hours each in • Teaching in University or Seminary ethics, philosophy, hermeneutics, preaching, elementary

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Ministry and Proclamation (22 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 Scripture and Interpretation (18 hours) 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 40301 Pastoral Ministry1 3 27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 44910 Applied Ministry: Theology 1 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Hebrew Exegesis 3 Preaching electiveelective2 3 Greek Exegesis 3 elective Research and Elective Studies (6-7 hours)3 Theology and Tradition (18 hours) 40375 Advanced M.Div. Thesis Writing 2 26100 History of the Baptists 3 or free elective 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 44560 Supervised Research Experience 2 Church History 3 81020 GraduateElective Research Seminar 2 Systematic Theology 3 Elective Theology and 6 TraditionTotal Advanced Master of Divinityelectives Requirements Thesis 73 Concentration Worldview and Culture (9 hours) Non-thesis Concentration 74 Philosophy elective 3 • Written Communication+2 (if required) Ethics elective 3 Worldview and 3 Culture elective uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Pastoral Ministry (40301) is reserved for men. Women will substitute Christian Leadership (40080). 2If a student takes Christian Preaching (30000) because of an entrance deficiency, then that student must take Preaching Practicum (30020) to fulfill the preaching elective requirement. Christian Preaching (30000) is reserved for men. Women will substitute Christian Teaching (45400). Preaching Practicum (30020) is reserved for men. Women will substitute The Worshiping Church (40200). 3A two-track Adv. M.Div. option is offered: 1) Track One is a thesis track. The student will take Graduate Research Seminar (81020) in the term prior to Supervised Research Experience (44560) which must be taken prior to Thesis Writing (40375) which will be taken in the last semester of study. The student will write a 12,000 to 15,000 words. 2) Track Two is a non-thesis track. The student will take a three-hour elective in place of the two-hour Thesis Writing Course.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 59 Advanced Master of Divinity — Boyce Alumnus

Advanced Master of Divinity program exclusively designed for Boyce College graduates.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Students may choose four electives from a field to earn a 20400 Elementary Hebrew (3) concentration in: 22440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis (3) 22400 Elementary Greek (3) • Biblical/Theological Studies 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis (3) • Biblical Counseling 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) • Worldview Studies

Biblical and Theological Studies (12 hours) ** All other students would graduate 27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 with M.Div. in Christian Ministry. 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 Hebrew Exegesis 3 Total electiveMaster of Divinity Requirements 73 Greek Exegesis 3 20400 Elementaryelective Hebrew (if required) +3 22400 Elementary Greek (if required) +3 Theology and Tradition (15 hours) 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis (if required)+3 Church History 3 22440 Greek Syntaxelective and Exegesis (if required)+3 Christian Theology 3 Written elective Communication +2 (if required) Theology and 9 Tradition electives

Worldview and Culture (6 hours) Philosophy or Apologetics elective 3 Ethics elective 3

Ministry and Proclamation (19 hours) 30960 Intercultural Communicationor 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 30020 Preaching Practicum1 3 34305 Biblical and Theological Foundations for Counseling 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 44910 Applied Ministry 1 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Missions elective 3

Free Electives 21

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Women students will substitute 45400 Christian Teaching.

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This program is designed for high school graduates See the Boyce College web site for more information: who have already recognized their call to seminary for www.boycecollege.com/academics/programs-of-study/ advanced study. Students who enter the Seminary Track seminary-track can potentially earn both an undergraduate degree from Boyce College and the Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary in as little as five years.

General Studies Biblical and36 Theological Studies 54 EN 101 English Composition I 3 BL 342 History of the Bible 3 EN 102 English Composition II 3 LN 231 Greek I 3 HS 105 Ancient Near Eastern History 3 LN 232 Greek II 3 HU 421 Great Books Seminar I 3 LN 321 Hebrew I 3 HU 422 Great Books Seminar II 3 LN 322 Hebrew II 3 MA --- Math Elective 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3* PH 103 Introduction to Philosophy 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3* PH 108 Worldview Analysis 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3* PH 311 Introduction to Ethics 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3* PH 321 Religion in the Public Square 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3* PS 101 Introduction to Psychology 3 25100 Introduction to Church History I 3* PS 221 Marriage and the Family 3 25120 Introduction to Church History II 3* 26100 History of the Baptists 3* Ministry Studies 21 27060 Systematic Theology I 3* CN 101 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3* Male Students 27080 Systematic Theology III 3* PR 205 Preaching I 3 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis 3* PR 206 Preaching II 3 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3* Female Students SP 105 Introduction to Pubic Speaking 3 General Electives 9 SP 106 Advanced Public Speaking 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3* Total Degree 120 Hours 32100 Personal Evangelism 3* 40301 Pastoral Ministry (men) 3* ADDITIONAL MASTERS LEVEL COURSES Women. Substitute WS 211, (to complete331, M.Div.340, requirements) 417; CE 238, 348, 363; or 40150 40080Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3* 44910 Applied Ministry: Theology 1 ------Free Electives 24

Prerequisite: CP 100 Cooperative Program 2

*Indicates courses earned in-class for masters credit and by subsequent credit-by-examination testing for undergraduate credit

Note: Admission to the concurrent Master of Divinity from Southern Seminary is not guaranteed by entrance into Boyce College, and is based on an academic and character evaluation and the end of the first year of undergraduate study.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 61 Master of Arts in Theological Studies

The Master of Arts in Theological Studies is designed Vocational Objectives to offer ministry training for those persons who are • For laypersons only not preparing for a professional ministry vocation. The purpose of this degree is to provide biblical, theological, Learning Outcomes historical, and practical training for laypersons who desire • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global to be better equipped to do ministry in the local church. vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3

Scripture and Interpretation (15 hours) Ministry and Proclamation (6 hours) 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 Free elective 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 Total Master of Arts in Theological Studies Theology and Tradition (18 hours) Requirements 48 25100 Introduction to Church History I 3 • Written Communication+2 (if required) 25120 Introduction to Church History II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Worldview and Culture (6 hours) uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

page 62 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Diploma Program Diploma in Theological Studies A Diploma in Theological Studies program is offered Diploma in Theology for students who cannot enroll in a master’s degree A Diploma in Theology program is offered for students program because they do not have a baccalaureate who cannot enroll in a master’s degree program because degree. Candidates must be at least 30 years of age to be they do not have a baccalaureate degree. Candidates admitted to the Diploma in Theological Studies program. must be at least 30 years of age to be admitted to the To graduate with a Diploma in Theological Studies, the Diploma in Theology program. student must complete the requirements for the Master Up to twelve semester hours of transfer credit can be of Arts in Theological Studies. Diploma students may applied to the Diploma in Theology program. Those credit request admittance to a master’s program in accordance hours must have been taken through Seminary Extension with the Transfer of Degree Program policy (See section (a ministry education system of the six theological in Academic Information). seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention) or Boyce College. See Transfer of Credit Policy in Academic Section. To graduate with a Diploma in Theology, the Learning Outcomes student must complete the requirements for any one • Students will be able to understand the Christian of the Master of Divinity curricular concentrations with worldview and have a global vision for fulfilling the the exception of the language requirement of Hebrew Great Commission. and Greek, and must earn a minimum of 85 credit hours. • Students will be able to demonstrate significant Diploma students may request admittance to a master’s knowledge of the Bible, interpret Scripture’s original program in accordance with the Transfer of Degree meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary Program policy (See section in Academic Information). situations. • Students will be able to integrate systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. Learning Outcomes • Students will be able to demonstrate a growing, Christ- like character and a sense of God’s calling to ministry. • Students will be able to understand the Christian worldview and have a global vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. • demonstrate significant knowledge of the Bible, interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary situations. • Students will be able to integrate systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Students will be able to display a biblical vision for ministry and lead with humble authority. • Students will be able to preach/teach Scripture clearly and passionately so as to engage the mind and move the heart.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 63 Director of Professional Doctoral Studies will recommend Policies for Doctor of the prospectus to the Associate Vice President for Ministry Programs Doctoral Studies for recommendation to the faculty for final approval. Once the prospectus is approved, the Overview of Doctor of Ministry student engages in simultaneous research and practice Programs to conduct the project. The results of the project are The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree is an advanced compiled in written form per specific guidelines. After professional doctorate degree in ministry. The purpose the project paper has been written, the student must of this program of study is to equip persons who are successfully defend the project in an oral exam before committed to a Christian vocation for a high level of a committee of two persons. This committee includes excellence in the practice of ministry. the faculty supervisor and the professor of the project The distinctive features of the Doctor of Ministry methodology course or a second professor selected by degree program include: the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies. •Participation in academic seminars •A written research project that is related to the student’s Research Thesis ministry setting The research thesis (course 80720) is an option for •An oral defense of the written project Professional Doctoral students with exceptional In the School of Theology, the degree is offered in the research and writing skills. This option differs from the following distinct areas: ministry project in that it is a 125-150 page work driven • Applied Apologetics by literary research towards the development and • Applied Theology validation of a thesis statement applied to the broader • Biblical Spirituality church rather than a practical project geared towards • Biblical Theology a local ministry setting. Permission must be granted to • Christian Ethics present a research thesis in place of a ministry research • Expository Preaching project by submitting the following items: a Research Thesis Request Form; a 10-15 page exemplary research Contextualized Writing Seminars paper; and a 1 page abstract that includes the title, Contextualized Writing Seminars are designed so as to thesis statement, and general direction of the work. The allow students to work toward the completion of their Office of Professional Doctoral Studies and the potential project while in seminars. This should allow students to supervisor will review these documents and determine write and receive approval for chapters 1-3 by the time whether the thesis request will be approved or denied. he/she has completed their seminars and be on track to If approved, the student will write a thesis proposal in graduate in 36 months. In view of this goal, students will course 80600 and submit it to the Professional Doctoral register for Contextualized Writing Seminar (80710) in Office and the supervisor for approval. Once these parties each of their first four semesters in the program. This is have accepted the proposal, the Director of Professional a graded course which has fixed submission deadlines Doctoral Studies will recommend it to the Associate Vice and for which the student must receive at least a B-. The President for Doctoral Studies for recommendation to outline below will briefly describe what each semester’s the faculty for approval. The student then engages in Contextualized Writing Seminar work will entail. (See research and writing to complete the thesis. Upon its appendix 3 for the complete Contextualized Writing completion, the student will defend the thesis before Seminar syllabus) a committee of the faculty supervisor and a second Project Methodology professor approved by the Director of Professional Students are required to complete one project Doctoral Studies. methodology course, for a total of 2 credit hours: Communities of Learning • 80600 Project Methodology...... 1 Students are part of a community of learning that helps Course 80600 is attached to the third foundational to foster collegiality and facilitate an open and effective seminar. learning atmosphere. • 80610 Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 Faculty Supervision Ministry Research Project Students receive program advising from the Office The ministry research project, a written report of 100-125 of Professional Doctoral Studies throughout the (+/–10%) pages (course 80700), is the culmination of the entire program of study. Upon completion of Project program of study. Through the project, the student has Methodology (80600), the student is assigned to a faculty the opportunity to apply professional knowledge and supervisor. The supervisor is responsible for guiding the documented research into the context of ministry. The student’s progress through the Ministry Research Project entire project is supervised by a committee composed or Research Thesis. of the faculty supervisor and the professor who taught course 80600. Prior to beginning the ministry research Registration project, the student must secure approval of a proposal. Students accepted into the Doctor of Educational To secure approval, the student must submit a project Ministry program must register for their first seminar no prospectus to the two-person committee mentioned later than one year after acceptance to the program. above. Once this committee approves the prospectus, the After initial registration, a student is expected to register page 64 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 for seminars every term and for Contextualized Writing seminars for the first four semesters. Doctor of Ministry Program Unforeseen circumstances do at times require that Descriptions and Requirements students temporarily halt their studies. Any interruptions in study, however, are strongly discouraged. Students who must take some time off from the program of study Doctor of Ministry—Applied Theology The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration must request permission for “Interrupted Status” from the in Applied Theology is designed to equip pastors and Office of Professional Doctoral Studies at least one month other church leaders in the practice of theology within prior to the first day of classes in the semester. the context of local church ministry. This program of Length of Time Allowed study will meet the needs of those persons who want Students in the program are expected to pursue their to engage in the classical disciplines of theology. It is degree concurrently with full-time vocational involvement a non-resident degree program that is intended for in ministry. Students should expect to complete the ministry professionals who desire further education but program within three years. If a student takes longer who simultaneously wish to remain on the field of service than three years to complete the program, a continuation where God has placed them. fee will be charged each semester beyond the initial Curriculum Plan six semesters (3 years). Under no circumstances shall a The program of study consists of four areas: student extend the time of completion beyond six years • Foundational seminars: 16 hours (note that interrupted status will count against the six • Contextualized Writing Seminar: 8 hours year maximum). • Project methodology: 2 hours Minimum Grade Point • Ministry research project: 6 hours For each component of the program, a student must Total D.Min. credit hours: 32 receive a minimum grade of “B–” (2.7 on a 4.0 scale). If a Foundational Seminars student receives a grade that is lower than a “B–” on any Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 individual component, that component must be repeated. credit hours, are required: Furthermore, that student is placed on probation. If a • 80471 Biblical and Systematic Theology In the student receives two successive grades that are lower than Local Church...... 4 a “B–” the student will be terminated from the program. • 80472 Ecclesiology and the Local Church...... 4 • 80473 Historical Theology in the Local Church...... 4 Attendance • 80474 Practical Theology in the Local Church...... 4 Due to the accelerated nature of the program, attendance These seminars are not taken concurrently and may is required at every session for the entire duration of the be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the foundational seminars. Absence from any portion of any seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. foundational seminar will necessitate retaking that seminar. Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or Class participation will affect the student’s final grade. summer term. A student also can enroll in the seminars Assignments when they are offered at selected extension sites. The nature of all seminars mandate that all assignments Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are be completed on time, including any assignments to be required to complete a significant amount of work (such completed before or after the seminar meets on campus. as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing Failure to complete any work will result in a significant written assignments). grade deduction. Faculty will work with students to maintain a submission schedule for all assignments. Doctor of Ministry— Biblical Spirituality Learning Outcomes The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in • Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced Biblical Spirituality is designed to equip pastors and understanding and integration of ministry into various other church leaders in the theology and practice of theological disciplines. biblical spirituality. The program of study emphasizes • Students will be able to demonstrate applied knowledge biblical spirituality in both its personal and interpersonal & skills pertinent to his/her vocational ministry. expressions, and examines this from both an historical • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use and contemporary perspective. The degree is a non- standard research tools and methods in the chosen field resident program for Christian leaders interested in of study. doctoral-level education without becoming full-time • Students will be able to research, plan, and implement students on campus, and who expect to apply their a project relevant to his/her vocational ministry and to education primarily in field ministry rather than an communicate the plan and its results effectively. academic environment. • Students will be able to contribute to the understanding and practice of ministry through the completion of Curriculum Plan a written project report suitable for inclusion in the The program of study consists of four areas: seminary library. • Foundational seminars: 16 hours • Contextualized Writing Seminar: 8 hours

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 65 • Project methodology: 2 hours • 80231 New Testament Theology...... 4 • Ministry research project: 6 hours • 80232 Use of the Old Testament in the Old Testament...... 4 Total D.Min. credit hours: 32 • 80233 Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament.... 4 These seminars are not taken concurrently and may Foundational Seminars be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. credit hours, are required: Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or • 80911 Introduction to Biblical Spirituality...... 4 summer term. A student also can enroll in the seminars • 80912 Christian Classics...... 4 when they are offered at selected extension sites. • 80913 Biblical Spirituality in the Local Church...... 4 Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are • 80914 Spiritual Awakening and Revival...... 4 required to complete a significant amount of work (such These seminars are not taken concurrently and may as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the written assignments). seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or Doctor of Ministry— summer term. Also, a student can enroll in the seminars Expository Preaching offered at selected extension sites. The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are Expository Preaching is designed to equip pastors and required to complete a significant amount of work (such other church leaders in the skills of sermon preparation as reading a minimum of 2500 pages, plus completing and public exposition of Scripture. This program of study written assignments). will meet the needs of those persons who want to engage in the classical disciplines of biblical interpretation, Doctor of Ministry—Biblical Theology theological reflection, and sermon preparation. It is a Biblical theology is vital for understanding the Scriptures non-resident degree program that is intended for ministry of the Old and New Testament. The D.Min. concentration professionals who desire further education but who in biblical theology at Southern will equip pastors and simultaneously wish to remain on the field of service ministry leaders to understand the Bible in accordance where God has placed them. with the intentions of its Spirit-inspired human authors. Jesus taught the authors of the New Testament how to Curriculum Plan understand the Old Testament, and Jesus himself learned The program of study consists of four areas: to understand the Old Testament from the way the Old • Foundational seminars...... 16 hours Testament Prophets interpreted Moses. Our aim is to • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 hours understand and embrace the interpretive perspective • Project methodology...... 2 hours that is reflected in the writings of the Old and New • Ministry research project...... 6 hours Testaments, the interpretive perspective Jesus taught Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 hours his followers. This is what it means to pursue Christian interpretation of the Bible. Foundational Seminars Our aim is to build on the foundation laid in the Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 student’s Master of Divinity program by strengthening credit hours, are required: the student’s skill in the biblical languages and in putting • 80311 Leadership Through Proclamation...... 4 the whole Bible together for the purpose of expository • 80312 Expository Preaching and the preaching that declares the whole counsel of God. To this Old Testament ...... 4 end we will pursue a course of instruction that includes • 80313 Expository Preaching and the review of Greek and Hebrew, along with overviews of New Testament...... 4 Old and New Testament Theology and the way the • 80314 Methods and Models of biblical authors interpret earlier Scripture. The written Expository Preaching...... 4 project that will serve as the capstone of this degree will These seminars are not taken concurrently and may be a biblical theological sermon series, manuscripts of be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the sermons that set the biblical text being preached in the seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. context of the Bible’s big story and themes. Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or summer term. A student also can enroll in the seminars Curriculum Plan when they are offered at selected extension sites. • Foundational seminars: 16 hours Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are • Contextualized Writing Seminar: 8 hours required to complete a significant amount of work (such • Research Project and Methodology: 8 hours as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing Total D.Min. credit hours: 32 written assignments). Foundational Seminars Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 Policies for credit hours, are required: Research Doctoral Studies • 80110 Hebrew Review...... 0 • 80115 Greek Review...... 0 Overview of • 80230 Old Testament Theology...... 4 Research Doctoral Programs page 66 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Research doctoral programs in the School of Theology The Research Th.M. is designed for students interested in are designed to give students of superior ability pursuing further studies, most likely a Ph.D. The Research an opportunity to prepare themselves thoroughly Th.M. provides the opportunity to broaden and deepen for effective leadership in Christian thought and the student’s knowledge in an area of concentration and life, especially for pastors and teachers of Christian to produce a significant research paper (thesis), which truth. The Master of Theology (Th.M.) and Doctor of will be an important step in pursuing further studies. The Philosophy (Ph.D.) programs are designed to prepare Research Th.M. is designed as a three-semester course students for advanced Christian scholarship and the of study. The coursework consists of 26 credit hours, application of scholarship to ministry. which come from 2 introductory courses (Foundations for Theological Studies and Graduate Research Seminar), 3 Areas of Study advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses, 2 Ph.D. seminars, and the Scripture and Interpretation writing of a master’s level thesis. Old Testament The Research Th.M. concentrations are: Biblical New Testament Theology; Biblical Studies; Church History; Missions & Biblical Studies (studies in both Testaments with Evangelism; New Testament; Old Testament; Philosophy, emphasis on the biblical languages) Worldview, & Apologetics; Practical Theology; and Biblical Theology Systematic Theology. Both of the Ph.D. seminars and two of the three Th.M. courses must be taken within the Theology and Tradition concentration area in which the Th.M. is being earned. Church History and Historical Theology Systematic Theology Program Requirements Ministry Th.M. Worldview and Culture • Graduate Research Seminar (81020)...... 2 hours Christian Philosophy • Foundations for Theological Study (81260)...... 2 hours Christian Ethics • Adv M.Div./Th.M. level courses Christian Apologetics and Worldview Studies (5 × 4 hours each)...... 20 hours Christianity and the Arts Total program credit hours...... 24 hours

Ministry and Proclamation *Up to 2 advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses can be taken Christian Preaching online (8 credit hours) Pastoral Theology Biblical Spirituality Research Th.M. • Graduate Research Seminar (81020)...... 2 hours Research Doctoral Program • Foundations for Theological Study (81260)...... 2 hours • Adv M.Div./Th.M. level courses Descriptions and Requirements (3 × 4 hours each)...... 12 hours Master of Theology (Th.M.) Program • Ph.D. seminars (2 × 4 hours each)...... 8 hours TheThe Master of Theology is a 24-26 hour degree that • Thesis Research (81050)...... 1 hour allows students to engage in intensive study that goes • Thesis Writing (81060)...... 1 hour beyond the M.Div. level. The goal is to acquaint students Total program credit hours...... 26 hours with resources and research methods for a major area of study and offer focused time for reflection in preparation *Up to 2 advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses can be taken for ministry or advanced scholarship. online (8 credit hours) Th.M. Tracks Learning Outcomes There are two different tracks available within the Th.M. • The student will be able to plan research in an area of program — Ministry Th.M. and Research Th.M. specialization and, where appropriate, will relate the The Ministry Th.M. is designed for students interested in work to the larger context of theological study. furthering their M.Div. studies but who are not necessarily • The student will be able to conduct research using planning to do advanced studies beyond the Th.M degree. standard scholarly tools and methods. Ministry Th.M. coursework consists of 24 credit hours, • The student will be able to communicate the results of which come from 2 introductory courses (Foundations his/her research effectively. for Theological Studies and Graduate Research Seminar) • The student will be able to demonstrate an advanced plus 5 advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses. The Ministry Th.M. understanding of an area of specialization. is designed to cover broader categories of study than the Research Th.M. Thesis Research Th.M. or Ph.D., enabling the student to round The Research Th.M. Thesis requires the student to out their M.Div. education in preparation for ministry. The produce a significant research and writing project Ministry Th.M. concentrations are: Biblical Theology & consisting of 12,000 – 15,000 words in length, written Exegesis; Missions & Evangelism; Philosophy, Worldview, under the supervision of a Th.M. Advisor. & Apologetics; Practical Theology; and Theological & Historical Studies. Grading Policy The minimum passing grade in any course taken for Th.M.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 67 credit is a “B-“ (2.7 on a 4.0 scale). A student who earns a • Theological & Historical Studies grade lower than a “B-“ will lose credit for that course and will be placed on academic probation. The student may * These concentrations are offered in a modular format. also be subject to an enrollment review. The Ph.D. course of study consists of several aspects: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Program Seminars; Colloquia; Guided Mentorship; Research The Ph.D. is the highest degree offered in North Languages and/or Research Methodology; General America. Building on a long heritage at Southern, this Education Courses (Foundations for Theological program equips students for advanced scholarship, Study; Graduate Research Seminar; Teaching in effective teaching, and missional service in the church Higher Education Contexts); Comprehensive Exams; and academy. The program is intended to qualify Prospectus Hearing; and a Dissertation. Per approval graduates for college or seminary teaching. It may also some coursework can be completed through be used to equip students for the pastorate and other Independent Study, either at Southern or through church-related ministries. another approved institution. Curriculum For most of the areas of concentration students will The Ph.D. program is built on three distinct stages take 5 seminars in their Major and 3 in the Minor. (Some through which the student will advance: Th.M. Stage, concentrations require 4 and 4, respectively.) For most Ph.D. Stage, and Ph.D. Candidacy. areas of concentration students will take 4 colloquia in Due to the rigor and structured format of the Ph.D. their field as well as the Guided Mentorship class. All program, students will earn a Th.M. in a related field in students will take the FTS, GRS, and THEC classes (with route to earning the Ph.D. the exception of the THEC class for Higher Education Students will begin the program under the guidance majors). All students will take comprehensive exams that of an assigned Advisor. Upon successful completion of cover both their Major and Minor, including proficiency the first stage of the program they will be assigned their in biblical languages where required. All students will official Ph.D. supervisor who will guide them through the be required to present and defend their dissertation rest of the program. proposal prospectus during a scheduled departmental The Ph.D. can be earned in several different areas colloquium. All students will write a dissertation that of concentration, which at times have slight variations demonstrates the ability to conduct and report on in requirements based on the field of study. The Ph.D. original research. All students will be required to program consists of a Major area of concentration and demonstrate proficiency in research languages and/ a Minor area, the latter of which will be the focus on the or research methodology courses (Statistics; Research earned Th.M. degree during the first stage of the program. Methodology; Empirical Research.) For variations on these requirements please refer to the Major Concentrations current Ph.D. Student Handbook. • Apologetics & Worldview* • Applied Apologetics* Program Requirements • Biblical Counseling* For most Ph.D. areas of concentration the program will • Biblical Spirituality* consist of the following requirements: • Biblical Studies • Graduate Research Seminar (81020)...... 2 hours • Biblical Theology • Foundations for Theological Study (81260)...... 2 hours • Christian Ethics* • Teaching in Higher Ed Contexts (81250)...... 4 hours • Christian Missions* • Major Area Colloquia ...... 8 hours • Christian Philosophy* • Ph.D. seminars in Major (5 × 4 hours each)...... 20 hours • Christian Preaching* • Ph.D. seminar in Minor (3 × 4 hours each)...... 12 hours • Christian Worship* • Research Languages/Research Methodology...... 4 hours • Christianity and the Arts* • Guided Mentorship...... 1 hour • Church History & Historical Theology • Prospectus Hearing...... 1 hour • Evangelism & Church Growth* • Comprehensive Exams...... 1 hour • Higher Education* • Dissertation Writing and Defense...... 16 hours • Leadership* Total program credit hours...... 71 hours • New Testament Learning Outcomes • Old Testament • Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough • Pastoral Theology* acquaintance with literature in area of specialization • Systematic Theology and the ability to engage critically and productively in • World Religions* this area. * These concentrations are offered in a modular format. • Students will be able to demonstrate conversance Minor Concentrations with the literature in the general field of study and • Biblical Theology & Exegesis fields closely related to the areas of specialization. • Missions & Evangelism* • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use • Practical Theology* standard research tools and methods in the chosen • Philosophy, Worldview, & Apologetics* field of study. page 68 | School of Theology SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 • Students will be able to plan and conduct research in the area of specialization and to communicate its results effectively. • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the role of the professor inside and outside the classroom in institutions of Christian higher education.

Grading Policy The minimum passing grade in any course taken for Ph.D. credit is a “B“ (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). A student who earns a grade lower than a “B“ will lose credit for that course and will be placed on academic probation. The student may also be subject to an enrollment review.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 School of Theology | page 69 Billy Graham School of Missions, EvangelismAdmissions and Ministry

Faculty • Introduction • Masters’ Programs • Doctoral Programs “The Billy Graham School equips God-called individuals for theologically- grounded and skillfully-practiced service as pastors, missionaries, evangelists, church planters, biblical counselors, worship leaders, and local church ministry roles.” Administration Faculty Dean: Adam W. Greenway, Ph.D. Department of Evangelism Associate Dean: and Missions Timothy K. Beougher, Ph.D. Timothy K. Beougher Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth (1996); Associate Dean Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry Adam W. Greenway Dean of the Billy Graham School of B.S., Kansas State University; M.Div., Missions, Evangelism ­and Ministry; Southwestern Baptist Theological William Walker Brookes Associate Seminary; Th.M., Ph.D., Trinity Professor of Evangelism and Applied Evangelical Divinity School Apologetics (2007)

Prior to coming to Southern, Dr. Beougher served as B.A., Samford University; M.Div., the Associate Director of the Billy Graham Institute Southwestern Baptist Theological of Evangelism at Wheaton College, and as Assistant Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Professor of Evangelism at Wheaton Graduate School. Theological Seminary He is the author of Richard Baxter and Conversion,

Accounts of a Campus Revival: Wheaton College 1995, Dr. Greenway has served as pastor and/or interim pastor Evangelism for a Changing World, Disciplemaking: of churches in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Training Leaders to Make Disciples and Overcoming Florida. Active in denominational life and leadership, he Walls to Witnessing. He is married to Sharon and they is the Parliamentarian as well as a Past President of the have five children and seven grandchildren. Kentucky Baptist Convention, and is a former trustee and Chairman of the Board of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Greenway is Adam W. Greenway a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the William Walker Brookes Associate Evangelical Philosophical Society, the International Society Professor of Evangelism and Applied of Christian Apologetics, and is a former President of the Apologetics (2007); Dean of the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. He is Billy Graham School of Missions, co-editor of Evangelicals Engaging Emergent and The Great Evangelism ­and Ministry Commission Resurgence, and has contributed articles to various books and journals. B.A., Samford University; M.Div., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Greenway has served as pastor and/or interim pastor of churches in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Florida. Active in denominational life and leadership, he is the Parliamentarian as well as a Past President of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, and is a former trustee and Chairman of the Board of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Greenway is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the International Society of Christian Apologetics, and is a former President of the page 70 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. He is Zane G. Pratt co-editor of Evangelicals Engaging Emergent and The Great Associate Professor of Christian Commission Resurgence, and has contributed articles to Missions (2011) various books and journals. B.A., Duke University; M.Div., Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary; Ph.D. Ayman Ibrahim (candidate), Southeastern Baptist Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Theological Seminary (2015); Senior Fellow, Jenkins Center

for the Christian Understaning of Islam

Professor Pratt served as a church planter and pastor in B.A., Ain Shams University; M.A., New England and as an Army Reserve chaplain before Southwestern Baptist Theological appointment for overseas service in 1991. He lived and Seminary; Ph.D., Fuller Theological worked in Central Asia from then until 2011, during the Seminary; Ph.D. (candidate), last 10 years of which he served in the regional leadership University of Haifa role. He has written multiple articles in Theology and

Practice of Mission and co-author of Introduction to Dr. Ibrahim was born and raised in Egypt. Since 1991, he Global Missions. In addition to his service at Southern has taught in various countries in the Muslim world and Seminary, Professor Pratt is Global Theological Education in the West at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Team Leader for the International Mission Board. He is He has taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological married to Catherine and they have two children. Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary in the United States and at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, Lebanon. Some of the courses he has taught M. David Sills include: Introduction to Islam; Emergence and Historical A. P. and Faye Stone Professor Development of Islam; Islamic Texts (Quran, Hadith and of Christian Missions and Cultural Tafsir); and Quranic Arabic: Exegeting Islam's Scripture. Anthropology (2003) He is a member of the Center for the Study of Inter- Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University of the B.A., Belhaven College; M.Div., Negev; the Society of Biblical Literature; the International New Orleans Baptist Theological Quranic Studies Association; and the Department of Seminary; D.Miss., Ph.D., Reformed Middle Eastern History at Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Theological Seminary Israel. He has been married to Emily since 2012 and together, they serve among Arabs in the United States and the Middle East. Dr. Sills has served in leadership training and seminary ministry that has taken him around the world over the past twenty five years. He has planted and pastored George H. Martin churches in both the United States and Ecuador, and Professor of Christian Missions is the author of The Missionary Call, Reaching and and World Religions (1996); Chair, Teaching, and co-author of Introduction to Global Department of Evangelism and Missions, as well as several books in Spanish He and Missions; Editor, The Southern Baptist his wife, Mary, have been married for over thirty years Journal of Missions and Evangelism and have two married children and four grandchildren. David and Mary’s children and their spouses are all B.S., Florida State University; M.Div., graduates of Southern Seminary. Ph.D., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Additional Studies: Asbury Theological Seminary

Dr. Martin served and taught in the Pacific Rim from 1988 to 1994. He was professor and academic dean at the Jakarta Baptist Theological Seminary and he has also served as a professor at the Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary. He was Associate Professor of Religion at North Greenville University before joining the faculty at Southern. Dr. Martin is a member of the Evangelical Missiological Society, Evangelical Theological Society, and American Society of Missiology.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 71 Department of Biblical Worship Academy of Sacred Music concert forum. She has contributed to Grove Dictionary of American Music Gregory B. Brewton (2nd ed., Oxford) and Wonderful Words of Life: Carolyn King Ragan Associate Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology, Professor of Church Music and and has won the Kentuckiana Metroversity Award Worship (2002); Chair, Department of for Instructional Development. She and her husband Biblical Worship Robert have two daughters. B.M.E., Stetson University; M.C.M., D.M.M., The Southern Baptist Charles T. Lewis Jr. Theological Seminary Assistant Professor of Church Music and Worship (2011)

Dr. Greg Brewton brings to Southern Seminary over thirty B.ME., University of South Carolina; years of music and worship ministry experience in the M.ME., Florida State University; M.CM., local church having served churches in Georgia, Florida Southwestern Baptist Theological and Kentucky. Dr. Brewton began his work at Southern Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Seminary in 2002 as the Coordinator for Music Studies at Theological Seminary Boyce College. More recently he has served as Associate Dean in the School of Church Ministries, Division of Dr. Lewis has most recently served as the Worship Biblical Worship. His blog site is www.biblicalworship. Pastor of the First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach, com. Dr. Brewton travels with the Boyce Vocal Band Florida from 2003-2011. He also served as the Worship throughout the year and is active at Ninth and O Baptist and Creative Arts Pastor at Celebration Baptist Church Church in Louisville. He and his wife, Holly, have two in Tallahassee, Florida from 2000-2003. He served as grown children, Allison and Justin. Associate Minister of Music and Worship at the First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach from 1993-2000.

Joseph R. Crider Ernest and Mildred Hogan Professor of Church Music and Worship (2011); Department of Biblical Counseling and Executive Director, Institute for Biblical Family Ministry Worship Eric L. Johnson Lawrence and Charlotte Hoover B.A., M.A., Bowling Green State Professor of Pastoral Care (2000) University; D.A., University of Northern Colorado B.Th., Toronto Baptist Seminary; M.A.C.S., Calvin College; M.A., Dr. Joseph Crider joined the faculty of Southern Seminary Ph.D., Michigan State University in 2011. Before coming to SBTS, Crider served as the Minister of Music and Worship at First Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia, and as a Professor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Dr. Crider has been active as a worship leader for 20 years and as a clinician and speaker Before coming to Southern, Dr. Johnson taught courses throughout the United States. He and his wife Amy have at Northwestern College in Minnesota for nine years. been married for since 1985 and have four children; He has contributed numerous articles in the field of Julianna, Katrina, Cole and Amelia. Christian psychology. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, and in 1998 he was editor for a special issue of the Journal of Psychology Esther R. Crookshank and Christianity, entitled “Psychology within the Ollie Hale Chiles Professor of Church Christian Tradition.” He authored articles for the Baker Music (2004); Director, Academy of Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling and has Sacred Music co-edited and contributed to Christianity and Psychology: Five Views and God Under Fire: Modern Scholarship B.M., Baldwin-Wallace College; M.A., Reinvents God. He also wrote Foundations for Soul Care: Ph.D., The University of Michigan A Christian Psychology Proposal.

Dr. Crookshank serves as Ollie Hale Chiles Professor of Church Music teaching hymnology, musicology, ethnomusicology, and strings, and is Director of the page 72 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Timothy Paul Jones Randy L. Stinson C. Edwin Gheens Professor of Professor of Leadership and Christian Family Ministry (2007); Family Ministry (2006); Senior Associate Vice President for the Vice President for Academic Global Campus; Editor, The Journal of Administration and Provost Discipleship and Family Ministry B.A., University of South Florida; M.Div., B.A., Manhattan Christian College; Southeastern Baptist Theological M.Div., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Th.M., Ph.D., The Southern Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Baptist Theological Seminary Theological Seminary Dr. Stinson is a recognized authority on the subject of Dr. Jones oversees the Global Campus and teaches in biblical manhood and womanhood and has served as a the areas of family ministry and apologetics. Before senior pastor as well as other church staff positions. He coming to Southern, he led churches in Missouri and is the co-author of Field Guide for Biblical Manhood and Oklahoma as pastor and associate pastor. Dr. Jones co-editor of Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry has received the Scholastic Recognition Award and has in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective. In authored or contributed to more than a dozen books, addition, Dr. Stinson serves as the Senior Fellow for The including Conspiracies and the Cross; Perspectives on Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. He and Family Ministry; and, Christian History Made Easy. In his wife, Danna, have been married since 1991 and have 2010, Christian Retailing magazine selected Christian eight children: Gunnar, Georgia, Fisher, Eden, Payton, History Made Easy as the book of the year in the field Brewer, Spencer, and Willa. of Christian education. He is married to Rayann and they have three daughters. The Jones family serves in children’s ministry at Sojourn Community Church. Department of Leadership and Discipleship Jeremy P. Pierre Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling (2011); Dean of Students Dan S. Dumas Professor of Christian Ministry B.A., Cedarville University; M.A., and Leadership (2013); Senior Cleveland State University; M.Div., Vice President for Institutional Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Administration; Executive Director, The Theological Seminary Center for Christian Preaching

B.A., Criswell College; M.Div., The Dr. Pierre joined the Southern faculty in 2011 after serving Master’s Seminary for eight years on the faculty of Boyce College as a professor of literature and culture. He also serves as Dean Mr. Dumas became the Senior Vice President of of Students and directs the Ph.D. program in Biblical Institutional Administration at Southern Seminary Counseling. Dr. Pierre is co-author of the forthcoming in October of 2007. At Grace Community Church in book Pastoral Counseling: The Basics of Shepherding California he was an Executive Pastor for four years and Members in Need (Crossway) and has contributed to pastor of the Cornerstone Fellowship Group for five years. various other books, including Christ-Centered Biblical Also, Mr. Dumas has served as college and singles pastor Counseling and Scripture and Counseling. He currently at the Westside Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, serves as a pastor at Clifton Baptist Church and is a at Cottage Hill Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, and speaker at various engagements in the U.S. and overseas. at Victory Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Previously, He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society he served on staff at the historic First Baptist Church of and serves as a council member of the Biblical Counseling Dallas. Dumas is a veteran of the United States Navy. Coalition. He and his wife, Sarah, raise their five children in Louisville, Kentucky.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 73 Brian C. Richardson pastor in Missouri and Kentucky. He continues to serve Basil Manly Jr. Professor of Leadership as pastor of the First Gethsemane Baptist Church in and Discipleship (1996); Chair, Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Walker is a frequent speaker in Department of Leadership and revivals and at conferences on Black Church leadership, Discipleship ministry evangelism, and marriage & family issues among other things. He has contributed to numerous journals and B.A., Campbell University; M.A., Ph.D., periodicals. His Black Church Leadership doctoral programs Southwestern Baptist Theological are the first in the SBC. He and his wife, Dr. Cheryl D. Walker, Seminary; Additional Studies: have been married for over thirty years and have three living Chattanooga State University, University children (two married) and five grandchildren. of Tennessee College of Medicine

Michael S. Wilder Dr. Richardson has served in church staff positions J. M. Frost Associate Professor and as a nationally known convention speaker, as of Leadership and Discipleship President of the North American Professors of Christian (2006); Associate Vice President Education, and was a founder of the Youth Ministry for Doctoral Studies Educators’ Forum. Dr. Richardson is listed in “Who’s Who in American Education,” “Who’s Who in Religion,” B.B.A., Clayton State College; M.Div., and “Outstanding Educators in America.” He was the New Orleans Baptist Theological founding editor of the Journal of Christian Education and Seminary; Ph.D., The Southern Baptist has contributed to numerous books including Christian Theological Seminary Education: Foundations for the Future and Transforming

Youth Ministry. In addition to his ministry at Southern Dr. Wilder has more than 15 years of church-based Seminary, Dr. Richardson currently serves as pastor of ministry experience serving as a pastor in churches Covington Baptist Church. He and his wife, Sharon, have in Georgia and Kentucky. He is the co-author of three children, Rebecca, Deborah, and John. Transformission: Making Disciples through Short- term Missions and has contributed to books such as Christian Formation: Integrating Theology and Human John David Trentham Development; Perspectives on Your Child’s Education: Assistant Professor of Leadership and Four Views; Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry Discipleship (2013); Director of the in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective; and Doctor of Education program Mapping Out Curriculum in Your Church. He is currently working on a new book entitled The God Who Goes B.A., The University of Tennessee; Before You: A Biblical Theology of Leadership. Dr. Wilder M.A., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist has been married since 1994 and has three daughters. Theological Seminary

Distinguished Professors Dr. Trentham teaches in the areas of worldview, Kenneth S. Hemphill discipleship, and leadership. He is also the director of Distinguished Professor of Evangelism the Doctor of Education program, and a faculty advisor and Church Growth (2005) for Student Life. Before coming to Southern, he served for several years in vocational ministry as a pastor to B.A., Wake Forest University; young adults, missions pastor, and worship leader. He is M.Div., D.Min., The Southern Baptist currently an elder at New City Church, a church plant in Theological Seminary; Ph.D., east Louisville where he is a founding member along with Cambridge University his wife, Brittany. They have one son, Maddox.

T. Vaughn Walker WMU Professor of Christian Ministries Dr. Hemphill is the Founding Director of the Church (1996) and Professor of Black Church Planting and Revitalization Center of North Greenville Studies (1986) University. He has served in numerous ministry positions since 1968: pastor, interim pastor, youth/ B.S., Hampton University; education minister, President of Southwestern Baptist M.S., Eastern Illinois University; Theological Seminary from 1994 to 2003, and National M.Div./C.E., The Southern Baptist Strategist for Empowering Kingdom Growth from 2003- Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Oregon 2011. Dr. Hemphill is the author of 32 books and many State University articles. He is married to Paula, and they have three daughters and eight grandchildren. Dr. Walker is the first African American to join the faculty. He has over three decades of experience as a senior page 74 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Mary Kassian Adjunct Professor Distinguished Professor of Women’s J. Scott Bridger Studies (2005) William D. Henard III

B.S., University of Alberta; D.Th (candidate), University of South Africa Visiting Professors Heath B. Lambert Stuart W. Scott

Mary Kassian is an award-winning author and speaker who focuses on women’s ministry and issues. She has been involved in ministering to women for over 30 years and has taught women’s studies courses at numerous seminaries. Her publications include True Woman 101, Girls Gone Wise, The Feminist Mistake, Conversation Peace, In My Father’s House, and more. Mary and her husband, Brent, live in Edmonton, Canada. They have three grown sons, one of whom is married.

Thom S. Rainer Distinguished Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth (2006)

B.S., University of Alabama; M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Rainer was the founding dean of the Billy Graham School, a capacity in which he served until he was elected as President and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources in 2005. Prior to joining Southern Seminary, Dr. Rainer served as pastor of churches in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Indiana. Dr. Rainer has been a frequent church consultant and church growth conference speaker for many years. Dr. Rainer is the author or co-author of numerous books, including The Book of Church Growth: History, Theology, and Principles, Effective Evangelistic Churches, Surprising Insights from the Unchurched, The Unchurched Next Door, Breakout Churches, Simple Church, Transformational Church, Raising Dad, and I Am a Church Member, and Autopsy of a Deceased Church.

Retired Professors Elizabeth A. Bedsole Ronald E. Boud James D. Chancellor William R. Cromer Jr. Donald P. Hustad Sabin P. Landry Richard Lin Robert A. Proctor William B. Rogers Mozelle Clark Sherman Jay Wilkey Dennis E. Williams

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 75 Introduction Billy Graham School Goals The programs in the Billy Graham School are offered to Purpose equip qualified students for the practice of the Great The mission of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Commission and effective Christian ministry on mission Evangelism and Ministry is to equip God-called individuals fields and in local churches around the world. The goal of for theologically-grounded and skillfully-practiced the faculty is for every graduate: ministry as missionaries, evangelists, church planters. • To be a called disciple and minister of Jesus Christ, and pastoral roles in the local church. The wide spectrum serving His Kingdom within these Christian servants function necessitates • To possess an abiding love for people and the work of both comprehensive and highly specialized education. To Christian ministry in the context of the church meet the demand for comprehensiveness, students are • To bear witness to the complete truthfulness of Holy exposed to a nucleus of courses and seminars that will Scripture enable them to think theologically and to make practical • To integrate theological understandings with human application. To meet the demand for specialization, each need in the contemporary world student has the opportunity to focus his or her interests • To lead discipleship ministries that build up the whole in an area of specialized vocational preparation, including family in their spiritual growth missions, evangelism, church planting, discipleship, • To learn and do Great Commission ministries in the worship leadership, and family ministry. areas of missions, evangelism, and church growth The Billy Graham School seeks to serve and to lead • To maintain the historic principles of the Christian faith the denomination of which it is a part. While closely and of the Baptist heritage related to other academic and evangelical Christian • To demonstrate Christian commitment, maturity, communities, the focus of the Billy Graham School is integrity, and spirituality Christian ministry in Southern Baptist churches and on mission fields around the world. Our primary endeavor, therefore, is to develop leaders who understand and Policies for Master’s Level appreciate the programs and agencies of the Southern Programs Baptist Convention and are fully capable of contributing to the SBC through selfless service, academic research, Academic Advising Academic advising is offered for new students during and publication in these fields. orientation. Academic advising is also available during Overview of Academic Programs the year. Students may contact the Center for Student Academic programs in the Billy Graham School consist of Success. three types. The most basic professional programs designed to Transfer of Credit Students may receive transfer credit from accredited equip qualified students for the practice of ministry are graduate schools or seminaries. A faculty administrator the Diploma programs, the Master of Arts degrees, and from the Billy Graham School evaluates official transcripts the Master of Divinity degrees (see pages 116-126). and determines the number of hours that may be applied The professional doctoral programs, designed to equip toward the degree. ministry professionals for a high level of excellence in the Courses accepted for transfer credit must be similar practice of education and discipling ministries, Christian content and difficulty as a corresponding course at The leadership, church growth, and administration, are the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. No grade below Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Educational Ministry ‘C-’ from American institutions or ‘B-’ from international degrees (see pages 126-132). institutions will be accepted for transfer credit. The research doctoral programs are designed to qualfiy advanced students for research and teaching, as well as Field Education/Applied Ministry for other leadership positions. These research doctoral The Field Education/Applied Ministry program of the Billy programs include the Master of Theology, Doctor of Graham School challenges students to learn through the Missiology, Doctor of Education and Doctor of Philosophy practice of ministry while the are progressing through degrees (see pages 132-135). their degree program. The program is designed to These academic programs are offered through integrate field experience with classroom instruction and a variety of delivery formats to ensure viability includes the following requirements: of teaching methodology and provide optimum •A goal-oriented ministry process at an approved convenience for students. These delivery formats ministry site include: on-campus courses in semester format, •Reflections on personal ministry through the completion on-campus courses in week-long (J-term) format, of various assignments blended courses utilizing both on-campus instruction •A one-hour weekly field supervisory session with an and online learning, extension courses at one of our improved ministry supervisor 10 off-campus learning centers, online learning, and •Carefull attention to biblical, theological, and conference courses. Individual courses are offered practical resources in different formats based upon regular semester scheduling. Some course delivery options are not available for students in the doctoral programs. page 76 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Specifics of Field Education Course Selection have placement tests in music theory, ear training, sight Field education is required for all students in master’s singing, form and analysis, music history and literature, level programs. Students may select courses from the conducting, and orchestration. options given in the degree requirements section of their Students pursuing the Master of Church Music degree particular program of study. Field education or equivalent should have completed a 25-minute recital in his/her courses taken in excess of the stipulated field education applied area at college. The student may validate that requirements must be counted as elective credits. recital by furnishing the printed program of said recital or In the Billy Graham School, students will have the by submitting a letter of certification from an appropriate option of selecting field education internships (44930- college official. Any student who cannot present such 44945), as well as field education courses connected verification must enroll in pre-graduate applied studies with specific disciplines: Evangelism (44935), Missions until he/she successfully prepares a 25-minute recital. (44930), North American Church Planting (44940), A student with an undergraduate degree in music International Church Planting (44945), Worship must satisfy all pre-graduate requirements by (40693-40694), Leadership (45190-45193), and Youth successfully passing the placement examinations or by Ministries (46290-46293). M.Div. students in the Billy enrolling in the equivalent course during the first four Graham School also have the option of completing semesters of study. If a student is counseled to enroll the field education requirement through the Ministry in a pre-graduate course, he or she may not drop that Apprenticeship Program (MAP). This option utilizes course without permission from the music and worship ministry apprenticeships and integrative seminars in studies coordinator. either outreach or leadership to contribute six elective A student without an undergraduate degree in music hours to the student’s degree program. More information must satisfy all pre-graduate requirements by successfully can be obtained online at [email protected] passing the placement examinations or by enrolling in the equivalent course during the first four semesters of study. Enrollment Requirements Exceptions to these rules must be secured in writing from Students may take only one field education course (or its the Department of Biblical Worship. equivalent) in a single semester and it is recommended that they complete their field education requirements Minor Applied Area in their first six semesters of study. To enroll in any field Students enrolled in the Master of Church Music degree education course, the following is necessary: will have proficiency auditions in the minor area(s). For • Successful completion of 40150 Personal Spiritual voice students the minor applied area would be piano. Disciplines For instrumental students the applied minor area would • An approved title and ministry placement in an include piano and voice. Proficiency auditions will be approved church or agency, requiring a minimum five administered upon entrance into the school. Students not hours in ministry service per week able to pass the listed requirements must enroll in pre- • An approved field supervisor or supervisory committee graduate applied study in that particular area until the proficiency is passed. Policies for Master’s Level Students should be prepared to demonstrate Music Programs proficiency in these areas: Piano Proficiency Requirements for Placement Examinations and Voice Majors Auditions in Worship Leadership 1. Play all major scales, two octaves, hands together and Church Music using prescribed piano fingerings. There are three requirements for admission into the 2. Play all white key harmonic minor scales, two Worship Leadership and Church Music degree plans: octaves, hands together using prescribed piano 1. A bachelor’s degree fingerings. 2. An autobiographical essay explaining the student’s 3. Play hymns from an approved list of hymns calling to vocational music ministry and 4. Prepare one vocal solo accompaniment piece 3. A recommendation letter from the leadership of the 5. Prepare one piano offertory piece student’s home church. 6. Improvise a simple accompaniment of a worship While no examinations or auditions are required for song using a lead sheet (melody line with guitar chords) acceptance into music and worship degree programs in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, F, Bb, Eb. Lead sheets for the offered by the Billy Graham School, new students entering proficiency will be provided a week before the exam. worship leadership or church music degree programs must 7. Sightread two vocal lines together from a choral take the diagnostic placement examinations and auditions anthem. prior to their first semester of study. Piano Proficiency Requirements for Master of Church Music Placement Instrumental Majors Examinations and Auditions 1. Play all white key major scales, two octaves, hands Students interested in the Master of Church Music degree separately using prescribed piano fingerings. usually enter the program with an undergraduate degree 2. Play all white key harmonic minor scales, two octaves, in music. Students planning to pursue this degree will hands separately using prescribed piano fingerings.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 77 3. Play hymns from an approved list of hymns Worship Leadership Placement 4. Prepare one vocal solo accompaniment piece Examinations and Auditions 5. Prepare one piano offertory piece Students entering the Master of Divinity in Worship 6. Improvise a simple accompaniment of a worship Leadership or the Master of Arts in Worship Leadership song using a lead sheet (melody line with guitar chords) will have placement tests in music theory, ear training, in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, F, Bb, Eb. Lead sheets for the sight singing, and conducting. Worship Leadership proficiency will be provided a week before the exam. students are not required to have a 25-minute recital in 7. Sightread two vocal lines together from a college. choral anthem. If a student comes to the seminary without any Piano Proficiency Requirements for preparation in a certain area (such as music theory or conducting), he/she may choose not to take the Instrumental Majors placement examination in that area but rather to enroll 1. Play all white key major scales, two octaves, hands automatically in the respective pre-graduate course. separately using prescribed piano fingerings. Upon evaluation of the placement examinations, the 2. Play all white key harmonic minor scales, student may be required to take one or more of the two octaves, hands separately using prescribed following pre-graduate courses: piano fingerings. • Introduction to Conducting 3. Play hymns from an approved list of hymns (four • Music Theory l hymns required) • Aural Skills l 4. Improvise a simple accompaniment of a worship • Music Theory ll song using a lead sheet (melody line with guitar chords) • Aural Skills ll in the keys of C, G, D, F. Lead sheets for the proficiency • one or two semesters of pre-graduate applied studies will be provided a week before the exam. • two semesters of pre-graduate minor applied studies 5. Sightread one vocal line of a choral anthem. Worship Leadership students will be given a Voice Proficiency Requirements for proficiency exam in piano or guitar. Students may Piano and Instrumental Majors choose which instrument they would like to pursue for 1. The purpose of the voice proficiency is to determine their accompaniment proficiency. Students showing the student’s vocal ability to effectively lead worship deficiencies in this skill will enroll in coursework to and assist a choir or ensemble through demonstration prepare them for the proficiency exam. Students who are and participation. taking piano for their concentration will need to pass the 2. Students who pass the voice proficiency should voice proficiency. demonstrate healthy singing technique in the following areas: Piano Proficiency Requirements a. Pitch, rhythm and intonation 1. Play all white key major scales, two octaves, hands b. Diction with clear, articulate words separately using prescribed piano fingerings. c. Posture, breath management and support 2. Play all white key harmonic minor scales, two d. Musical expression octaves, hands separately using prescribed piano Service Playing Proficiency fingerings. 3. Play hymns from an approved list of hymns (four Requirements for Applied Major Piano hymns required) or Organ Students 4. Improvise a simple accompaniment of a worship 1. At sight, play a simple anthem accompaniment song using a lead sheet (melody line with guitar chords) (degree of difficulty to be determined by the keyboard in the keys of C, G, D, F. Lead sheets for the proficiency faculty). will be provided a week before the exam. 2. At sight, play a vocal score using G and F clefs on 5. Sightread one vocal line of a choral anthem. four staves (pedals not required for organ students). 3. Play a simple keyboard harmony passage from Guitar Proficiency Requirements a figured bass (for example, a continuo score of a Students should demonstrate a strong proficiency in recitative). accompanying hymns and songs on the guitar. The 4. Transpose any hymn in Baptist Hymnal (2008) into student should also be able to lead a rehearsal with the another key not more than a major second above or guitar. below the printed score. 1. Sing a hymn and a worship song of your choice while 5. Sight read a short passage of music (with clear, playing rhythm guitar as you would for congregational simple rhythm and style) and then continue to improvise singing. a few measures in the same style, coming to a full close in 2. Demonstrate the ability to play the soprano, alto, a related key. tenor or bass part from a four-part hymn. Octave 6. At sight, play any hymn in Baptist Hymnal (2008) in a transpositions are acceptable. style suitable for accompanying congregational singing. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of standard chord symbols, including inversions (D/F#, C/G, etc.) and various kinds of 7th chords (C7, Amaj7, etc. 4. Demonstrate the ability to provide chord changes for a standard printed hymn, as if you were to accompany a page 78 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 hymn or song on the guitar, but from music that does not must proofread the proof copy carefully and his or her have printed chord symbols. applied teacher and returned as soon as possible to the 5. Demonstrate the ability to provide congregational school office. accompaniment by various strumming and All public degree recitals will be recorded by the fingerpicking patterns. event production team. A copy of the recording will be 6. Demonstrate the ability to use a capo effectively. cataloged in the James P. Boyce Centennial Library. You will be asked to use the capo to accompany songs or hymns in the keys of B-flat, E-flat, A-flat, and others. Grading of the Recital Three faculty members grade each recital on a pass- Minimum Grade Point fail basis. A passing grade indicates the student has Students in the Master of Church Music program of study successfully completed the requirements for master’s must earn a minimum grade point average of “B-“ (2.7 on level applied study. A failing grade indicates that the a 4.0 scale) in the following courses: student needs to do further study, and more specifically, • All but four hours in the church music core needs to perform the degree recital again. • All but one hour in applied studies • All but two hours in elective courses Financial Obligations The student shall bear the cost of recording, printing Academic credit will not be given for any church music programs and program notes, and other related expenses. courses (either pre-graduate or graduate) in which the If the student desires a special piano tuning prior to the student earns lower than a “C-“ (1.7 on a 4.0 scale). recital, the student will bear this extra cost as well. Major Applied Literature Requirements Students taking major applied or concentrations in an applied area will be required to be examined by a M.A. and M.Div. Worship Projects All students in the Master of Arts in Worship Leadership faculty jury at the end of each semester. Students will and Master of Divinity in Worship Leadership degrees not be allowed to perform from photocopies of currently are required to present a 15-minute Worship Project copyrighted music. in the second semester of their applied concentration Master of Church Music Recital studies. This project is similar to a graduate recital, but is All students in the Master of Church Music degree will comprised of sacred music (traditional or contemporary) present a satisfactory recital in his/her applied area. This and transitional comments made by the student between recital is in addition to the pre-graduate recital required songs. The student must take two semesters of voice. prior to taking any graduate work. Stipulations for Students with significant vocal experience on the college memorization of material in the recital will vary from one level may have the option to take piano or guitar for their applied area to another. applied concentration studies upon the approval of the department chair for Biblical Worship. Students will also Possible Recital Formats prepare a one-page program for their worship project. Graduate-level recitals will be presented according to one The worship project is usually presented during the of the following three formats: seminary voice juries at the end of each semester. • 15-minute recital project with a supporting historical/ theoretical research document. Although scheduled Length of Time Required for during jury exams, this recital may be attended by the Completion of the Entire Program public. This is the minimum recital requirement. Normally a full time Diploma, Master of Church Music, or • 25-minute public recital. Students must receive Master of Arts in Worship Leadership student will spend permission from their semester jury examination panel three years in residence in order to complete his or her in order to give a public recital. program of study. This three-year time frame is projected for full-time students who have no undergraduate music Pre-Recital Preparation deficiencies or who do not need review of material In the recital semester, the student is responsible studied in college. for arranging the time, date, media needs and dress Normally a full time student in the Master of Divinity rehearsal for the recital. This must be arranged no later with a concentration in Worship Leadership will spend than three weeks into the semester of the recital. The four years in residence in order to complete his or her submitted date is final and cannot be changed. program of study. This projected four-year time frame is The student is responsible for the preparation of his also for full-time students who have no undergraduate or her own program notes and gathering information music deficiencies or who do not need review of material relating to the works to be performed. The student studied in college. must prepare a typed copy of the program exactly as he or she wants it to appear. This program must first be submitted to the applied teacher for approval. After the Master’s Level Program applied teacher has approved the program, the student Descriptions and Requirements must submit the program to the secretary of the Billy The Billy Graham School offers the following master’s Graham School at least 4 weeks prior to the recital. level degrees and concentrations. Once the program is prepared for printing, the school Master of Divinity with concentrations in: office will give the student a proof copy. The student • Great Commission Studies

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 79 • Applied Apologetics • Biblical Counseling • Church and Pastoral Ministries • Church Ministries • Church Planting • Discipleship and Family Ministry • International Missions • International Church Planting (2+2/3 or Reverse 2+ with IMB) • Islamic Studies • Itinerant Evangelism • Leadership • Missions and Biblical Counseling • North American Missions • Urban Missions • Youth and Family Ministry • Missions and Bible Translation • Worship Leadership Advanced Master of Divinity Master of Arts in: • Biblical Counseling • Christian Education • Church Ministries • Discipleship and Family Ministry • Leadership • Missiology • Theological Studies - Intercultural Studies (for appointed NAMB/IMB personnel) - Lay Leadership • Worship Leadership • Youth and Family Ministry Master of Arts (Islamic Studies) Master of Church Music Diploma in Missions, Evangelism and Ministry The M.Div. curriculum in the Billy Graham School is built around flexibility that allows the students (with the cooperation of an advisor) to choose courses in line with his/her calling. Each of the listed programs of study vary in terms of description and requirements. Program descriptions and requirements are outlined on the following pages. Note: Master of Divinity and Master of Arts degrees are also offered in the School of Theology. Please consult the School of Theology section of this catalog for more information, as the degree programs in that school offer different goals and requirements.

page 80 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School Master of Divinity Core The Master of Divinity is the foundational graduate Learning Outcomes degree program for ministry preparation offered by the • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a Billy Graham School. The program of study is designed sense of God’s calling to ministry. to give the student comprehensive knowledge in biblical • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global and theological studies for the purpose of applying that vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. knowledge in the practice of missions, evangelism and • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, ministry. The following core curriculum applies to all Billy interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Graham School Master of Divinity concentrations (except Scripture to contemporary situations. Biblical Worship). • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. Vocational Objectives • Displays a biblical vision for ministry and lead with Pastorate/Preaching humble authority. Evangelism • Preaches/ teaches Scripture Church Ministries clearly and passionately so as to engage the mind North American Missions and move the heart. International Missions • describes the role of the local church in fulfilling the Campus/college ministry Great Commission. Doctoral Studies Teaching in University or Seminary

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (24 hours) 20400 Elementary Hebrew1 (3) 30000 Christian Preachingor 22400 Elementary Greek1 (3) 45400 Christian Teaching2 3 31980 Written Communication (if required)* (2) 30020 Preaching Practicumor 40200 The Worshiping Church2 3 Biblical and Theological Studies (45 hours) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesisor 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 40080 Christian Leadershipor 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 40301 Pastoral Ministry2 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 25100 Introduction to Church History I 3 BGS Applied Ministry: 44920 or 44930 (1 hour) 25120 Introduction to Church History II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 Total Billy Graham School Master of Divinity Core 70 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Elementary Hebrew +3 (if required) 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Elementary Greek +3 (if required) 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Elementary Language courses may be counted as free elective courses for Billy Graham School students. 2Christian Preaching (30000), Preaching Practicum (30020), and Pastoral Ministry (40301) are reserved for, but not required of, men.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 81 Master of Divinity in Great Commission Studies

The Master of Divinity in Great Commission Studies Free Electives 18 is designed for those called to serve in local church ministry as well as cross-cultural mission contexts. Billy Graham 70School M.Div. Core This degree option builds upon the foundation of the Total M.Div. in Great Commission Studies 88 core curriculum to provide the greatest flexibility with Written Communication +2 (if required) respect to free elective courses available in a Master of Divinity program at Southern Seminary.

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Applied Apologetics 28700 Christian Apologetics 3 Applied Apologetics 18 28970 Critical Thinking 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 33855 Apologetics in the Local Church 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 in Applied Apologetics Requirements Free Electives 6

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Biblical Counseling 34305 Biblical and Theological Foundations 3 Biblical Counseling 18 34330 Typical Problems in Biblical Counseling 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 34325 The Care of Souls in the Congregation3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling 3 in Biblical Counseling Requirements 35530 Reformational Counseling Training I or 35585 Counseling Observations and Practicum 3 35540 Reformational Counseling Training II or 35590 Counseling Intership 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Church and Pastoral Ministries

30020 Preaching Practicum 3 Church and 18 Pastoral Ministries 32160 Evangelistic Preaching 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 32260 Theology of Evangelism 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 32300 Principles of Spiritual Awakenings 3 in Church and Pastoral Ministries Requirements 42450 Change and Conflict Management 3 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3

page 82 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Church Planting 33060 Field Seminar in Church Planting 3 Church Planting 18 33200 Missions in North America 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 33820 Introduction to Church Planting 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 33830 Intercultural Church Planting 3 in Church Planting Requirements 33840 Models of Church Planting 3 33860 Church Multiplication Strategies 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Discipleship and Family Ministry 34330 Typical Problems in Biblical Counseling 3 Discipleship and Family Ministry 18 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 46260 Youth Ministry & the Family 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration in 88 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 Discipleship and Family Ministry Requirements 45250 Family Ministry Through the Lifespan 3 46325 Discipling Adults 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in International Missions

30960 Intercultural Communication 3 International Missions 18 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism and Missions3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration in 88 32750 History of Christian Missions 3 International Missions Requirements 32860 Biblical Basis of Christian Missions 3 33100 Principles and Practice of Missions 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Islamic Studies

32985 History and Religion of Islam 3 Islamic Studies 18 32986 Issues in Contemporary Islam 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 32990 Islam and the Christian Mission 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 32995 Introduction to Modern Arabic I 3 in Islamic Studies Requirements 32996 Introduction to Modern Arabic II 3 Elective Course in Islamic Studies 3

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 83 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Itinerant Evangelism

32160 Evangelistic Preaching1 3 Itinerant Evangelism 18 32260 Theology of Evangelism 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 32300 Principles of Spiritual Awakenings 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 Free Electives in Itinerant Evangelism Requirements9

1Evangelistic Preaching (32160) is reserved for men. Women will substitute any free elective course.

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Leadership

42210 Team Ministry Relations 3 Leadership 18 42410 Dynamics of Organizational Leadership 3 BGS M.Div. 70 Core 42450 Change and Conflict Management 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 45100 Issues and Trends in CE and Leadership3 in Leadership Requirements 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 45250 Family Ministry Through the Lifespan 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Missions and Biblical Counseling

30960 Intercultural Communicationor Missions and Biblical Counseling 18 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 BGS M.Div. 70 Core 34330 Typical Problems in Biblical Counseling 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 33477 Topics in Missions: Biblical Counseling 3 in Biblical Counseling in Missions Requirements in Missions 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling 3 35585 Counseling Observations and Practicum 3 35590 Counseling Internships 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in North American Missions

32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism and Missions3 North American 18 Missions 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 BGS M.Div. 70 Core 33020 Introduction to Church Planting 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 33200 Missions in North America 3 in North American Missions Requirements 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3

page 84 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Urban Missions

32330 Urban Missions 3 Urban Missions 18 32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism and Missions3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 33020 Introduction to Church Planting 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 36300 City Context for Christian Ministry 3 in Urban Missions Requirements 36450 Ministry/Evangelism: Holistic Approach 3 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3

Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Youth and Family Ministry

34330 Typical Problems in Biblical Counseling 3 Youth and Family Ministry 18 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 45250 Family Ministry through the Lifespan 3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 46000 Youth Ministry and Discipleship 3 in Discipleship and Family Ministry Requirements 46020 Current Trends in Youth Ministry 3 46260 Youth Ministry and the Family 3

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 85 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in International Church Planting (2+ Program)

This program (M.Div./ICP) involves approximately two years of study on campus and two or three years of church planting in an international missions setting. The BGS and the International Mission Board cooperate together to guide students through the appointment process to become IMB missionaries and fulfill the remainder of coursework while serving on the international mission field. Students must apply to the IMB and SBTS simultaneously.

Reverse 2+ Program: This program is the reverse of the above program. Students spend two years doing church planting in an international missions setting, followed by two years of class work on campus. Specific coursework and timing are determined by the department chair for Evangelism and Missions in the Billy Graham School. Students in this program must be fully accepted at Southern Seminary and must communicate with the director of the program prior to going to the field.

Students interested in pursuing the M.Div./ICP should contact the BGS department chair for Evangelsim and Missions as soon as possible after admission.

30960 Intercultural Communicationor International Church 18 Planting 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism and Missions3 Total M.Div. with a Concentration 88 32860 Biblical Basis of Christian Missions 3 in International Church Planting Requirements 33410 Language Learning for Missionaries1 3 33420 Cultural Acquisition for Missionaries1 3 33830 Intercultural Church Planting1 3

1Courses to be completed at IMB missionary orientation and on the field.

page 86 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Divinity in Missions and Bible Translation (in conjunction with The Graduate Institute in Applied Linguistics)

The Master of Divinity in Missions and Bible Translation is Vocational Objectives designed to produce graduates qualified to serve • International missions in specialist cross-cultural roles in Bible translation, • Cross-cultural evangelism and church planting ethnology or descriptive linguistics or in general cross- • Bible translation cultural service. Students must complete both components below, i.e., 79 hours at SBTS and 18 hours at GIAL. IMPORTANT: The plan of study should be planned carefully in consultation with advisors from the Billy Graham School and the Graduate Institute in Applied Linguistics.

SBTS GRADUATE HOURS Hebrew Exegesis (20520, 20600-20800) or Bible Concentration Common Courses (15 hours) Greek Exegesis (22600-23790)1 3 AL5314 Culture, Language andor Mind Great Commission Ministries (6 hours)2 AL5315 Semantics and Pragmatics 3 30960 Intercultural Communication 3 Language Hebrew or Greek3 6 33010 Communication in Oral Cultures 3 Exegesis NT/OT Exegesis1 3 AL5316 Theory and Practice of Translation3 BGS M.Div. Core 70 Electives (9 hours)2 Total SBTS 79 Transferred hours in from SBTS 9

Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (GIAL) GIAL hours 18 IMPORTANT: The GIAL Certificate in Applied Linguistics SBTS hours 18accepted by transfer (21 undergraduate hrs. + AL5406 & AL5207 = 27 hrs.) Total graduate hours to meet GIAL requirements 36 must be completed for admission into the Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (GIAL catalog, 13-16). These hours SBTS graduate 79 hours may be completed subsequent to the 79 hours from GIAL graduate 18 hours SBTS, but MUST be completed prior to enrolling in the following graduate level courses. Total Master of Divinity in Missions 97 and Bible Translation Requirements GIAL GRADUATE HOURS GIAL certificate21 hours (required) Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics Elementary Hebrew +3 (if required) General Core Requirements (13 hours) Elementary Greek +3 (if required) AL5406 Field Methods & Linguistic Analysis4 Written Communication +2 (if required) AL5207 Field Data Management 2 LD5151 Cross-cultural Teaching Seminar 1 AL5314 Culture, Language andor Mind AL5315 Semantics and Pragmatics 3 AL5312 Discourse Analysis 3

1Credits to be accepted by transfer from SBTS into GIAL for completion of GIAL exegesis requirement. 2Credits to be accepted by transfer from SBTS into GIAL for completion of GIAL elective requirements. 3Credits to be accepted by transfer from SBTS into GIAL for completion of GIAL language requirements.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 87 Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Worship Leadership

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Worship Leadership Concentration (27 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 20400 Elementary Hebrew (3) 40605 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs 2 22400 Elementary Greek (3) 40610 Discipling Music Ministry I 2 40615 Discipling Music Ministry II 2 Biblical and Theological Studies (45 hours) 40620 Worship Leadership and Design 2 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 40625 Vocal Ensemble Leadership 2 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 40630 Worship Band Techniques 2 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesisor 40635 Technology for Music and Worship Ministry2 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 40640 Worship Resources 1 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 40670 Song Writing for Worship Leaders 2 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 40680 Worship Band Lab: Guitar1 ½ 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 40681 Worship Band Lab: Keyboard1 ½ 25100 Introduction to Church History 3 40682 Worship Band Lab: Bass 1 Guitar ½ 25120 Introduction to Church History II 3 40683 Worship Band Lab: Drum1 Set ½ 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 41016 Integrative Seminar 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 Applied Concentration (two semesters and 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Worship project) 4 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Ensembles (4 semesters)2 0 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 Worship Leadership Field Education (1 hour) 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40693 Worship Leadership Field Education: Leadership ½ Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (15 hours) 40694 Worship Leadership Field Education: 30000 Christian Preachingor Current Trends ½ 45400 Christian Teaching 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Total Master of Divinity 88 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 with Concentration in Worship 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 Leadership Requirements 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Written Communication +2 (if required)

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Course 30000 is reserved for, but not required of, men. 2Students who demonstrate proficiency may substitute a Level II Worship Band Lab course (40684-40687). 3Students will take Southern Chorale (50740) two of the four required semesters.

page 88 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Advanced Master of Divinity

The Advanced Master of Divinity in the Billy Graham subjects), and who have submitted an acceptable 12-20 School is an accelerated professional degree program page research paper. Students are also encouraged for students who have a baccalaureate or Master of Arts to have completed 3 hours each in ethics, philosophy, degree in religion or biblical studies, who have at least a hermeneutics, preaching, elementary Hebrew, and 3.3 college grade point average, who have completed at elementary Greek. least 6 hours at the introductory level in Old Testament Students who are interested in this program Survey, New Testament Survey, Church History, and must consult with the Associate Dean of the Billy Systematic Theology (or 5 hours at the introductory Graham School. level plus 3 hours at an advanced level in each of these

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2)

Biblical and Theological Studies (36 hours) 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 Advanced Elective 3 in Church History Advanced Electives in Christian Theology 6 27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3

Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (27 hours) 30000 Christian Preaching1 or 45400 Christian Teaching 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 33820 Introduction to Church Plantingor 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 40800 Christian Leadership 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3

Free Electives (can be taken either BGS/SOT) 9 BGS Applied Ministry (courses 44920 or 44930) 1 Total Advanced Master of Divinity Requirements 73 Written Communication +2 (if required)

uSee Written Communication Requirement in in Academic Section. 1Christian Preaching (30000) is reserved for, but not required of, men. Note: Students should have completed courses in elementary Greek and elementary Hebrew prior to entering the Advanced M.Div. program, but if not, may complete them as prerequisites while enrolled in the program.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 89 Advanced Master of Divinity with a Concentration in Worship Leadership

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses 20400 Elementary Hebrew (3) Worship Leadership Concentration (25 hours) 22400 Elementary Greek (3) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 40605 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs 2 40610 Discipling Music Ministry I 2 Biblical and Theological Studies (33 hours) 40615 Discipling Music Ministry II 2 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis or 40620 Worship Leadership and Design 2 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 40625 Vocal Ensemble Leadership 2 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 40630 Worship Band Techniques 2 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 40670 Song Writing for Worship Leaders 2 Advanced Elective 3 in 40680 Worship ChurchBand Lab: Guitar1 History ½ Advanced Electives in 40681Christian Worship Band Lab:Theology Keyboard 1 6 ½ 27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 40682 Worship Band Lab: Bass 1 Guitar ½ 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 40683 Worship Band Lab: Drum1 Set ½ 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 40693 Worship Leadership Field Ed: Leadership½ 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 40694 Worship Leadership Field Ed: Current ½Trends 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 41016 Integrative Seminar in Church Music & Worship 1 Applied Concentration (2 semesters & worship project) 4 Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (15 hours) Ensembles (4 0 semesters) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 33820 Introduction to Church Plantingor Total Advanced Master of Divinity Requirements 73 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 Elementary Hebrew +3 (if required) 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Elementary Greek +3 (if required)

uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Students who demonstrate proficiency may substitute a Level II Worship Band Lab course (40684-40687). 2A minimum of two semesters of Ensembles must be Southern Chorale.

page 90 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Advanced Master of Divinity — Boyce Alumnus

The Advanced Master of Divinity – Boyce Alumnus in the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry is an accelerated professional degree program for graduates of Boyce College who have at least a 3.3 undergraduate grade- point average. Students who are interested in this program must consult the associate dean of the Billy Graham School.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Students may choose four electives from a field to earn a 20400 Elementary Hebrew (3) concentration in 22440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis (3) 22400 Elementary Greek (3) • Biblical Worship Hebrew or Greek (3) • SyntaxEvangelism andand MissionsExegesis 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) • Leadership and Discipleship

Biblical and Theological Studies (27 hours) ** All other students would graduate with the M. Div. in 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 Missions, Evangelism, and Ministry 27800 Theology of the Old Testament 3 27820 Theology of the New Testament 3 Total Master of Divinity Requirements 73 -- -- Advanced Church History Elective3 20400 Elementary Hebrew (if required) +3 -- -- AdvancedTheology Electives 6 22400 Elementary Greek (if required) +3 33855 Apologetics in the Local Church 3 Hebrew or Greek Syntax and Exegesis (if required) +3 -- -- Elective in Worldview/Philosophy/Ethics3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3

Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (25 hours) 30960 Intercultural Communicationor 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 30020 Preaching Practicum1 or 32160 Evangelistic Preaching 3 33820 Introduction to Church Plantingor 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 34305 Biblical and Theological Foundations for Counseling 3 40080 Christian Leadership 3 40200 The Worshipping Church 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 44920 or 44930 Applied Ministry 1

Free Electives2 21

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Women students will substitute Christian Teaching (45400). 2Free electives can be taken in either the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry or the School of Theology. Students may choose four electives from a given department in the Billy Graham School to earn a concentration in Biblical Counseling and Family Ministry, Biblical Worship, Evangelism and Missions, or Leadership and Discipleship.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 91 Master of Church Music The Master of Church Music degree is a graduate, Learning Outcomes professional degree designed to educate those called • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a into church music ministry. Students will be raised sense of God’s calling to ministry. to a higher level of musical performance, academic • Understands the Christian worldview and have a excellence, and ministerial competence. After the global vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. completion of placement examinations and during • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, the first two semesters of enrollment, the student interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply can determine a sequence of studies plan with his Scripture to contemporary situations. or her advisor. This degree is designed to prepare • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a persons for leading worship ministry, music ministry, larger biblical framework. conducting, composition, as well as vocal and • Demonstrates competent leadership in church or instrumental performance in churches as well as careers sacred music. in denominational or institutional work.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Church Music and Worship Studies (33 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required) (2) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 40605 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs 2 MCM Core Studies (33 hours) 40610 Discipling Music Ministry I 2 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 40615 Discipling Music Ministry II 2 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 40620 Worship Leadership and Design 2 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 40625 Vocal Ensemble Leadership 2 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 40630 Worship Band Techniques 2 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 40635 Technology for Music and Worship Ministry2 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 40640 Worship Resources 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 40670 Song Writing for Worship Leaders 2 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 40680 Worship Band Lab: Guitar1 ½ 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 40681 Worship Band Lab: Keyboard1 ½ 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 40682 Worship Band Lab: Bass 1 Guitar ½ 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 40683 Worship Band Lab: Drum1 Set ½ 41016 Integrative Seminar 1 51660 Instrumental Transcription and Arranging 2 52600 Graduate Conducting 2 Major Applied Area (3 semesters with recital) 6 Ensembles (4 2 semesters) 0

Worship Leadership Field Education (1 hour) 40693 Worship Leadership Field Education: Leadership ½ 40694 Worship Leadership Field Education: Current Trends ½

Total Master of Church Music Requirements 67

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Students who demonstrate proficiency may substitute a Level II Worship Band Lab course (40684-40687). 2Minimum of two semesters of ensembles must be Southern Chorale (50740).

page 92 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts (Islamic Studies) The Master of Arts (Islamic Studies) is an academic Learning Outcomes degree that combines a study of classical Islam • Students will be able to demonstrate a growing, Christlike and Arabic language with specialized biblical and character and a sense of God’s calling to ministry. theological studies for those who are preparing for • Students will be able to understand the Christian ministry in Muslim contexts or wishing to pursue further worldview and have a global vision for fulfilling the Great graduate studies on Islam. Commission. • Students will be able to demonstrate significant knowledge of the Bible, interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary situations. • Students will be able to integrate systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Students will be able to demonstrate competence in Islamic issues as it relates to Christian missions and ministry.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Islamic Studies (29 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 Master of Arts Core Studies (33 hours) 32985 History and Religion of Islam 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 32986 Contemporary Issues in Islam 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 32987 Islamic Thought: Belief and Practice 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 32988 The Texts of Islam 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 32990 Islam and the Christian Mission 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 32995 Modern Arabic I 3 25100 Introduction to the Church History I 3 32996 Modern Arabic II 3 25120 Introduction to the Church History II 3 32999 Thesis Research and Writing 2 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 Total Master of Arts (Islamic Studies) Requirements 62 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 27080 Systematic Theology III 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 93 Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling The Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling is designed to Vocational Objectives prepare students for a ministry of biblical counseling to • Biblical Counseling individuals, couples, and families in a congregational, • Marriage and Family Ministry denominational agency, counseling center, or missions setting. The degree is designed for non-pastoral staff Learning Outcomes members and other church leaders who seek to do a • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a significant amount of counseling from the framework of sense of God’s calling to ministry. a biblical counseling model. The degree blends academic • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global and classroom preparation with practical training in a vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. ministry setting. Students desiring to pursue D.Min. or • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, Ph.D. studies should seek entry into the M.Div. with a interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Concentration in Biblical Counseling degree. Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates skill in the practice of biblical counseling.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Biblical Counseling Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 34305 Biblical and Theological Foundations Biblical and Theological Studies (33 hours) for Counseling 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 34310 Essential Qualities of the Biblical Counselor3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 34330 Typical Problems in Biblical Counseling 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 35530 Reformational Counseling Trainingor I 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 35585 Counseling Observations and Practicum 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 35540 Reformational Counseling Trainingor II 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 35590 Counseling Internships 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 35595 Biblical Counseling Portfolio 0 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Total Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 Requirements 54 • Written Communication+2 (if required) uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

page 94 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts in Christian Education The Master of Arts in Christian Education is a Learning Outcomes professional degree program that prepares persons • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a for specialized ministry in Christian education and/ sense of God’s calling to ministry. or leadership. The program integrates theology with • Understands the Christian worldview and have a Christian education and leadership and also allows global vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. students to select an emphasis in one specialized area • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, of ministry. Graduates of this program will be prepared interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply for ministries in discipleship, youth and children’s Scripture to contemporary situations. ministry, and executive leadership. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competence in various educational ministries.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Christian Education Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 40080 Christian Leadership 3 42210 Team Ministry Relations 3 Master of Arts Core Studies (39 hours) 42410 Dynamics of Organizational Leadership 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 42450 Change and Conflict Management 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 45150 Worldview, Culture, and Discipleship 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Total Master of Arts in Christian 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Education Requirements 61 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40200 The Worshiping Church 3

uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 95 Master of Arts in Church Ministries

The Master of Arts in Church Ministries is a ministry Learning Outcomes practitioner’s degree that prepares persons for a • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a variety of supporting ministries in the local church or in sense of God’s calling to ministry. Christian ministries. The program integrates theology • Understands the Christian worldview and has a global with leadership studies and provides a broad curricular vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. experience that includes missions, evangelism, worship, • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, and worldview. Graduates of this program will be can interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply equipped to lead in several areas including: discipleship, Scripture to contemporary situations. youth and children’s ministry, college ministry, women’s • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a ministry, and executive or denominational leadership. larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competence in local church leadership.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Church Ministry Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 35100 Marriage and Family Counselingor 41800 Introduction to Youth and Family Ministry3 Master of Arts Core Studies (39 hours) 40080 Christian Leadership 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 45150 Worldview, Culture, and Discipleship 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 45250 Family Ministry through the Lifespan 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 45800 Discipling Children or 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 46000 Youth Ministry and Discipleship 3 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Total Master 61 of Arts 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 in Church Ministries Requirements 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 • Written Communication+2 (if required) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Pastoral Leadership (40080) is reserved for men. Women will substitute any Billy Graham School elective course.

page 96 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts in Discipleship and Family Ministry

The Master of Arts in Discipleship and Family Ministry Learning Outcomes is a practitioner’s degree program that prepares • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a persons for specialized ministry in discipleship and/or sense of God’s calling to ministry. family ministry. The program integrates theology with • Understands the Christian worldview and have a discipleship and/or family ministry but also includes global vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. foundational coursework in leadership. Graduates of this • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, program will be prepared for ministries in discipleship interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply and children’s and family ministry. Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competence in the area of discipleship and family ministry.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Discipleship & Family Ministry Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling 3 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 Master of Arts Core Studies (39 hours) 45250 Family Ministry Through the Lifespan 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 45800 Discipling Children 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 46325 Discipling Adults 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Total Master of Arts in Discipleship 61 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 and Family Ministry Requirements 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40200 The Worshiping Church 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Pastoral Leadership (40080) is reserved for men. Women will substitute any Billy Graham School elective course.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 97 Master of Arts in Leadership

The Master of Arts in Leadership is a practitioner’s Learning Outcomes degree program that prepares persons for specialized • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a ministry in church administration and/or leadership. sense of God’s calling to ministry. The program integrates theology with leadership • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global through an expanded curriculum of leadership courses. vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. Graduates of this program will be prepared for ministries • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, in discipleship, church administration, and executive or interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply denominational leadership. Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competence in local church leadership.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Leadership Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 33020 Leadership in Intercultural Contexts 3 40080 Christian Leadership 3 Master of Arts Core Studies (39 hours) 42210 Team Ministry Relations 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 42410 Dynamics of Organizational Leadership 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 42450 Change and Conflict Management 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Total Master of Arts in Leadership Requirements 61 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40200 The Worshiping Church 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

page 98 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts in Missiology

The Master of Arts in Missiology is a graduate degree Vocational Objectives designed to provide training for missionaries and others • Church planting who serve or plan to serve in intercultural ministry and • Cross-cultural evangelism church multiplication positions. Students must • Evangelism have declared a call to missions, and the office of the • International missions dean must approve admission. In general, it is assumed • North American missions that those who will serve in a teaching/preaching • Urban evangelism position will enroll in the M.Div. degree. Students who • Missionary spouses desire to do doctoral work should also be aware that the M.A.Miss. degree is a prerequisite degree for only Learning Outcomes the Doctor of Missiology degree, and entrance to that • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a degree requires a minimum of two years of full-time sense of God’s calling to ministry. cross-cultural experience. • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competent leadership in cross-cultural ministries and church multiplication.

Remedial/Prerequisite Courses Missiology Concentration (30 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 30960 Intercultural Communication 3 32060 Biblical Basis of Christian Missions 3 Master of Arts Core Studies (30 hours) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism and Missions3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 32980 World Religions and Christian Mission 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 32750 History of Christian Missions 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 33020 Leadership in Intercultural Contexts 3 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 33830 Intercultural Church Planting 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 Total Master of Arts in Missiology Requirements 61 Written Communication 2 (if required)

uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 99 Master of Arts in Theological Studies — Intercultural Leadership

The Master of Arts in Theological Studies for Intercultural Vocational Objectives Leadership is a graduate degree designed to provide • For appointed missionaries only training for persons whose career goals require knowledge and skills for living and working in intercultural Learning Outcomes settings. Admission to this program is restricted to only • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global those who are under appointment by the International vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, or • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, other approved Great Commission groups, and are interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply serving on the field currently. Admission is contingent Scripture to contemporary situations. upon appointment status as well as the approval of the • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a missions agency. larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates a focused knowledge of intercultural leadership within the context of Christian missions.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Great Commission Studies (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 30960 Intercultural Communication 3 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Biblical and Theological Studies (27 hours) 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 32980 World Religions and Christian 1 Mission 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 33410 Language Learning for Missionaries 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 33420 Cultural Acquisition for Missionaries 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 33830 Intercultural Church Planting2 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 Total Master of Arts in Theological Studies — 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 Intercultural Leadership Requirements 48 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 27080 Systematic Theology III 3

uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Macedonia Project appointees may substitute 32985 (History and Religion of Islam) for 32980 (World Religions and Christian Mission) 2This course may be substituted for 33100 Principles and Practice of Missions

page 100 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts in Theological Studies — Lay Leadership

The Master of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS) is Vocational Objectives designed to offer ministry training for those persons who • For laypersons only are not preparing for a professional ministry vocation. The purpose of this degree is to provide biblical, theological, Learning Outcomes historical, and practical training to laypersons who desire • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global to be better equipped to do ministry in the local church. vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. The BGS MATS focuses on Great Commission studies built • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, upon a biblical and theological foundation. interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to contemporary situations. • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger biblical framework.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Missions, Evangelism and Ministry (15 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)u (2) 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 Biblical and Theological Studies (27 hours) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 Free electives 6 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 Total Master 48 of Arts 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 in Theological Studies Requirements 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Written Communication + (if 2 required) 27080 Systematic Theology III 3

uSee Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 101 Master of Arts in Worship Leadership

The Master of Arts in Worship Leadership is a professional Learning Outcomes degree program that prepares persons for specialized • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a ministry in local church worship leadership. This program sense of God’s calling to ministry. is designed to provide the student a solid background in • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global biblical studies and Christian life and thought, combined vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. with a core of studies in the field of worship leadership. • Demonstrate significant knowledge of the Bible, can The program integrates theology with discipleship, interpret Scripture’s original meaning, and apply worship, and leadership. Graduates of this program Scripture to contemporary situations. will be prepared for ministries in local church worship • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a leadership and music ministry. larger biblical framework. • Demonstrates competence in worship leadership.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Worship Leadership Concentration (27 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 40605 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs 2 Master of Arts Core Studies (36 hours) 40610 Discipling Music Ministry I 2 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 40615 Discipling Music Ministry II 2 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 40620 Worship Leadership and Design 2 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 40625 Vocal Ensemble Leadership 2 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 40630 Worship Band Techniques 2 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 40635 Technology for Music and Worship Ministry2 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 40640 Worship Resources 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 40670 Song Writing for Worship Leaders 2 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 40680 Worship Band Lab: Guitar1 ½ 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 40681 Worship Band Lab: Keyboard1 ½ 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 40682 Worship Band Lab: Bass 1 Guitar ½ 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40683 Worship Band Lab: Drum1 Set ½ 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 41016 Integrative Seminar 1 Applied Concentration (two semesters and Worship project) 4 Ensembles (4 semesters)2 0

Worship Leadership Field Education (1 hour) 40693 Worship Leadership Field Education: Leadership ½ 40694 Worship Leadership Field Education: Current Trends ½

Total Master of 64 Arts in Worship Leadership Requirements Written Communication +2 (if required)

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section. 1Students who demonstrate proficiency may substitute a Level II Worship Band Lab course (40684-40687). 2Minimum of two semester of ensembles must be Southern Chorale (50740).

page 102 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Master of Arts in Youth and Family Ministry

The Master of Arts in Youth and Family Ministry is a Learning Outcomes practitioner’s degree program that prepares persons for • Demonstrates a growing, Christ-like character and a sense of specialized service in local church youth ministry. The God’s calling to ministry. program integrates theology with principles of effective • Understands the Christian worldview and have a global youth ministry. It includes courses in theological studies, vision for fulfilling the Great Commission. biblical studies, historical studies, Christian education, • Demonstrates significant knowledge of the Bible, interpret and leadership studies. Graduates of this program will Scripture’s original meaning, and apply Scripture to be prepared for ministries in discipleship, youth ministry, contemporary situations. children’s ministry, college ministry, and denominational • Integrates systematic and historical theology into a larger roles in youth ministry as well as with para-church youth biblical framework. ministry organizations. • Demonstrates competence in the area of youth and family ministry.

Remedial/Pre-requisite Courses Youth and Family Ministry Concentration (21 hours) 31980 Written Communication (if required)◆ (2) 41800 Introduction to Youth and Family Ministry3 45150 Worldview, Culture and Discipleship 3 Masters of Arts Core Studies (39 hours) 45250 Family Ministry through the Lifespan 3 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament I 3 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry 3 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament II 3 45400 Christian Teaching 3 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 46000 Youth Ministry and Discipleship 3 22200 Introduction to the New Testament I 3 46020 Current Trends in Youth Ministry 3 22220 Introduction to the New Testament II 3 26200 Southern Baptist Heritage and Mission 3 BGS Applied Ministry 44920 or 44930 1 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 Total Master of 61 Arts in 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 Youth and Family Ministry Requirements 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 Written Communication +2 (if required) 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 40200 The Worshiping Church 3

◆See Written Communication Requirement in Academic Section.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 103 and missions administration. The distinctive features of the Diploma Program Doctor of Educational Ministry degree program include: • Participation in academic seminars Diploma in Missions, Evangelism and • A Ministry Research Project or approved research thesis Ministry related to the student’s ministry setting A Diploma in Missions, Evangelism and Ministry program • An oral defense of the research project is offered for students who do not have a baccalaureate In the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism degree. Candidates must be at least 30 years of age to and Ministry the degree is offered in the following be admitted to the Diploma in Missions, Evangelism and concentrations: Ministry program. • Applied Apologetics Up to 12 semester hours of transfer credit can be • Biblical Counseling applied to the Diploma in Missions, Evangelism and • Biblical Spirituality Ministry program. Those credit hours must have been • Black Church Leadership taken through Seminary Extension (a ministry education • Christian Ethics system of the six theological seminaries of the Southern • Christian Worship Baptist Convention) or Boyce College. See Transfer of • Church Revitalization Credit Policy in Academic Section. • Executive Leadership To graduate with a Diploma in Missions, Evangelism • Family Ministry and Ministry, the student must complete the requirements • Global Missions for the Master of Divinity degree program except for • Leadership the common core language requirement of Hebrew and Greek, and must earn a minimum of 85 credit hours. Registration Choose any one of the vocational focus options. Diploma Students accepted into the Doctor of Educational students may request admittance to a master’s program Ministry program must register for their first seminar no in accordance with the Transfer of Degree Program later than one year after acceptance to the program. policy (see section in Academic Information). Diploma After initial registration, a student is expected to register students may request admittance to a master’s program for seminars every term and for Contextualized Writing in accordance with the Transfer of Degree Program policy seminars for the first four semesters. (See section in Academic Information). Unforeseen circumstances do at times require that students temporarily halt their studies. Any interruptions Diploma in Theological Studies in study, however, are strongly discouraged. Students who A Diploma in Theological Studies program is offered must take some time off from the program of study must for students who do not have a baccalaureate degree. request permission for “Interrupted Status” from the Office Candidates must be at least 30 years of age to be of Professional Doctoral Studies at least one month prior to admitted in the Diploma in Theological Studies program. the first day of classes in the semester. To graduate with a Diploma in Theological Studies, the student must complete the requirements for the Master Length of Time Allowed of Arts in Theological Studies degree program. Diploma Students who enter the D.Ed.Min. program are expected students may request admittance to a master’s program to pursue the degree concurrently with their full-time in accordance with the Transfer of Degree Program vocational involvement in ministry and should plan on a policy (see section in Academic Information). Diploma minimum of three years of study with a maximum of six students may request admittance to a master’s program years. Students who take longer than four years will be in accordance with the Transfer of Degree Program policy assessed an additional fee for each semester of extension. (See section in Academic Information). Under no circumstances shall a student extend the time of completion beyond six years (note that interrupted Policies for Doctor of Educational status will count against six year maximum). Ministry Program Minimum Grade Point Students must earn a minimum grade of “B-” (2.7 on a 4.0 Overview of Doctor of Educational scale) for each component part of the D.Ed.Min. degree. Ministry Program If a student receives less than a “B-” on any individual component, that component must be repeated and the The Doctor of Educational Ministry (D.Ed.Min.) degree is student is placed on probation. If a student receives two an advanced professional doctorate degree in ministry successive grades that are lower than a “B-”, the student based on the Master of Arts in Christian Education or will be terminated from the program. its equivalent (48 hour MA with courses related to areas of study such as education, leadership, and church Attendance ministries with a minimum of 18 hours of biblical studies, Due to the accelerated nature of the program, attendance theology, and interpretation). The purpose of the Doctor is required at every session for the entire duration of the of Educational Ministry (D.Ed.Min.) degree is to equip foundational seminars. Absence from any portion of the persons committed to a Christian leadership for a high seminar will necessitate retaking the seminar. level of excellence in the practice of education and discipling ministries, Christian leadership, church growth, Assignments The accelerated nature of the program mandates that all page 104 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 seminar assignments be completed on time, including any • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use assignments to be completed before or after the seminar standard research tools and methods in the chosen meets on campus. Failure to complete any work will result field of study. in a significant grade deduction. Faculty supervisors will • Students will be able to research, plan, and implement work with students to maintain a submission schedule for a project relevant to his/her vocational ministry and all assignments. to communicate the plan and its results effectively. Ministry Concentration Doctor of Educational Ministry Students will select a concentration of studies from Program Description and one of the following ministry concentrations. Each Requirements concentration consists of four seminars (16 hours) and The Doctor of Educational Ministry (D.Ed.Min.) degree is designed specifically to provide the student with is designed to meet the needs of leadership and church focused studies in the selected field. Students will be ministry professionals who desire further academic and required to select a concentration of studies rather than practical training in a contemporary ministry setting, but select individual seminars at random. The academic whose ministerial responsibilities do not allow them to requirements for these seminars are identical to those suspend full-time employment or relocate to Louisville to described for the foundational seminars. pursue that training. Biblical Counseling Curriculum Plan • 80551 Introduction to Biblical Counseling The D.Ed.Min. program consists of 46 hours of study from • 80552 Methodology of Biblical Counseling both education and concentration specific areas. The • 80553 Problems and Procedures of Biblical Counseling program consists of the following components: • 80554 Marriage and Family Counseling • 12 hours of educational seminars with specific application to educational ministries Biblical Spirituality • 16 hours of ministry concentration seminars from a • 80911 Introduction to Biblical Spirituality ministry field of choice • 80912 Christian Classics • 8 hours contextualized writing courses designed to • 80913 Biblical Spirituality in the Local Church allow students to work toward the completion of their • 80914 Spiritual Awakening and Revival project while in seminars • 2 hours of Introduction to Doctoral Research, Writing Leadership and Project Methodology • 80803 Biblical and Contemporary Models of Christian • 8 hours for the Ministry Research Project/Research Thesis Leadership • 80807 Leadership and Management Theory in Church Educational Seminars Administration Two on-campus educational seminars for a total of 8 • 80808 Leadership of Effective Ministry Teams credit hours are required: • 80809 Leadership in Volunteer Ministries • 80950 Applied Empirical Research...... 6 • 80960 Foundations of Teaching...... 6 Global Missions These seminars are not taken concurrently and may • 80611 Biblical and Theological Issues in Missions be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the • 80612 Intercultural Leadership seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. • 80613 Missions Strategy: Theory and Practice Each seminar meets for five days (Monday through Friday • 80615 Current Issues in Global Missions all day and in the evenings) during a summer or winter term. A student also can enroll in the seminars when they Family Ministry are offered at selected extension sites. • 80823 Models of Student and Family Ministry Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are • 80821 Christian Formation of Children and Adolescents required to complete a significant amount of work (such • 80822 Issues in Student and Family Ministry as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing • 80554 Marriage and Family Counseling written assignments). After attending the seminar, students are to write a reflection paper. Christian Worship Learning Outcomes • 80841 Theology and History of Christian Worship • Students will be able to demonstrate advanced and • 80842 Planning and Leading Christian Worship critical study of Christian formation from theological • 80843 Arts, Culture, and Trends in Christian Worship and historical perspectives as well as behavioral and • 80844 Leadership Dynamics in Worship Ministry social science perspectives. Contextualized Writing Seminar • Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced Contextualized Writing Seminars are designed so as to and critical study of organizational and leadership allow students to work toward the completion of their development and the social contexts for ministry. project while in seminars. This should allow students to • Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced and write and receive approval for chapters 1-3 by the time critical study of educational theory and practice as it he/she has completed their seminars and be on track to relates to local church and other ministry contexts. graduate in 36 months. In view of this goal, students will

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 105 register for Contextualized Writing Seminar (80710) in validation of a thesis statement applied to the broader each of their first four semesters in the program. church rather than a practical project geared towards This is a graded course which has fixed ubmission a local ministry setting. Permission must be granted to deadlines and for which the student must receive at present a research thesis in place of a ministry research least a B-. The outline below will briefly describe what project by submitting the following items: a Research each semester’s Contextualized Writing Seminar work Thesis Request Form; a 10-15 page exemplary research will entail. paper; and a 1 page abstract that includes the title, thesis statement, and general direction of the work. The Research in the Practice of Educational Ministry Office of Professional Doctoral Studies and the potential Eight hours of academic credit are awarded for successful supervisor will review these documents and determine completion of the research phase of study as specified whether the thesis request will be approved or denied. below: If approved, the student will write a thesis proposal in • 80600 Project Methodology ...... 1 course 80600 and submit it to the Professional Doctoral • 80853 Ministry Research Project ...... 8 Office and the supervisor for approval. Once these • 80610 Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 parties have accepted the proposal, the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies will recommend it to Project methodology courses provide preparation for the Associate Vice President for Doctoral Studies for the research project and interaction between students, recommendation to the faculty for approval. The student faculty supervisors, and resource persons. During the then engages in research and writing to complete the courses, the student will write the proposal, which is a thesis. Upon its completion, the student will defend proposal of the project in which the student wishes to the thesis before a committee of the faculty supervisor engage. To secure approval, the student must submit a and a second professor approved by the Director of project proposal to appropriate faculty members. Once Professional Doctoral Studies. the proposal has been deemed satisfactory by these selected faculty members, it will be forwarded to the Communities of Learning Students are part of a community of learning that helps School of Church Ministries doctoral committee and to foster collegiality and facilitate an open and effective finally to the seminary faculty for ultimate approval. learning atmosphere. Ministry Research Project The ministry research project (course 80853) is the Faculty Supervision Students receive program advising from the Office culmination of the program of study. Through a written of Professional Doctoral Studies throughout the report of 100-125 (+/–10%) pages, the student has entire program of study. Upon completion of Project the opportunity to apply professional knowledge and Methodology (80600), the student is assigned to a faculty documented research into the context of ministry. The supervisor. The supervisor is responsible for guiding the entire project is supervised by a committee comprised student’s progress through the Ministry Research Project of the faculty supervisor and the professor who taught or research thesis. course 80600. Prior to beginning the ministry research project, the student must secure approval of a proposal. To secure approval, the student must submit a Policies for Doctor of Ministry project prospectus to the two-person committee mentioned above. Once this committee approves Programs the prospectus, the Director of Professional Doctoral Overview of Doctor of Ministry Studies will recommend the prospectus to the Programs Associate Vice President for Doctoral Studies for The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree is an advanced recommendation to the faculty for final approval. professional doctoral degree in ministry. The purpose Once the prospectus is approved, the student engages of this program of study is to equip persons who are in simultaneous research and practice to conduct committed to a Christian vocation for a high level of the project. The results of the project are compiled excellence in the practice of ministry. in written form per specific guidelines. After the The distinctive features of the Doctor of Ministry project paper has been written, the student must degree program include: successfully defend the project in an oral exam before • Participation in academic seminars a committee of two persons. This committee includes • Practical application of classroom learning to the the faculty supervisor and the professor of the project student’s ministry setting methodology course or a second professor selected by • A written research project or thesis that is related to the the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies. student’s ministry setting Research Thesis • An oral defense of the written project The research thesis (course 80853) is an option for In the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism Professional Doctoral students with exceptional and Ministry, the degree is offered in the following research and writing skills. This option differs from the concentrations: ministry project in that it is a 125-150 page work driven • Applied Apologetics by literary research towards the development and • Black Church Leadership • Biblical Counseling page 106 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 • Christian Worship ministry project in that it is a 125-150 page work driven • Church Revitalization by literary research towards the development and • Executive Leadership validation of a thesis statement applied to the broader • Family Ministry church rather than a practical project geared towards • Global Missions a local ministry setting. Permission must be granted to • Leadership present a research thesis in place of a ministry research project by submitting the following items: a Research Contextualized Writing Seminars Thesis Request Form; a 10-15 page exemplary research Contextualized Writing Seminars are designed so as to paper; and a 1 page abstract that includes the title, allow students to work toward the completion of their thesis statement, and general direction of the work. project while in seminars. This should allow students to The Office of Professional Doctoral Studies and the write and receive approval for chapters 1-3 by the time potential supervisor will review these documents he/she has completed their seminars and be on track to and determine whether the thesis request will be graduate in 36 months. In view of this goal, students will approved or denied. If approved, the student will register for Contextualized Writing Seminar (80710) in write a thesis proposal in course 80600 and submit it each of their first four semesters in the program. This is to the Professional Doctoral Office and the supervisor a graded course which has fixed submission deadlines for approval. Once these parties have accepted the and for which the student must receive at least a B-. The proposal, the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies outline below will briefly describe what each semester’s will recommend it to the Associate Vice President for Contextualized Writing Seminar work will entail. (See Doctoral Studies for recommendation to the faculty for appendix 3 for the complete Contextualized Writing approval. The student then engages in research and Seminar syllabus) writing to complete the thesis. Upon its completion, the Project Methodology student will defend the thesis before a committee of Students are required to complete one project the faculty supervisor and a second professor approved methodology course, for a total of 2 credit hours: by the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies. • 80600 Project Methodology...... 1 Communities of Learning Course 80600 is attached to the third foundational Students are part of a community of learning that helps seminar. to foster collegiality and facilitate an open and effective • 80610 Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 learning atmosphere. Ministry Research Project Faculty Supervision The ministry research project, a written report of 100- Students receive program advising from the Office 125 (+/–10%) pages (course 80700), is the culmination of Professional Doctoral Studies throughout the of the program of study. Through the project, the entire program of study. Upon completion of Project student has the opportunity to apply professional Methodology (80600), the student is assigned to a faculty knowledge and documented research into the supervisor. The supervisor is responsible for guiding the context of ministry. The entire project is supervised student’s progress through the Ministry Research Project by a committee composed of the faculty supervisor or research thesis. and the professor who taught course 80600. Prior to beginning the ministry research project, the student Registration must secure approval of a proposal. To secure approval, Students accepted into the Doctor of Ministry program the student must submit a project prospectus to the must register for their first seminar no later than two-person committee mentioned above. Once this one year after acceptance to the program. After committee approves the prospectus, the Director initial registration, a student is expected to register of Professional Doctoral Studies will recommend every term for seminars and every semester for the prospectus to the Associate Vice President for Contextualized Writing Seminar or Ministry Research Doctoral Studies for recommendation to the faculty for Project writing. final approval. Once the prospectus is approved, the Unforeseen circumstances do at times require that student engages in simultaneous research and practice students temporarily halt their studies. Any interruptions to conduct the project. The results of the project are in study, however, are strongly discouraged. compiled in written form per specific guidelines. After Students who must take time off from the program of the project paper has been written, the student must study must request permission for “Interrupted Status” successfully defend the project in an oral exam before from the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies at a committee of two persons. This committee includes least one month prior to the first day of classes in the the faculty supervisor and the professor of the project semester. Students are allowed a maximum of two methodology course or a second professor selected by semesters of Interrupted Status. the Director of Professional Doctoral Studies. Length of Time Allowed Research Thesis Students in the program are expected to pursue The research thesis (course 80720) is an option for their degree concurrently with full-time vocational Professional Doctoral students with exceptional involvement in ministry. Students should expect to research and writing skills. This option differs from the complete the program within three years. If a student

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 107 takes longer than three years to complete the program, upon the unique concerns relative to ministering to a continuation fee will be charged each semester people of color. It is a non-resident degree program beyond the initial six semesters (3 years). Under no that is intended for ministry professionals who desire circumstances shall a student extend the time of further academic and practical education but who completion beyond six years (note that interrupted simultaneously wish to remain on the field of service status will count against the six year maximum). where God has placed them. Minimum Grade Point Curriculum Plan For each individual component of the program, a student The program of study consists of four areas: must receive a minimum grade of “B-” (2.7 on a 4.0 • Foundational seminars...... 16 scale). If a student receives a grade that is lower than a • Contextualized writing seminar...... 8 “B-” on any individual component, that component must • Project methodology...... 1 be repeated. Furthermore, that student is placed on • Ministry research project...... 6 probation. If a student receives two successive grades • Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 that are lower than a “B-”, the student will be terminated Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 from the program. Foundational Seminars Attendance Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 Due to the accelerated nature of the program, credit hours, are required: attendance is required at every session for the entire • 80411 Black Church Historical/Theological Emphasis..... 4 duration of the foundational seminars. Absence from • 80412 Black Church Leadership and Administration...... 4 any portion of any foundational seminar will necessitate • 80413 Black Church Ministry with the Community...... 4 retaking that seminar. Class participation will affect the • 80414 Ministry Transitions for the Black Church of the student’s final grade. 21st Century or Elective (selected in consultation with the supervisory professor and in light of the ministry Assignments research project)...... 4 The accelerated nature of the program mandates that all Each seminar meets for four days in either a winter seminar assignments be completed on time, including or summer term. Prior to the time the seminar meets, any assignments to be completed before or after the students are required to complete a significant amount seminar meets on campus. Failure to complete any work of work (such as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus will result in a significant grade deduction. Faculty will completing written assignments). After attending the work with students to maintain a submission schedule for seminar, students are to write a reflection paper. all assignments. Learning Outcomes • Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced Doctor of Ministry— understanding and integration of ministry into various Biblical Counseling theological disciplines. The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration • Students will be able to demonstrate applied in Biblical Counseling is designed to equip ministry knowledge & skills pertinent to his/her vocational professionals for leadership in ministering and ministry. counseling from a biblical foundation. Specifically, • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use the degree is designed for congregational ministers standard research tools and methods in the chosen and others who serve in counseling roles. The Doctor field of study. of Ministry is a non-resident degree program that is • Students will be able to research, plan, and implement intended for ministry professionals who desire further a project relevant to his/her vocational ministry and training but whose professional responsibilities do not to communicate the plan and its results effectively. allow them to suspend full-time employment to relocate • Students will be able to contribute to the in order to pursue an education. understanding and practice of ministry through the Curriculum Plan completion of a written project report suitable for The program of study consists of four areas: inclusion in the seminary library. • Foundational seminars: 16 hours • Contextualized Writing Seminar: 8 hours Doctor of Ministry Program • Project methodology: 2 hours Descriptions and Requirements • Ministry research project: 6 hours Total D.Min. credit hours: 32 Doctor of Ministry— Foundational Seminars Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 Black Church Leadership credit hours, are required: The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in • 80551 Introduction to Biblical Counseling...... 4 Black Church Leadership is designed primarily to equip • 80552 Methodology of Biblical Counseling...... 4 ministers who serve African Americans and other racial • 80553 Problems and Procedures of Biblical Counseling.4 minorities. The program of study emphasizes meeting • 80554 Marriage and Family Counseling...... 4 needs through urban community ministries and focuses page 108 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 These seminars are not taken concurrently and may Foundational Seminars be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. credit hours, are required: Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or • 80841 Theology and History of Christian Worship...... 4 summer term. A student also can enroll in the seminars • 80842 Planning and Leading Christian Worship...... 4 when they are offered at selected extension sites. • 80843 Arts, Culture, and Trends in Christian Worship...... 4 Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are • 80844 Leadership Dynamics in Worship Ministry...... 4 required to complete a significant amount of work (such These seminars are not taken concurrently and may as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in written assignments). the seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. Each seminar meets for four days during summer and winter terms. A student also can enroll Doctor of Ministry— in the seminars when they are offered at selected Church Revitalization extension sites. The Doctor of Ministry in Church Revitalization is Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are designed to equip pastors and other church leaders required to complete a significant amount of work (such with the training needed to revitalize struggling as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing churches. The program is founded upon the belief that written assignments). After attending the seminar, the revitalization of a local church happens through students are to write a reflection paper. people who have a biblical vision of a healthy church. Personal coaching and mentorship is a centerpiece of the program. Doctor of Ministry— Curriculum Plan Family Ministry • Foundational seminars...... 16 Curriculum Plan • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 • Foundational seminars...... 16 • Project Methodology...... 1 • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 • Ministry Research Project...... 6 • Project Methodology...... 1 • Introduction to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 • Ministry Research Project...... 6 Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 • Introduction to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 Foundational Seminars Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 Foundational Seminars credit hours, are required: Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 • 80350 Biblical and Theological Foundations of Church credit hours, are required: Revitalization...... 4 • 80823 Models of Student and Family Ministry...... 4 • 80351 Leading Church Revitalization...... 4 • 80821 Christian Formation of Children and • 80353 Evangelism and Church Health...... 4 Adolescents...... 4 • 80354 Leadership through Proclamation...... 4 • 80822 Issues in Student and Family Ministry...... 4 These seminars are not taken concurrently and may • 80554 Marriage and Family Counseling...... 4 be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. These seminars are not taken concurrently and may be Each seminar meets for four days during a fall and winter taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the terms. A student also can enroll in the seminars when seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. they are offered at selected extension sites. Each seminar meets for four days during a winter or Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are re- summer term. A student also can enroll in the seminars quired to complete a significant amount of work (such when they are offered at selected extension sites. as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are written assignments). After attending the seminar, stu- required to complete a significant amount of work (such dents are to write a reflection paper. as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing written assignments). Doctor of Ministry— Christian Worship Doctor of Ministry— Curriculum Plan Global Missions • Foundational seminars...... 16 The Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 global missions is designed to equip ministers with a high • Project Methodology...... 1 level of excellence in missions and global missions. This • Ministry Research Project...... 6 non-resident degree program is intended for ministry • Introduction to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 professionals who desire further academic and practical Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 education but who simultaneously wish to remain on the field of service where God has placed them.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 109 Curriculum Plan in Christian thought and life, especially for pastors and The program of study consists of four areas: teachers of Christian truth. The Master of Theology • Foundational seminars...... 16 (Th.M.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programs are • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 designed to prepare students for advanced Christian • Project methodology...... 1 scholarship and the application of scholarship to ministry. • Ministry research project...... 6 • Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 Areas of Study Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 • Applied Apologetics • Black Church Studies Foundational Seminars • Biblical Counseling Four on-campus foundational seminars, for a total of 16 • Christian Missions credit hours, are required: • Christian Worship • 80611 Biblical and Theological Issues in Missions...... 4 • Evangelism and Church Growth • 80612 Intercultural Leadership...... 4 • Family Ministry • 80613 Missions Strategy: Theory and Practice...... 4 • Higher Education • 80615 Current Issues in Global Missions...... 4 • Leadership Each seminar meets for four days during a winter • World Religions or summer term. Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are required to complete a significant amount of work (such as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus Research Doctoral Program completing written assignments). Descriptions and Requirements

Doctor of Ministry—Leadership Policies for Doctor of Curriculum Plan Missiology Program The program of study consists of four areas: Doctor of Missiology (D.Miss.) Program • Foundational seminars...... 16 hours The Doctor of Missiology program (D.Miss.) serves • Contextualized Writing Seminar...... 8 hours missionaries, practitioners, teachers, and administrators • Project methodology...... 1 hour by providing advanced formal education, guided reading • Intro to Doctoral Research and Writing...... 1 hour in pertinent missiological literature, field experience, • Ministry research project...... 6 hours mentoring, and supervision. Required mission trips allow Total D.Min. credit hours...... 32 students to apply classroom material in training national Foundational Seminars pastors and leaders. Four on-campus foundational seminars, chosen from the Faculty Supervision following, for a total of 16 credit hours are required: Each student in the Doctor of Missiology program is under • 80803 Biblical and Contemporary Models of Christian the guidance of a faculty supervisor. The student is to Leadership...... 4 request one of the Graham School graduate faculty as that • 80807 Leadership and Management Theory in Church supervisor. The faculty supervisor will advise the student in Administration...... 4 all matters related to the course of study, colloquium work, • 80808 Leadership of Effective Ministry Teams...... 4 comprehensive examinations, and field research. • 80809 Leadership in Volunteer Ministries...... 4 These seminars are not taken concurrently and may Length of Time Allowed be taken in one of two ways. A student can enroll in the Students should allow at least three years of study to seminars when they are offered on the Louisville campus. complete their program. Students who take longer than Each seminar meets for four days during a fall and winter three years will be assessed an additional fee for each term. A student also can enroll in the seminars when they semester of extension beyond the three-year limit. Under are offered at selected extension sites. no circumstances shall a student extend the time of Prior to the time the seminar meets, students are completion beyond six years. required to complete a significant amount of work (such An exception to these time limitations may be granted as reading a minimum of 2500 pages plus completing to students who are international missionaries and who written assignments). study only during their periods of stateside assignment. Minimum Grade Point Policies for For each individual component of the program, a student Research Doctoral Studies must receive a minimum grade of “B” (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). If a student receives a grade that is lower than a Overview of “B” on any individual component, that component must Research Doctoral Programs be repeated. Furthermore, that student is placed on Research doctoral programs in the Billy Graham School probation. If a student receives two successive grades of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry are designed that are lower than a “B”, the student will be terminated to give students of superior ability an opportunity to from the program. prepare themselves thoroughly for effective leadership page 110 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Learning Outcomes performance will be reviewed. Permission for a • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to second examination may be granted. A second failure conduct cross-cultural ministry at an advanced level. on the comprehensive examinations will result in • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use forfeiture of Doctor of Missiology candidacy status. standard research tools and methods in the chosen field of study. • Students will be able to plan and conduct research in Master of Theology (Th.M.) the area of specialization and to communicate its Program results effectively. The Master of Theology is a 24-26 hour degree that allows students to engage in intensive study that goes beyond Doctor of Missiology Program the M.Div. level. The goal is to acquaint students with resources and research methods for a major area of study Descriptions and Requirements and offer focused time for reflection in preparation for The student is to complete the following with passing ministry or advanced scholarship. grades in order to graduate with a Doctor of Missiology degree. Th.M. Tracks There are two different tracks available within the Th.M. Program Requirements program — Ministry Th.M. and Research Th.M. • D.Miss. Seminars...... 46 hours The Ministry Th.M. is designed for students interested • Guided Mentoship...... 6 hours in furthering their M.Div. studies but who are not • Dissertation Writting and Defense...... 6 hours necessarily planning to do advanced studies beyond Total D.Miss. credit hours...... 58 hours the Th.M degree. Ministry Th.M. coursework consists of 24 credit hours, which come from 2 introductory The student is allowed considerable flexibility in the order courses (Foundations for Theological Studies and in which required seminars are taken. Graduate Research Seminar) plus 5 advanced M.Div./ Language Requirement Th.M. courses. The Ministry Th.M. is designed to cover A working knowledge of one modern language (other broader categories of study than the Research Th.M. than English) is required. The faculty supervisor must or Ph.D., enabling the student to round out their M.Div. approve the language. The decision as to the language education in preparation for ministry. The Ministry to be learned will take into consideration the student’s Th.M. concentrations are: Biblical Theology & Exegesis; area of specialization, the field language that is Missions & Evangelism; Philosophy, Worldview, & appropriate to his or her missions work, and particular Apologetics; Practical Theology; and Theological & needs. Students for whom English is a second language Historical Studies. may substitute English for the modern language. The Research Th.M. is designed for students interested A student demonstrates a working knowledge of a in pursuing further studies, most likely a Ph.D. The language by earning a passing grade either in a non- Research Th.M. provides the opportunity to broaden credit course offered under faculty supervision or on a and deepen the student’s knowledge in an area of doctoral language proficiency examination. concentration and to produce a significant research paper (thesis), which will be an important step in Comprehensive Examinations pursuing further studies. The Research Th.M. is designed Comprehensive examinations are written examinations as a three-semester course of study. The coursework that correspond to the student’s doctoral study. consists of 26 credit hours, which come from 2 Although doctoral seminars help to develop the introductory courses (Foundations for Theological student’s knowledge, they are not sufficient to acquire Studies and Graduate Research Seminar), M.Div./Th.M. the breadth of knowledge that competency in a field courses, 2 Ph.D. seminars, and the writing of a master’s mandates. Thus, preparation for comprehensive level thesis. The Research Th.M. concentrations are: exams will begin immediately upon acceptance into Biblical Theology; Biblical Studies; Church History; the doctoral program and continue until the time that Missions & Evangelism; New Testament; Old Testament; comprehensive examinations are taken. Guidance Philosophy, Worldview, & Apologetics; Practical toward developing a plan of preparation for the exams Theology; and Systematic Theology. Both of the Ph.D. will be offered by the student’s faculty supervisor. seminars and two of the three Th.M. courses must be A student may not be on Interrupted Status during taken within the concentration area in which the Th.M. is the semester he or she takes the comprehensive being earned. examination. A notice of intention to take the comprehensive examination should be submitted to Program Requirements the Director of the Doctor of Missiology Program at the Ministry Th.M. beginning of the semester when the examination will • 81020 Graduate Research Seminar...... 2 hours be taken. • 81260 Foundations for Theological Study...... 2 hours In order to pass the comprehensive examination, the • Adv M.Div./Th.M. Level Courses student must earn a score of “B” (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). (5 × 4 hours each)...... 20 hours If the student receives a grade lower than a “B”, his Total program credit hours...... 24 hours

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 111 *Up to 2 advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses can be taken If a student requires additional time beyond thirty online (8 credit hours) months, the student must petition for an extension. The petition must be submitted to and approved by Research Th.M. the program director and the student’s faculty mentor. • 81020 Graduate Research Seminar...... 2 hours Students who are granted extensions will be assessed • 81260 Foundations for Theological Study...... 2 hours additional fees for each semester beyond the thirty- • Adv M.Div./Th.M. Level Courses month limit. No student will be allowed to continue (3 × 4 hours each)...... 12 hours beyond forty-eight months in the program. • Ph.D. Seminars (2 × 4 hours each)...... 8 hours • 81050 Thesis Research...... 1 hours Minimum Grade Point In order for a student to receive credit for a research • 81060 Thesis Writing...... 1 hours seminar, he or she must earn a “B” (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). Total program credit hours...... 26 hours Any grade below a “B” results in loss of credit for the course. The student will be placed on probation. *Up to 2 advanced M.Div./Th.M. courses can be taken An additional research seminar grade below a “B” online (8 credit hours) during the following term will result in termination Learning Outcomes from the program. Additional academic evaluations • The student will be able to plan research in an area of are conducted during the entire program of studies to specialization and, where appropriate, will relate the ensure that the student remains capable of completing work to the larger context of theological study. doctoral studies. • The student will be able to conduct research using standard scholarly tools and methods. Deficiencies At the time of admission, a student may be notified of • The student will be able to communicate the results of academic deficiencies and the requirements needed to his/her research effectively. overcome the deficiency. Any such requirements must • The student will be able to demonstrate an advanced be completed before a student begins the program. understanding of an area of specialization. Research Th.M. Thesis Curriculum Plan The Research Th.M. Thesis requires the student to Foundational Year produce a significant research and writing project • 81020 Graduate Research Seminar...... 2 consisting of 12,000 – 15,000 words in length, written • 92000 Theological Foundations for under the supervision of a Th.M. Advisor. Educational Research...... 6 • 92010 Empirical Foundations for Educational Grading Policy Research...... 6 The minimum passing grade in any course taken for Th.M. • 92020 Methodological Foundations for Education and credit is a “B-“ (2.7 on a 4.0 scale). A student who earns a Administration...... 6 grade lower than a “B-“ will lose credit for that course and • 92030 Theological Foundations for Leadership...... 6 will be placed on academic probation. The student may • 42490 Cooperative Program...... 2 also be subject to an enrollment review. Advanced Research Year • 92040 Social and Organizational Change...... 6 Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) • 92050 Human Development and Christian Formation.6 Program • 92060 Critical Reflection and Research Evaluation...... 6 The purpose of the Doctor of Education program is to • 92070 Mentorship and Guided Research...... 6 equip men and women to serve as leaders in church- related educational institutions of higher education and in Thesis the educational ministries of the church. • 92080 Thesis Research and Writing...... 6 • 92090 Thesis Defense...... 4 Residency Requirements The Doctor of Education degree is designed so that Learning Outcomes students are not required to relocate to the main • Students will demonstrate a mastery of the campus. Two weeks of on-campus study are required educational disciplines that is rooted in a graduate- each year, one week in summer and one week in winter. level understanding of the theological disciplines. On-campus seminars are scheduled the last full week • Students will demonstrate the capacity to serve of July and the second full week of January each year. the church, the academy, and the world through Thesis defense will require an additional visit to the leadership and teaching. campus. • Students will apply educational research to solve complex social and organizational problems. Length of Time Allowed The Doctor of Education degree is designed to be Comprehensive Examinations completed in thirty months. This time frame includes Before being scheduled for oral comprehensive all seminars and the thesis. A student must enroll examinations, students must successfully complete four every semester until the thesis has been defended foundational seminars and two advanced seminars. and accepted. Oral comprehensive examinations test the student’s page 112 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 capacities as a problem solver and practitioner scholar faculty mentor. The student’s thesis committee will by focusing on the student’s ability to coordinate and consist of the faculty mentor and a practitioner in the to apply research findings related to his or her research field of study. The student’s research team will also be focus. Although the student’s entire research team will present for the hearing. be present for these examinations, answers are presented The thesis must also be presented to an external individually. The student’s primary mentor will present audience appropriate to the topic, such as (but not two questions; one of these two questions will relate to limited to) the faculty of an educational institution, the student’s thesis topic. A practitioner in the student’s a denominational association, an education-focused field of study will present a third question and will group within a state denominational convention, or a participate in the evaluation of the student’s answers to state or national gathering of educators. the mentor’s questions. To graduate, the student must receive a minimum Each response from the student must last no more grade of “B” (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) on the thesis. A grade of than twenty minutes but no fewer than fifteen minutes. “B-“(2.7 on a 4.0 scale) or below will require the student The student may bring three pages of notes — single to rewrite the thesis and defend again. Failure to pass the spaced with one-inch margins and with a typeface no second submission and defense of the dissertation will smaller than twelve-point Times New Roman to the oral result in forfeiture of the Doctor of Education degree. The comprehensive examinations. thesis, upon completion, is submitted for copyrighting, The student must successfully complete oral digital preservation and binding. comprehensive examinations before his or her thesis It is anticipated that the combined theses from each prospectus can be approved. research group will be published by an academic press with the group’s faculty mentor serving as editor. Thesis Each candidate for the Doctor of Education must successfully complete a thesis based on the candidate’s Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) systematic inquiry into an area of advanced research. Program During the first two foundational seminars, each The Ph.D. is the highest degree offered in North student will be assigned a mentor and a research America. Building on a long heritage at Southern, this topic. The student will also become part of a team of program equips students for advanced scholarship, individuals studying the same topic under the same effective teaching, and missional service in the church mentor. Under the supervision of his or her mentor and and academy. The program is intended to qualify in dialogue with fellow team members, the student will graduates for college or seminary teaching. It may also develop a research question that will form the foundation for his or her thesis. In selected seminars throughout the be used to equip students for the pastorate and other program, students will draft chapters in preparation for church-related ministries. the completion of this thesis. Curriculum The theses developed within each research team will The Ph.D. program is built on three distinct stages build on one another. Together, these interlocking theses through which the student will advance: Th.M. Stage, will provide a solution to some particular problem or will Ph.D. Stage, and Ph.D. Candidacy. demonstrate the validity of a particular approach to an Due to the rigor and structured format of the Ph.D. education or leadership related issue. program, students will earn a Th.M. in a related field in Thesis Prospectus route to earning the Ph.D. Throughout the seminars, the student will develop in Students will begin the program under the guidance consultation with his or her mentor and with other of an assigned Advisor. Upon successful completion of faculty members, a thesis prospectus that includes the the first stage of the program they will be assigned their first chapter of the thesis and summarizes the student’s official Ph.D. supervisor who will guide them through the research question and strategy. The student will rest of the program. defend the thesis prospectus during the course 92070 The Ph.D. can be earned in several different areas Mentorship and Guided Research in a closed hearing with of concentration, which at times have slight variations his or her mentor, one other faculty member, and the in requirements based on the field of study. The Ph.D. members of his or her research team. program consists of a Major area of concentration and The student may not engage in empirical research a Minor area, the latter of which will be the focus on with human subjects until the methodology has been the earned Th.M. degree during the first stage of the approved by the Ethics Committee and until the thesis program. prospectus has been approved by his or her mentor and the seminary faculty. Possible areas of concentration for the Major are: • Apologetics & Worldview* Thesis Defense • Applied Apologetics* The final thesis will focus on one particular research • Biblical Counseling* question and will be 20,000-25,000 words in length. The • Biblical Spirituality* research for the thesis may be text-based or empirical. • Biblical Studies The completed thesis will be defended in an open • Biblical Theology hearing scheduled and supervised by the student’s • Christian Ethics*

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 113 • Christian Missions* • 81260 Foundations for Theological Study...... 2 hours • Christian Philosophy* • Teaching in Higher Ed Contexts (81250)...... 4 hours • Christian Preaching* • Major Area Colloquia...... 8 hours • Christian Worship* • Ph.D. Seminars in Major (5 × 4 hours each)...... 20 hours • Christianity and the Arts* • Ph.D. Seminars in Minor (3 × 4 hours each)...... 12 hours • Church History & Historical Theology • Research Languages/Research Methodology...... 4 hours • Evangelism & Church Growth* • Guided Mentorship...... 1 hour • Family Ministry* • Prospectus Hearing...... 1 hour • Higher Education* • Comprehensive Exams...... 1 hour • Leadership* • Dissertation Writing and Defense...... 16 hours • New Testament Total program credit hours...... 71 hours • Old Testament • Pastoral Theology* Learning Outcomes • Systematic Theology • Students will be able to demonstrate a thorough • World Religions* acquaintance with literature in area of specialization and the ability to engage critically and productively in * These concentrations are offered in a modular format. this area. • Students will be able to demonstrate conversance with Possible areas of concentrations for the Minor (Th.M.) are: the literature in the general field of study and fields • Biblical Theology & Exegesis closely related to the areas of specialization. • Missions & Evangelism* • Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use • Practical Theology* standard research tools and methods in the chosen field • Philosophy, Worldview, & Apologetics* of study. • Theological & Historical Studies • Students will be able to plan and conduct research in the area of specialization and to communicate its results * These concentrations are offered in a modular format. effectively. • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding The Ph.D. course of study consists of several aspects: of the role of the professor inside and outside the Seminars; Colloquia; Guided Mentorship; Research classroom in institutions of Christian higher education. Languages and/or Research Methodology; General Grading Policy Education Courses (Foundations for Theological The minimum passing grade in any course taken for Ph.D. Study; Graduate Research Seminar; Teaching in credit is a “B“ (3.0 on a 4.0 scale). A student who earns a Higher Education Contexts); Comprehensive Exams; grade lower than a “B“ will lose credit for that course and Prospectus Hearing; and a Dissertation. Per approval will be placed on academic probation. The student may some coursework can be completed through also be subject to an enrollment review. Independent Study, either at Southern or through another approved institution. For most of the areas of concentration students will take 5 seminars in their Major and 3 in the Minor. (Some concentrations require 4 and 4, respectively.) For most areas of concentration students will take 4 colloquia in their field as well as the Guided Mentorship class. All students will take the FTS, GRS, and THEC classes (with the exception of the THEC class for Higher Education majors). All students will take comprehensive exams that cover both their Major and Minor, including proficiency in biblical languages where required. All students will be required to present and defend their dissertation proposal prospectus during a scheduled departmental colloquium. All students will write a dissertation that demonstrates the ability to conduct and report on original research. All students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in research languages and/or research methodology courses (Statistics; Research Methodology; Empirical Research.) For variations on these requirements please refer to the current Ph.D. Student Handbook. Program Requirements For most Ph.D. areas of concentration the program will consist of the following requirements: • 81020 Graduate Research Seminar...... 2 hours page 114 | Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry | page 115 AdmissionsCurriculum

Professional Studies • Doctoral Studies “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth.” — 2 Timothy 2:15

Doctor of Education...... 92000-92999 Professional Studies Doctor of Missiology...... 98500-98599 (20000-59999) School of Theology Scripture and Interpretation...... 20000-24990 Professional Studies Theology and Tradition...... 25000-28450 (20000-59990) Worldview and Culture...... 28500-29990 Scripture and Interpretation Ministry and Proclamation...... 30000-31990; 20060 The World of the Old Testament Prophets 40300-40399; 42710; 44560; 44905-44915 from Elijah to Malachi 3 hours Biblical Counseling...... 34000-35599 A study of the social, economic, and religious Biblical Spirituality...... 40150-40199 life of Israel and Judah during the period of

the prophets as revealed by archaeological Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry evidence, especially as such evidence impacts Evangelism and Church Growth...... 32000-32600; the message of the prophets. 44920-44936 Christian Missions...... 30960; 32700-32960; 33000-33500 20080 The Old Testament World and the World Religions...... 32900, 32977-32999 Land of the Bible 3 hours Church Planting...... 33700-33990 A study of the history and geography of the Church and Society...... 36000-37990 Middle East with primary emphasis on the Leadership and Discipleship...... 40080; 41500-42489; history and religion of Israel. Two weeks will be 45100-49999 devoted to a tour of the major Old Testament Church Music and Worship...... 40200-40299; 40600-41099; sites of the Middle East and two weeks in class 50000-59999 lectures. Permission of professor required. * Course 30960 is taught through the Billy Graham School 20100 The Historical Geography of of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry Palestine 3 hours A study of the geography, geology, and climate Doctoral Studies (80000-98999) of Palestine and the biblical world and their Professional Doctoral Studies...... 80000-80980 influence on Old Testament history. Research Doctoral Studies...... 81000-98999 20190 Survey of the Old Testament3 hours General Studies...... 81000-81990 This course will feature a survey of the Old School of Theology...... 82000-85990; 86500-86990; Testament in English Bible, an exposure 87500-87990 to relevant introductory issues, and some Scripture and Interpretation...... 82000-83990; exposure to critical issues. Note: This course 84600-84790 cannot be used as an elective. Theology and Tradition...... 84000-84590; 84791-84990 20200 Introduction to the Old Testament, Part I: Worldview and Culture...... 85200-85990 Pentateuchal and Historical Literature3 hours Ministry and Proclamation...... 86500-86990 An introduction to the Pentateuch and the Biblical Spirituality...... 88900-88980 historical books of the Old Testament in Biblical Theology...... 89950-89999 the English Bible, Genesis through Esther, including an examination of critical, historical, Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry hermeneutical, and theological issues. 86000-86490; 87000-87490; 88000-88790; 89100; 89500-89590; 89900-97060 20220 Introduction to the Old Testament, Part II: Christian Missions...... 86000-86490 The Prophets and Writings 3 hours World Religions...... 88000-88490 An introduction to the Prophets and Writings in Evangelism and Church Growth...... 88500-88790 the English Old Testament, Job through Malachi, Leadership and Discipleship...... 90000-91999; including an examination of critical, historical, 93000-97999 hermeneutical, and theological issues. Biblical Worship...... 98100-98299 20277 Studies in Old Testament 3 hours page 116 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Selected studies in specialized areas within The course will focus on the Hebrew text of this discipline, as designed by a professor and Ecclesiastes. Special attention will be given to offered with administrative approval. the proficient reading of Hebrew, grammatical 20400 Elementary Hebrew 3 hours and syntactical issues, and translation. The An introduction to the Hebrew of the Old course will also explore the relevance of the Testament, including basic grammar, syntax, message of Ecclesiastes for preaching and and vocabulary. teaching in the Church of the 21st century. 20430 Intermediate Hebrew Grammar 20640 Hebrew Exegesis: Psalms 3 hours & Syntax Advanced3 exegesis in the book of Psalmshours with The course will focus on Hebrew grammar at a view to exposition, paying particular attention the intermediate level. The course will move to the nature of Hebrew poetry and the forms beyond elementary Hebrew by covering issues of individual psalms. Prerequisites: 20400 (or of syntax at the word, phrase, and especially, advanced placement) and 20440. the clause, sentence, and discourse levels. The 20680 Hebrew Exegesis: Deuteronomy 3 hours course is intended to bridge the gap between Advanced exegesis in the book of elementary Hebrew and advanced exegesis Deuteronomy with a view to exposition, paying courses. (Appendix A) particular attention to the author’s use of 20440 Hebrew Syntax and Exegesis 3 hours Hebrew rhetorical devices to communicate the A review of Hebrew grammar and syntax. A message of the book. Prerequisites: 20400 (or study of syntax in Genesis 1-11, Amos, Jonah, advanced placement) and 20440. Malachi, Ruth, Esther, and/ or other selected 20685 Hebrew Exegesis: Judges 3 hours texts with a view to implementing exegesis. Advanced exegesis in the book of Judges Prerequisite: 20400 or advanced placement. with a view to exposition, paying particular 20520 Hebrew Composition and Exegesis3 hours attention to the author’s use of Hebrew literary An intensive study of Hebrew syntax, devices to communicate the message of the morphology, and phonology by composing book. Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced classical Hebrew prose and poetry. The placement) and 20440. course will include vocabulary acquisition, 20700 Hebrew Exegesis: Jeremiah 3 hours sentence diagramming, and exegetical/ Advanced exegesis in the book of Jeremiah sermonic outlining. A biblical passage may with a view to exposition, paying particular be exegeted. Note: This course may be taken attention to the literary and rhetorical features as free elective, or in place of one of the used to communicate the prophet’s urgent Old Testament exegesis courses required message. Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced in the Biblical and Theological Studies placement) and 20440. concentration of the M.Div. program. It is 20742 Hebrew Exegesis: Minor Prophets, especially recommended for students with Joel, and Amos 3 hours exceptional interest and ability in Hebrew and This course is designed to engage the for those contemplating doctoral studies in student in detailed exegesis of the Hebrew Old Testament. text of Amos and Joel in the Minor Prophets. 20600 Hebrew Exegesis: Genesis 1-113 hours The primary focus of the course will be Advanced exegesis in Genesis 1-11 with a view translation and recitation, with some emphasis to exposition, paying particular attention to on pronunciation of the Hebrew text. the author’s use of Hebrew literary devices Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced placement) to communicate the message of the book. and 20440. Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced placement) 20800 Hebrew Exegesis: Isaiah 40-663 hours and 20440. Advanced exegesis in Isaiah 40-66 with a view 20611 Hebrew Exegesis: Joshua 3 hours to exposition, paying particular attention to This course will focus on the Hebrew text of literary and rhetorical features employed to Joshua. Special attention will be given to the communicate the composition’s lofty theology. proficient reading of Hebrew, grammatical and Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced placement) syntactical issues, and translation. The course and 20440. will also explore the relevance of the message 20880 Biblical Aramaic 3 hours of Joshua for preaching and teaching in the An introduction to the Aramaic of the Old Church of the 21st century. Testament, including basic grammar, syntax, 20620 Hebrew Exegesis: Isaiah 1-39 3 hours and vocabulary, and exegesis of Aramaic Advanced exegesis in Isaiah 1-39 with a view to sections of the Old Testament with a view to exposition. Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced exposition. Prerequisites: 20400 (or advanced placement) and 20440. placement) and 20440. 20624 Hebrew Exegesis: Ecclesiaste 3 hours

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 117 Note: Unlike the Exegesis courses, the following exposure to critical issues. Note: This course exposition courses have no Hebrew language cannot be used as an elective. prerequisite. 22200 Introduction to the New Testament, 21321 Judges and Ruth 3 hours Part I 3 hours An exposition of Judges and Ruth, two books A study of the materials available for studying that represent widely divergent styles and the life and teachings of Jesus, the transmission theological perspectives on the same historical of the gospel traditions in the early church, the period. Attention will be paid to the distinctive teachings of Jesus, the main events in Jesus’ literary artistry of the authors and on the life, and the quests for the historical Jesus. permanent theological messages of the books. 22220 Introduction to the New Testament, 21600 The Psalms 3 hours Part II 3 hours Expositional studies in the Psalms, with A study of the Acts to Revelation in the consideration of their message for today. framework of the history of the early church. Attention will be given to the special literary 22277 Studies in New Testament 3 hours qualities of the Psalms and the enduring Selected studies in specialized areas within theology of the book. this discipline, as designed by a professor and 21620 The Book of Job and the Wisdom offered with administrative approval. Literature 3 22400 Elementaryhours Greek 3 hours Expositional studies in the books of Job, An introduction to the Greek of the New Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes with special Testament with readings in 1 John and other attention to the history and nature of the selected passages. wisdom literature. 22410 Greek Review 0 hours 21665 Daniel 3 hours A review of the fundamentals of New This course is designed to introduce students Testament Greek, with emphasis on vocabulary to the place of the book of Daniel in Biblical building and morphology. This course is Theology. We will look at Daniel’s contribution designed for students with prior course work in to OT salvation history and then interpret the elementary Greek, who need further language book in light of the Bible’s big story. work before entrance into 22440 Greek Syntax 21830 The Messiah in the Hebrew3 Biblehours and Exegesis. This course will focus on the way the promises 22430 Advanced Greek Grammar 3 hours of the coming redeemer build on each other A comprehensive and systematic study of and prompt OT authors to notice key types phonology, morphology, and syntax of New and patterns which will find their fulfillment in Testament Greek in light of modern linguistic Jesus the Messiah. principles illustrated by readings in the Greek 22060 The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha3 hours of both the New Testament and contemporary A survey of the Jewish apocryphal and documents. This course is especially pseudepigraphical writings with emphasis recommended for students with exceptional on their relevance for understanding the interest and ability in Greek and for those New Testament and its cultural and religious contemplating doctoral studies. Prerequisites: background. 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. 22080 The Life of Jesus and the Land of Note: Either this course or 22480 may be the Bible taken in3 place of one of the three exegesishours A study of the history and geography of courses required in the Biblical and Theological Palestine with primary emphasis upon their emphasis of the M.Div. program, or it may be relationship to the life of Jesus. Part of the time taken as an elective. will be devoted to a tour of the major New 22440 Greek Syntax and Exegesis 3 hours Testament sites of Palestine and part to class A study of intermediate Greek grammar with on campus. Permission of professor required. emphasis on vocabulary building and syntax. 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics 3 hours Philippians or selected readings elsewhere in A study of the history of the English Bible, the New Testament. Prerequisite: 22400 or the goal of biblical interpretation, the advanced placement. presuppositions involved in the interpretation, 22480 The Textual Criticism of the the means of arriving at the meaning of ancient New Testament 3 hours texts along with its present-day implications, An introduction to the history, material, and the formation of the New Testament canon. and methods of textual criticism. Study 22190 Survey of the New Testament3 hours of numerous problems in the Greek text This course will feature a survey of the New where significant variants appear in extant Testament in English Bible, an exposure manuscripts and patristic quotations. to relevant introductory issues, and some Prerequisites: 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. Note: This course may be taken page 118 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 as a free elective, or in place of one of the significant for the understanding of the three exegesis courses required in the Biblical message of the Apostolic Church. Prerequisites: Theological Studies concentration of the M.Div. 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. program. It is especially recommended for Note: Unlike the exegesis courses, the following students with exceptional interest and ability exposition courses have no Greek language in Greek and for those contemplating doctoral prerequisites. studies in New Testament. 22900 The Gospel of Matthew 3 hours 22600 Greek Exegesis: An exposition of the First Gospel with particular The Gospel of Matthewattention to its life situation3 and purpose andhours to An inductive study of the Greek of the Gospel of its message today. Matthew and exegesis of selected passages with attention to literary structure. Prerequisites: 22400 (or 22920 The Gospel of Mark 3 hours An exposition of the Second Gospel with advanced placement) and 22440. particular attention to its presentation of 22620 Greek Exegesis: The Gospel 3of hoursMark the historical ministry of Jesus and to the Exegesis of the Greek text of Mark with distinctive Markan theology. emphasis on the style, literary structure, and theological significance of Mark’s account 22940 The Gospel of Luke 3 hours An exposition of the Third Gospel with of Jesus’ ministry. Prerequisites: 22400 (or particular attention to Lukan theology, to the advanced placement) and 22440. evangelist as historian, and to relevance for the 22640 Greek Exegesis: The Gospel 3 of hoursLuke contemporary church. An inductive study of the Greek of the Gospel of Luke and exegesis of selected passages. 22960 The Gospel of John 3 hours An exposition of the Fourth Gospel with Prerequisites: 22400 (or advance placement) particular attention to its literary structure, and 22440. its distinctive theological emphases, and its 22660 Greek Exegesis: The Gospel 3of hoursJohn relevance for the contemporary church. An inductive study of the Greek of the Gospel of John and exegesis of selected passages. 23000 The Parables of Jesus 3 hours The critical and expository study of the Prerequisite: 22440 parables of Jesus with particular attention to 22680 Greek Exegesis: Romans 3 hours the history of parable research, backgrounds, An inductive study of the Greek of Romans and the Sitz im Buch of the parables, the Sitz im exegesis of the entire Greek text. Prerequisites: Leben Jesu, and contemporary import. 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. 23500 The Pastoral Epistles 3 hours 22720 Greek Exegesis: Ephesians and A critical introduction and exposition of the Colossians 3 letters tohours Timothy and Titus with consideration An exegesis of the Greek text of Ephesians with of contemporary ecclesiology. particular attention to vocabulary, style, and literary relationship to Colossians. Prerequisites: 23600 Acts 3 hours An introduction to the history of research on 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. the Acts of the Apostles and an interpretation 22760 Greek Exegesis: 1 Peter 3 hours of the text from the perspective of the writer’s An intensive exegesis of the Greek text with major emphases and purposes. emphasis on the perspective, literary structure, and relevance of the epistle. Prerequisites: 23680 Hebrews 3 hours An exposition of Hebrews with particular 22400 (or advanced placement) and 22440. attention to the persecution setting, 22780 Greek Exegesis: James 3 hours theological themes, backgrounds, and the An exegesis of the Greek text of James with problem of communication of its message to particular attention to the vocabulary, style, the contemporary world. and analysis of leading concepts and their relevance. Prerequisites: 22400 (or advanced 23720 The Petrine Epistles and Jude3 hours A critical introduction and exposition of the placement) and 22440. Letters of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude in light 22790 Greek Exegesis: of their probable backgrounds with attention The Revelation of to literaryJohn structure, literary3 relationships, andhours Introduction, translation, and exegesis of relevance. the Greek text against the background of apocalyptic literature and the life situation in 23740 The Johannine Epistles 3 hours An exposition of the text with special which it was written. Prerequisites: 22400 (or consideration of historical situation, structural advanced placement) and 22440. analysis, and relevance. 22800 Greek Exegesis: Selected Texts3 hours Translation and exegesis of passages of the 23790 The Revelation of John 3 hours Introduction and exposition of the text against Greek New Testament which are especially

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 119 the background of apocalyptic literature and perspective on living coram Deo In each of the life situation in which it was written. these areas of thought is also highlighted. Note: Courses 27700, 27800, and 27820 25230are allEarly Christian Spirituality 3 hours courses under the Division of Scripture and A detailed study of two major traditions of Interpretation. Christian spirituality in the period between the Apostolic Fathers (2nd century A.D.) and the end of the Patristic era (8th century Theology and Tradition A.D.). Particular focus is placed upon Christian 25100 Introduction to Church History, Part I: spirituality in the Greek and Latin patristic The Early Church to the Reformation3 hours traditions. The course will cover the history of 25235 Theology of Augustine 3 hours Christianity from its inception to the A study of the theology of Augustine in Protestant Reformation (1600). the context of his personal development 25120 Introduction to Church History, Part II: and in light of the controversies of his day. The Reformation and the Church in the Special attention will be given to reading the Modern Period 3Confession and the City hoursof God along with This course will focus on four major areas selected treatises. of study in the modern period: the history 25270 Studies in Patristic Christianity3 hours of Protestantism, the origin and history of A study of some of the writings (In Baptists, the history of Roman Catholicism, translation) of the Greek, Latin, and and American church history. Syriac Church Fathers, and their overall 25140 Advanced Church History 3 hours theological contribution to Christian doctrine, An advanced survey and interpretation of especially as It relates to Trinitarian doctrine, the history of Christianity from its inception ecclesiology, the Bible, mission, and the to the modern period. May not be taken for theology of history. credit if 25100 and 25120 have been or will 25800 The Reformation 3 hours be taken. A study of the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, 25170 The Bible in the Modern 3 Worldhours Radical, and Roman Catholic phases of the A study of the history of biblical sixteenth-century Reformation. interpretation from the Enlightenment to 25820 Puritanism 3 hours the present with special attention to the A consideration of the formative theological intellectual and cultural background of major literature of Puritanism, its antecedents in the developments and to the relation between Continental and English Reformations, and some issues of biblical interpretation and issues of of its consequences in the “New England Way.” biblical authority. 25830 Christianity and the Enlightenment 3 hours 25177 Studies in Church History 3 hours A study of the emergence of rationalism and Selected studies in specialized areas within criticism in the seventeenth and eighteenth this discipline, as designed by a professor and centuries with special attention to their impact offered with administrative approval. on Christian thought and biblical criticism. 25205 The Ancient Church In It’s 25920 Calvin and the Reformed Tradition3 hours Graeco-Roman Context 3 A study ofhours the life and theology of John This course leads the student through a Calvin. attention will focus on Calvin’s role in detailed study of the nexus of political and the development of Reformed Protestantism philosophical perspectives and religious and as well as his distinctive contribution to social attitudes of the Graeco-Roman world Reformation theology. Readings will include In which the Ancient Church developed up selections from Calvin’s commentaries, until the Constantinian revolution In the early letters, polemical and theological treatises, fourth century. At the heart of the course Is and Institutes. the hands-on examination of primary sources, both Christian and pagan. 26050 History of British Christianity3 hours A study of the history of Christianity in Britain 25215 The Cappadocian Achievement 3 hours from the Roman Empire to the present with A detailed study of certain aspects of the special attention to theological developments. theology of the Cappadocian Fathers-namely Basil of Caesarea (c.330-379), Gregory of 26100 History of the Baptists 3 hours Nazianzus (c. 329-389/390), Gregory of A study of Baptist origins, development, Nyssa (c. 335-c. 395), and Amphilochius of principles, leaders, and current trends. Iconium (c. 340-395)— arguably among the 26200 The Southern Baptist Heritage most Influential theologians of the Greek- and Mission 3 hours speaking Ancient Church. The Cappodocian A study of the character and mission of Fathers’ Interaction with Scripture and their Southern Baptists, including the history page 120 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 and contemporary character of theological and Scripture, God, humanity, sin, Christ, Holy commitments, church practices, gospel witness Spirit, salvation, the church, and last things. and cooperative endeavors. This course cannot be used as an elective. 26410 Jonathan Edwards 3 hours 27050 Introduction to This course centers on the life and thought of Christian Theology 3 hours Jonathan Edwards. The main areas of study A study of the doctrines of Christian theology include a biographical survey of Edwards, the and their systematic interrelationship with theological and philosophical background emphasis on precision in theological thought of Edwards, his contribution to the Great and expression. May not be taken for credit if Awakening, an analysis of his sermonic 27060, 27070, and/or 27080 have been or will material, and his theological, philosophical, and be taken. ethical writing. 27060 Systematic Theology I 3 hours 26420 Jonathan Edwards and Andrew Fuller3 hours A careful and systematic study of Christian This course is a detailed study of certain doctrines, covering introduction to theology, aspects of the theologies of Jonathan revelation and Scripture, and the existence, Edwards and Andrew Fuller such as the attributes, and triune nature of God. atonement, the Trinity, conversion and revival. Their piety as well as their response 27070 Systematic Theology II 3 hours A careful and systematic study of Christian to various erroneous perspectives, such as doctrines, covering creation and providence, Deism, Arminianism, Hyper-Calvinism, and angels, humanity, sin, and the person and Sandemanianism will be discussed. work of Christ. 26430 American Church History 3 hours 27077 Issues in Biblical and Systematic Theology3 This course covers the history of Christianity hours in America from the time of colonization to A study of the nature of biblical theology and the present. The focus of attention will be on its relationship to systematic theology with the milieu of Evangelical Protestantism and a special focus on a theological reading of issues in American Catholicism that affect Scripture, as practiced by evangelicals today. evangelical witness. 27080 Systematic Theology III 3 hours 26480 History of American Revivalism3 hours A careful and systematic study of Christian A study of revivalism in America from the doctrines, covering the person and work of the Great Awakening through the “Electronic Holy Spirit, salvation, the church, and last things. Church.” Historical conditions for awakening, outstanding personalities, and the development 27120 The Doctrine of the Holy 3 Spirithours of institutional revivalism will be examined. A biblical, historical, and systematic study is undertaken of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. 26490 Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism3 hours Special attention will be given to contemporary A study of the origins and development of issues related to the rise of the Pentecostal fundamentalist and evangelical movements in and Charismatic movements. Scripture’s own American Christianity, including consideration teaching will be brought to bear in examining of how Southern Baptists related to the two historical and contemporary issues, e.g., and assessment of their successes and failures. the filioque controversy, the relation of the 26700 The African-American Church in Spirit and the Son both in eternity and in the Historical Perspective 3 incarnation, thehours baptism in the Holy Spirit, gifts The purpose of this course is to trace the of the Spirit, and walking in the Spirit. developments of African-American church histories in America with a major focus upon 27177 Studies in Theology 3 hours African-American Baptist histories. Other Selected studies in specialized areas within denominational histories are presented in the this discipline, as designed by a professor and degree of their relative importance. Some offered with administrative approval. attention will also be given to non-Christian 27320 The Doctrine of Humanity 3and hoursSin black religious experiences as they have Biblical and historical studies on the origin, developed in the twentieth century. This course nature, and destiny of humanity with special is also numbered 37200. reference to current views on anthropology. 26720 Classics of Christian Devotion3 hours 27340 Models of Divine Providence 3 hours A historical and interpretative study A study is undertaken of the Christian of selected devotional literature of the doctrine of divine providence, God’s Christian church with some reflections on its providential preservation of and governmental contemporary relevance. rulership over the world he has created. 27000 Survey of Systematic Theology3 hours The examination of several models of divine A survey of the whole corpus of systematic providence will assist the exploration of theology, covering the doctrines of revelation several critical issues, e.g., the eternal will and

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 121 purposes of God, human volition and moral 27430 Models of Sanctification 3 hours responsibility, the role of prayer, God’s call This course involves an investigation of several to labor within his kingdom’s rule, the reality models of sanctification held within Christian of miracles, and the problems and purposes movements and denominations today. Students involved in suffering and affliction. will examine and evaluate these models biblically, historically, and theologically, with 27350 The Doctrine of Revelation the goal of developing their own proposals for and Scripture 3 hours understanding the doctrine of sanctification. Study is here undertaken of the epistemological foundation of the Christian faith through the 27620 The Doctrine of Last Things3 hours doctrines of divine revelation broadly, and then A study of those doctrines pertaining to last of the Scriptures as special revelation, the only things as defined by classical theology: the final and ultimate authority for Christian faith, kingdom of God, judgment, death, millennial life, and practice. Historical, philosophical, and perspectives, heaven and hell. An overview of contemporary issues will be examined with contemporary perspectives on eschatology will ultimate care given to understand Scripture’s be presented. own witness to these doctrines. 27640 The Doctrine of the Church3 hours 27360 The Doctrine of God 3 hours A critical study of the doctrine of the church Aspects of God’s existence, attributes, triune and its ministry in Christian theology, giving nature, and work are examined, with focused careful attention to the biblical traditions, the attention being given to certain issues of historical development of ecclesiology, and the historical, philosophical, biblical, and/or areas which are pertinent for contemporary contemporary importance. God’s self-revelation Baptist ecclesiology. in Scripture will be given primacy in seeking to 27700 A Biblical Theology of Worship3 hours grapple with our finite understandings of this An examination of worship in the Bible, both Old infinite God. and New Testaments, with a view to developing a theology of worship that is consistent with 27370 The Doctrine of the Trinity3 hours the teachings of Scripture. Special attention will Focused study is here given to the crucial be paid to the appropriate application of this doctrine of God’s triune being. Attention will theology for the church today. be given to the history and outcome of the early church’s struggles to formulate Trinitarian 27710 Worship Leadership 3 hours doctrine, along with issues related to various This course is a study of the theology and ways this doctrine is being reexamined and practice of worship. It is designed to help reformulated today. Scripture’s own teachings the student develop a biblical and practical will be given primacy in considering how framework for planning and leading worship. contemporary Christians should understand 27800 Theology of the Old Testament3 hours and articulate this foundational doctrine. A study of primary theological themes of the Old Testament (e.g., the kingdom of 27380 The Doctrine of Salvation 3 hours God, covenant, Messiah, atonement and The central conviction that God has graciously reconciliation, promise and fulfillment, faith, planned and carried out the salvation of the coming of the Lord), exploring both the sinners will be given focused study. Aspect of distinctive perspectives represented by specific the doctrine will be emphasized, e.g., issues compositions, and the manner in which the involved in divine election, the nature of Old Testament lays foundation for the biblical saving faith, justification by faith, positional witness as a whole. The course will include and progressive sanctification, the necessity an introduction to the history of and current of preserving faith, and the eternal security of trends in the theological interpretation of the those who savingly believe. Old Testament. 27400 The Doctrine of the Person 3 of hoursChrist 27820 Theology of the New Testament3 hours A study of the definitive issues (biblically, A study of primary theological themes of theologically, and historically) for interpreting the New Testament (e.g., the kingdom of the person of Jesus Christ, analyzing the God, covenant, Messiah, atonement and various Christological traditions of the Church reconciliation, promise and fulfillment, faith, and the major contemporary options for the coming of the Lord), exploring both the conceptualizing the Incarnation. distinctive perspectives represented by specific 27425 The Doctrine of the Work 3 ofhours Christ compositions and the manner in which the New A study of the Old Testament sacrificial system Testament presents Christ as the fulfillment, and and Christian perspectives on atonement. culmination of the biblical witness as a whole. Special attention will be given to New Testament The course will include an introduction to the texts relevant to a biblical and theological history of and current trends in the theological understanding of the death of Christ. interpretation of the New Testament. page 122 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 27885 Introduction to Historical Theology3 hours 28415 Theology of the Body 3 hours This course is a topical-chronological study of An exploration of the teaching of Scripture the development of Christian doctrine. Each of concerning life in the human body with the key theological loci covered in systematic the goal of developing a systematic and theology (the doctrines of Scripture, God, practical theology of physical existence humanity and sin, Jesus Christ and the Holy from conception through eternity. Topics Spirit, redemption, the church, and the last to be covered include the creation of the things) will be considered chronologically body (both in a global and personal sense), In terms of their historical and theological a survey of attitudes toward the body development. throughout history, the “gendered” body, the 27930 Theology of Marriage 3 hours sexual body, the disciplined body, the body This course is a survey of the biblical, and the worship of God, clothing the body, theological, historical, and cultural the sanctification of the body, the suffering development of marriage within Christianity, and healing of the body, the death of the including a consideration of gender, human body, the eschatological body (the body in sexuality, and family structure. the intermediate state, the resurrection of the body, the body in the millennium, and 27935 Adoption in Christian Thought the body in the new heavens and earth), and Mission and 3current issues regarding the hoursbody This course is an interdisciplinary study (cloning, abortion, euthanasia, etc.). This of the theological, ethical, missiological, course will also consider insights into the ecclesiological, psychological, and pastoral body’s functioning and development from issues related to adoption and orphan care. the disciplines of nutrition and exercise 28110 Christianity in a Pluralistic and physiology. Postmodern Society 3 hours The challenge of philosophical pluralism and 28420 Baptist Theologians in Historical postmodernism to traditional Christianity is Perspective 3 hours A study of selected Baptist theologians studied. The roots of postmodern thinking are in their historical context, examining the examined and the influence of these ideas upon currents which shaped their thought and the various theological traditions reviewed. contributions of each theologian to church 28180 Contemporary Theology 3 hours and ministry. A study of the dominant theological movements of the twentieth century, with 28450 The Theology of Cults and special attention given to the Enlightenment, New Religious Movements 3 hours The theological perspectives of certain new Neo-orthodoxy, Liberalism, Theology of Hope, religious movements will be explored and Liberation Theologies, Process Theology, and evaluated including apocalyptic groups, Evangelical Theology. psychological groups, groups merging from 28230 Pentecostal and world religions other than Christianity, and Charismatic Theologies groups aimed primarily3 at young people.hours This course will be a historical, hermeneutical, and theological exposition of Pentecostal and charismatic theologies through history, with Worldview and Culture primary focus on the twentieth century. It 28500 Worldview and Apologetics 3 hours will also be evaluative of the theological and A study of the rational defense of Christianity, hermeneutical soundness of various aspects of including evaluation of the evidence for faith, the movements, and will address the world- the significant objections to it, the major wide impact of these theologies and how that worldviews and the relationship of faith and affects missiology. reason. 28250 The Theology of Karl Barth3 hours 28510 History of Philosophy I: Classical An examination of Barth’s theology with a and Medieval 3 hours view to understanding his interpretation of the A survey and critique of the major Western Christian faith and his significance in twentieth- philosophers and their ideas in the classical century theology. and medieval periods, from the Pre-socratics through the late medieval era to the 28410 Theology of Work 3 hours Renaissance and Reformation. This course will develop a theology of work that explores the relationship between faith and 28520 History of Philosophy II: vocation. It will examine the biblical, historical Modern and Postmodern 3 hours and theological foundations for work. It will A survey and critique of the major Western also reflect on how to apply a theology of work philosophers and their ideas in the modern to daily life and equip the church to reflect a and contemporary (or postmodern) periods right view of vocation in the life of its members. from the Renaissance to the present.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 123 28550 Christian Philosophical-Worldview includes a biblical perspective of the visual Analysis 3 arts, the usehours of the visual arts in the history This course offers students a worldview of the church, important artists in the analysis of the disciplines of economics, Christian tradition, issues and concerns in politics, education, law, and the sciences from a contemporary art, and visual art in the life biblical perspective. and ministry of the local church. 28577 Studies in Philosophy 3 hours 28912 Jesus and Modern Culture 3 hours Selected studies in specialized areas within A study and critique of modern portrayals this discipline, as designed by a professor and of Jesus in popular culture. The course offered with administrative approval. includes Jesus and world religions (Buddhism, 28600 Faith, Reason, and Authority 3 hours Hinduism, Islam, Judaism), Jesus and modern A historical study of Christian epistemology theology, Jesus and Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus and a contemporary reconstruction directed and modern art, Jesus and film, and Jesus and toward establishing a foundation for faith popular music. and an apologetic posture in the modern 28914 Christianity and Literature 3 hours world, with special attention to the theory of An exploration of the relationship between knowledge, the historic approaches to faith and Christianity, literature, and the imagination reason, natural theology and revealed theology, with an emphasis on pilgrimage as a Christian and the problem of religious authority. literary theme. The course includes a biblical 28677 Studies in Apologetics 3 hours perspective of literature and the imagination; Selected studies in specialized areas within the history of Christian pilgrimage; and an this discipline, as designed by a professor and in-depth study of the literary works Brendan offered with administrative approval. the Navigator, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, C. S. Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress, 28700 Christian Apologetics in and select poetry of T. S. Eliot. Contemporary Ministry 3 hours 28915 Aesthetics 3 hours Various approaches to the apologetic task An exploration of Christianity and Aesthetics will be investigated. Attention will be given from the early church to the present. to the systematic and rational defense of the Christian faith against many serious 28916 Christianity and Film 3 hours contemporary challenges. Topics include such A study of the relationship between areas as tests for truth, a critique of relativism Christianity and film. The course includes and pluralism, the problem of miracles, the history of film, the nature of film and and the historicity of the Christian faith. A filmmaking, theological dimensions of film, primary aim of the course will be the practical film analysis and critique, and the Jesus film application of apologetics in the church’s genre. ministry. 28917 Visual Art and the Protestant 28720 The Problem of Evil 3 hours Tradition 3 hours A study of the problem of evil and its An exploration of the visual arts and the philosophical challenge to religious thought, Protestant tradition. The course includes the with a focus on classical theodicies and iconoclastic controversy of the Protestant on contemporary debates concerning the Reformation, important Protestant visual implications of evil for the question of the artists and their work, visual art and existence of God and of the logical coherence Protestant worship, and the history of of theism. Protestantism and the rise of modern visual culture. 28860 God and the Philosophers 3 hours A study of the major concepts of God in 28918 Christianity and Science Fiction3 hours philosophical thought, the perennial debate on A study of the relationship between the coherence of theism, and the classical and Christianity and the science fiction genre. The contemporary arguments for the existence of course will explore the history, nature, and God, with special reference to pivotal thinkers theological dimensions of science fiction as from Thomas Aquinas to contemporary well as the Christian science fiction tradition. analytical philosophers. 28950 Christianity, Truth and Culture3 hours 28910 Christianity and the Arts 3 hours An investigation of and Christian worldview An exploration of ways in which Christianity has analysis of “high” as well as popular culture interfaced with the fabric of Western culture. and cultural movements as exemplified An examination of contemporary interaction in areas such as literature, the press, the between Christianity and the fine arts. educational system, film, TV, art and music. 28911 Christianity and the Visual 3 Artshours 28960 Christian Doctrine and the A study of the relationship between Natural Sciences 3 hours Christianity and the visual arts. The course page 124 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 An exploration of how Christian doctrine A study of the legal issues facing churches, has been influenced and shaped by modern pastors, lay church members, and para-church science, including how such theological organizations. concepts as miracles, theodicy, judgment, 28984 Augustine and the Political 3 Orderhours creation, absolutes, sovereignty, and mind, A study of the teachings of Augustine’s have been influenced by such scientific political thought, examining texts in historical, ideas as natural law, deep time, uniformity, philosophical, and social context, for the evolution, relativity, chance, and brain. modern church and world. 28961 Origins 3 hours 29250 Survey of Christian Ethics 3 hours This course examines theological and An introduction to Christian ethics, with scientific perspectives on the origin of the attention given to methodology, biblical physical and biological world, ranging from foundations, types of Christian ethical thought, theistic evolution to young-age creationism, and Christian responsibility in relation to engaging relevant issues of epistemology, current social problems. theology, and philosophy of science. 29300 Biblical Ethics 3 hours 28962 The Natural Sciences and the An examination of the biblical foundations of Local Church Christian3 ethics focusing on thehours major ethical Designed to aid those who minister in the teachings of the Old and New Testaments and local church in bringing science into the biblical motifs in contemporary ethical thought. service of the kingdom. An examination 29477 Studies in Ethics 3 hours of the true nature of science, the proper Selected studies in specialized areas within interaction between science and Christianity, this discipline, as designed by a professor and and the utilization of science in worship, offered with administrative approval. evangelism, obedience, and sanctification. 29550 Christian Discipleship in 28963 History of Interaction Between Secular Society 3 hours Science and Theology A study 3of urgent ethical issueshours in the church’s This course is an introduction to the history ministry to persons caught in the cross- of the interaction between the study of the pressures of secular society, with concentration physical world (science) and the study of God on the economic debate, racism, sexism, (theology). It touches on the religion/science violence, Christian community, and shaping of interaction in other cultures, then surveys the the church’s mission in the world. history of that interaction in western culture from Greek antiquity through the origin of 29560 The Black Church and Social3 Justicehours This course is concerned with the role of the modern science to modern times. African-American church and contemporary 28970 Critical Thinking and the Art issues: domestic, economic, political, and of Argumentation 3 social. Particular attentionhours will be given to the An introduction to formal and informal responsibility of the Church vis-a-vis these logic with special reference to reasoning issues. and the art of argument construction in the 29580 Christian Ethics and the Environment3 hours theological disciplines. A study of biblical and theological 28980 History of Christian Legal and perspectives on the environment and human Political Thought 3 responsibility for it. Specialhours attention will be An historical survey of two millennia of given to the ecological crisis and its causes Christian thought on the rule of law, the (e.g., greed, overconsumption, technology), political order, church and state, rights and as well as solutions offered from within a duties of individuals and institutions. Christian worldview. 28981 The Protestant Reformation and 29600 Christian Ethics and Biomedical Political Thought 3 Issues hours 3 hours An historical survey of Christian thought on the A study of ethical issues raised by the church’s role in the public sphere and on the biomedical revolution in light of biblical proper uses of the law. and theological perspectives. Topics 28982 Church-State Relations and to be examined include the use of Religious Liberty in American3 hoursLife technology, abortion, infertility treatments, A study of the history of church-state relations experimentation with research subjects, and in American theory and practice; and the euthanasia in the context of appropriate critical contemporary issues in church-state medical practice and patient treatment. relations in the United States today. 29700 The Church, the World, and 3 Politicshours 28983 Contemporary Legal Issues and A study of the mission of the church, political the Church theology,3 and the contemporary Americanhours

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 125 political scene. Attention is given to Christian Selected studies in specialized areas within social strategy, Catholic and Protestant, with this discipline, as designed by a professor and reference to political issues. offered with administrative approval. 29720 Christian Ethical Perspectives on War 30200 Worship in the African-American and Peace Church3 hours3 hours A study of Christian perspectives on war and This course, through practical observation, peace. Particular attention is given to the reading, recordings, and dialogues, analyzes traditions of pacifism and just war in the light worship in the African-American Church of biblical, theological, and philosophical tradition. Special attention is given to reflection. both music and homiletics as media in the 29740 Church-State Relations 3 hours African-American Church. This course is also A study of the theories of church-state numbered 37500. relations, past and present, and the critical 30360 Expository Preaching 3 hours issues in church-state relations in the United A course designed to give the student States today. experience in applying knowledge of 29850 Christian Ethics and the Family3 hours exegetical and homiletical principles and A study of the family from biblical and techniques through the preparation of theological perspectives. Attention will be expository sermons. given to issues such as the role of the family 30370 Preaching from the Old Testament3 hours in society, contemporary challenges to the Students will be guided in preparing sermons traditional family, marriage, divorce and from a selected Old Testament book. remarriage, contraception and reproductive technologies. 30560 Biblical Preaching 3 hours A study of homiletical methods required for 29860 Christian Ethics and Human Sexuality3 hours preaching on different types of biblical texts. A study of human sexuality from a Christian This approach is made with special attention worldview perspective. Attention will be given to the hermeneutical task. to issues such as a theology of sexuality, the sexual revolution and contemporary 30600 Preaching to Life Situations 3 hours An exploration of the resources, models, perspectives about sex, as well as singleness and methods of preaching to the life needs and celibacy, marriage, divorce and of people. Special attention will be given to remarriage, procreation and contraception, preaching to the crisis of grief and death as abortion, and reproductive technology. well as other life problems. Preaching in the context of worship services for communion, Ministry and Proclamation baptism, and wEd.D.ings will also be 30000 Christian Preaching 3 hours examined. A basic course in principles of preaching as 30620 Doctrinal Preaching 3 hours they relate to exegesis of the Hebrew and An examination of the methods and skills of Greek texts, context, content, application, preaching Christian doctrine. Attention will be structure, style, and delivery of sermons. This focused on the preparation and communication course is offered to men only and is designed of some of the cardinal theological themes of to prepare for a preaching ministry in local the Christian faith for preaching. congregations. Women will substitute course 31980 Written Communication 2 hours 45400. This course is designed to help students 30020 Preaching Practicum 3 hours improve their writing style and develop a Sermons by students who are preparing for sense of confidence, a degree of competence, a preaching ministry will be analyzed and and criteria for evaluating their writing and evaluated by the instructor using live and video the writing of others. The semester will techniques with attention given to biblical include a review of the basic mechanics of content, organization, application, style, and writing (grammar, punctuation), a review of delivery. Prerequisite: 30000. Women will composition skills, and an introduction to substitute from courses 45450, 46515, or 48100. specific needs for writing in seminary. 30060 Preaching in a Pastoral Context3 hours Non-Credit. A course designed to aid in the discipline of 34030 Medical Issues in Ministry 3 hours preaching in a pastoral setting. Attention will This course will incorporate a theological and be given to the philosophy and planning of practical study of pertinent medical issues worship, planning pulpit work, gathering and in pastoral ministry. Broad overviews of use of preaching materials, and varying types topics including anatomy and physiology will of preaching. enable more effective ministry in key hospital 30177 Studies in Preaching 3 hours settings (Emergency Department, Labor page 126 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 and Delivery, Surgery, Intensive Care and with practical training on how to integrate a General Medical Wards). The goal will be the counseling ministry with the other activities of application of these insights into the practice the local church. Prerequisite: 34300. of one’s pastoral and/or counseling ministry. 34330 Typical Problems 34090 Counseling and Human Development 3 hours in Biblical 3 Counseling hours This class will explore the major modern This course is designed to apply the biblical and Christian developmental theories, the principles taught in the Methods and Skills class application of developmental theory and to a range of specific counseling problems. research to counseling, all within a Topics discussed include fear, sexual sins, Christian worldview. depression, anxiety, eating problems, decision- 34300 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 3 hours making, suffering, views of self, life-dominating This course is a basic introduction to biblical sins, handling one’s past, and crisis counseling. counseling theory and techniques. Attention Prerequisite: 34300. is focused on how the Scriptures and 34335 Gender, Marriage, and Sexuality3 hours theology form the foundation and substance This course examines issues of human gender, for Biblical counseling. sexuality, and male-female relatedness from the 34305 Biblical and Theological Foundations perspective of biblical counseling. The course for Counseling will3 address foundational issueshours of biblical This course will explore the main theological masculinity and femininity, dating, courtship, and biblical themes of the Christian faith that marriage, headship and submission, sexuality, bear on the biblical counseling task. This and procreation. Prerequisite: 34300. course will relate a biblical worldview to the 34820 Biblical Counseling and Human Crisis 3 hours claims of modern psychological theory and A psychological and theological study of major will provide a theoretical basis for church- life crises such as accidents, disasters, dying, based biblical counseling. Prerequisite: 34300. grief, divorce and remarriage, addictions, physical and mental illness. 34310 Essential Qualities of the Biblical Counselor 35077 3 Studies in hoursBiblical Counseling3 hours This course will equip biblical counselors Selected studies in specialized areas within to cultivate the Christ-like character and this discipline, as designed by a professor and qualities of the discipler/counselor. The offered with administrative approval. course will focus on a thorough knowledge 35100 Marriage and Family Counseling3 hours of biblical content about the life and practice This course will be an examination of family of a discipler, how this content applies and problems including marriage, parenting, and relates to one’s personal life as a counselor, financial issues. Attention will also be directed and how to develop skills in implementing to pre-marital counseling. Pre-requisite 34300. these truths into one’s life. 35160 Marriage and Family Enrichment3 hours 34315 Contemporary Models of Counseling 3 hours An experiential involvement in marriage This course surveys major secular and and family enrichment. The principles and Christian counseling theories and examines methods for developing models of marriage the essential components of a biblical and family enrichment applicable to the local understanding of psychology and counseling. church will emerge from this experience and The course will apply insights into the from theoretical materials. Spouses or fiancés implications of these models for the life of the must participate in this course. Students are church and the task of the Great Commission. expected to participate in the life of a local 34320 Christian Theories of the Person3 hours congregation for a minimum of 3 hours per This course will explore the biblical and week. Permission of professor required. theological foundations of the nature of 35530 Reformational Counseling Training3 Ihours personhood and the meaning of human This course provides practical training in the existence as it relates to the task of biblical methods of reformational counseling, soul- counseling. The course will examine how care based on the theology of the magisterial alternative viewpoints of the meaning of Reformation in its Baptist form. The course will life and the centrality of the “self” express also assist the student in addressing personal/ themselves in terms of human spiritual and relational issues that can get in the way of emotional health. people-helping. The teaching of this course 34325 The Care of Souls in the Congregation 3 hours (RCT I) will focus on specific counseling This course will equip pastors and church modalities. Taking this course satisfies the leaders to implement biblical counseling AME requirements in various programs in the ministry into the life of a local congregation. seminary. Prerequisite: 34300 or 35000 The biblical and theological reasons for church- 35540 Reformational Counseling Training 3 II hours based counseling will be emphasized, along This course provides practical training in the

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 127 methods of reformational counseling, soul- will be provided for the student in obtaining care based on the theology of the magisterial counseling appointments. Reformation in its Baptist form. The course will 35595 Biblical Counseling Portfolio 0 hours also assist the student in addressing personal/ The Biblical Counseling Portfolio course is relational issues that can get in the way of restricted to final-year students in the M.A. people-helping. The teaching of this course in Biblical Counseling program. This required (RCT II) will focus on how to address specific course is used to gather selected student psychospiritual disorders in counseling. Taking assignments created in the students’ counseling this course satisfies the AME requirements in courses into a portfolio. The counseling faculty various programs in the seminary. Prerequisite: use these portfolios for program assessment 34300 or 35000 and improvement. Grading is pass/fail. 35585 Counseling Observations 40150 Personal Spiritual Disciplines 3 hours and Practicum An3 integrative approach to Christianhours This course is designed to help the student to spirituality emphasizing biblical, classical, and apply principles of Biblical Counseling learned contemporary materials. This course will assist in other counseling courses. Effective Biblical the student in personal discipleship through Counseling is not just a matter of knowing spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Scripture what the Bible teaches about counseling memory, Bible study, fasting, journaling, and related issues; it is also a matter of knowing personal evangelism. how to effectively use that information in order to help people. In other words, 40151 Personal Spiritual Disciplines II: counseling involves skill in practice as well as Prayer and Disciple-making 3 hours A scriptural approach to Christian spirituality knowledge of Biblical content. Prerequisites: utilizing biblical, classical, and contemporary 34300, 34330, 35100. This course is only materials. This course will assist the student in taught in the Fall Semester. pursuing intimacy with and conformity to Jesus 35590 Counseling Internships 3 hours Christ through the personal spiritual disciplines This course is designed to provide a found in Scripture, with special emphasis on supervised and evaluated internship. It prayer and making disciples of Jesus Christ. consists of at least two counseling sessions of The course Personal Spiritual Disciplines observed and practiced counseling per week. (40150) is a prerequisite to this course, as this Consequently, all assignments and teaching course further develops biblical principals and in counseling courses will be aimed not practices taught in 40150. merely at giving Biblical content, but also at developing in students the skill to understand 40155 Congregational Spiritual Disciplines3 hours This course is designed to promote the and apply Scripture in very practical and student’s understanding, practice, and specific ways to the issues of life. A majority teaching of spirituality in the life of the church. of the work done for this class will be done Through readings, discussion, research outside of the class meeting time. The projects, and lectures the student will learn to practice of counseling involves applied nurture interdependent spirituality within the theology, so this class is to encourage careful, context of our contemporary culture. critical thought in the proper application of biblical truth to the serious problems of 40160 Great Christian Lives 3 hours people’s lives. Prerequisites: 34300, 34330, Through reading and discussion of the 34335, 35585. This course is only taught in biographies of great saints, as well as through the Spring semester. lectures and related assignments, the student will learn Christ likeness from the heroes of 35591 Counseling Internships II 3 hours church history. This course is designed to provide an extended supervised and evaluated 40165 Evangelical and Baptist Spirituality3 hours internship experience. It consists of 25-30 This course is a detailed study of the piety counseling sessions throughout the of the British Calvinistic Baptist community semester. Consequently, all assignments between its origins in the tumultuous years and teaching in counseling courses will be of the midseventeenth century and the close aimed not merely at giving biblical content, of the Victorian era. Key themes that are but also at developing in students the skill treated include: the centrality of the Scriptures to understand and apply Scripture in very and the resulting spirituality of the Word; practical and specific ways to the issues conversionism; the community’s Trinitarian of life. The practice of counseling involves and Christocentric piety; the spirituality of applied theology, so this class is to encourage baptism and the Lord’s Supper; the theology of careful, critical thought in the proper prayer, praing for revival, and the emergence application of biblical truth to the serious of the modern missionary movement; and the problems of people’s lives. Some assistance community’s eschatological piety. page 128 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 40170 The Psalms and Christian Spirituality4 hours will enhance the students understanding and Expositional studies in the Psalms, with practice of proclamation. Pre-approval required. consideration of their message for Christian Spirituality. Attention will be given to the special literary qualities of the Psalms and the Evangelism and Missions enduring theology of the book. 30960 Intercultural Communication 3 hours Study of elements operative upon individuals, 40175 Medieval and Reformation Spirituality 3 hours Medieval and Reformation Spirituality groups, organizations, and larger societal is a survey of major forms of Christian units as they attempt to communicate in an spirituality from roughly 650-1630 including intercultural context. Emphasis is upon increase developments within the Catholic Church and of fidelity and effectiveness of intercultural early Protestant responses. communication. 40301 Pastoral Ministry 3 hours 32040 Advanced Studies in Evangelism The course is a guide to the integration of and Church Growth 3 hours theological and practical aspects of ministry, An advanced study of evangelistic church designed to aid the student’s transition growth, with a particular focus on diagnosing to full-time ministry in a church-related church health and strategizing to build a Great vocation. Congregational leadership issues Commission church. Emphasis is given to the are emphasized, including relational skills, biblical and theological foundation necessary administration, financial stewardship, staff for growing an evangelistic church. management, worship planning, wEd.D.ings, 32060 Building an Evangelistic Church3 hours funerals, baptisms, and the Lord’s Supper. A study of significant components 40370 Advanced M.Div. Thesis Research2 hours needed to develop an evangelistic church. Supervised research on a thesis topic. Emphasis is given to biblical, theological, 40375 Advanced M.Div. Thesis Writing2 hours and methodological principles as a frame Final research and writing of a thesis under the of reference to consider the church’s supervision of a professor in the field of the understanding of its context, mission thesis topic. Prerequisite: 44560. statement, potential leadership, evangelistic methods and programs. 44560 Supervised Research Experience2 hours The SRE is designed for those who undergo 32080 Evangelism and Disciple-making 3 hours faculty-supervised library research, generally A study of the relationships between evangelism for the purpose of writing a thesis or major and spiritual growth in the Christian experience paper. This SRE requires that the student’s and discipleship. Emphasis will be placed on plan of research and project be approved the means of effecting and maintaining spiritual by the Advanced M.Div. Director and carried formation in recent converts. out by an approved faculty advisor. Intended 32100 Personal Evangelism 3 hours primarily for Advanced Master of Divinity An in-depth study of personal evangelism students. designed to equip students to understand 44905 Applied Ministry: Extension Centers1 hour the cultural context in which they minister, to Applied Ministry is a field education class in share the gospel effectively in that context, which the student obtains practical ministry to respond appropriately to the issues raised experience under the supervision of a qualified as they share the gospel, and to train others minister at an eligible site. Full details are in a variety of skills related to the Great provided in the Applied Ministry Handbook on Commission mandate. the seminary’s website. 32160 Evangelistic Preaching 3 hours 44910 Applied Ministry: Theology 1 hour An intensive study of how to prepare and Applied Ministry is a field education class in preach an evangelistic sermon. The course which the student obtains practical ministry includes the history of evangelistic preaching, experience under the supervision of a qualified basic homiletics, the theology of evangelism minister at an eligible site. Full details are and sermon content, follow-up to evangelistic provided in the Applied Ministry Handbook on preaching, and the actual delivery of an the seminary’s website. evangelistic sermon. Women will substitute 44915 Integrative Seminar II: Proclamation6 hours from courses 45450, 46515, or 48100. An intensive supervised ministry experience 32177 Topics in Evangelism and focused on the development of preaching Church Growth 3 hours competencies and consisting of the following: Selected studies in specialized areas within ministry service in a pre-approved setting, this discipline, as designed by a professor and involvement in a formal church-based offered with administrative approval. internship/pastoral training program, and 32200 Contemporary Evangelism 3 hours appropriate academic requirements which

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 129 A detailed study of current trends and societies, and the mission of the church. opportunities in evangelism, with special 32900 Cults and Minority Religions attention to effective, innovative evangelism in America 3 hours ministries in specific churches and movements. A historical and critical study of American 32210 The Ministry of the Itinerant Evangelist 3 hours religious minorities such as Mormonism, A study of the ministry of the itinerant Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’i evangelist considering biblical, historical and and others. theological principles, reflecting on significant 32960 Introduction to Missiology 3 hours contemporary issues, and examining the An evaluation of missiological thought with a relevance of the role of the itinerant evangelist in view to developing a contemporary theology of the life of the church. mission: the what, why, and how of missions. 32260 The Theology of Evangelism 3 hours 32977 Studies in World Religions 3 hours This course examines the practical implications Selected studies in specialized areas within of theology for the task of evangelism and this discipline, as designed by a professor and critiques contemporary theological perspectives offered with administrative approval. and evangelistic methodologies in relation to one another. 32980 World Religions and Christian Missions 3 hours 32300 The Principles of Spiritual An objective study of the world’s most Awakenings 3 prominenthours religions with the specific intent of The history and the theological/biblical identifying effective missiological methods and principles involved in awakenings and the relevant missiological concerns in evangelizing sociological milieu from which they emerged. those who adhere to these religions. 32310 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism 32985 History and Religion of Islam3 hours and Missions This3 course has a double focus. Thehours course is An examination of spiritual warfare, with a a historical study of Islamic civilization from its particular focus on the relationship between origins up to the modern era and a study of the warfare and evangelism and missions. foundational religious doctrines and practices Attention is given to the biblical, historical, and of the Islamic tradition, for the purpose of contemporary perspectives of spiritual conflict. reaching Muslims more effectively with the 32330 Urban Missions 3 hours gospel. The course will consist of lectures, An introduction to the theology and practice of readings, and student presentations. missions in global urban contexts, with particular 32986 Issues in Contemporary Islam3 hours emphasis on the missiological implications of This course deals with various substantive urbanization and urban cultures. issues facing the Islamic tradition in the modern 32340 Cross Cultural Evangelism 3 hours world in order to develop effective missiological This course presents a study of the process methods in evangelizing Muslims. The specific and practice of cross cultural evangelism issues will vary but will include: Islamic based on biblical and theological principles fundamentalism, Islam and terrorism, Islamic and the needs of a multicultural world modernism the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, setting. Special emphasis will be placed on Islamic missions to non-Muslims, and Islam in using Chronological Bible Story Telling (Bible the West. 32985 is highly recommended before Storying) in missions settings. taking this course. 32400 Field Involvement: 32990 Islam and the Christian Mission3 hours Local Church Evangelism This course3 is a study ofhours Christian missionary A research and laboratory training course outreach to Muslim peoples. The course will in church-centered evangelism. Professor’s examine the history of Christian missions to permission required. Islam, models of missionary methodology, 32750 History of Christian Missions 3 hours evangelistic approaches that have been used An intensive study of the worldwide expansion with Muslims, and contextualization issues. The of Christianity from apostolic times to the course will consist of lectures, readings, guest present. speakers with practical missionary experience in the Muslim world, videos, and student 32860 The Biblical Basis of presentations. 32985 is highly recommended Christian Missions 3 before taking this class.hours A missiological study of the Old and New Testament, with special attention being 32995 Introduction to Modern Arabic3 hoursI focused on socio-human issues of justice and An introduction to Modern Standard Arabic liberation, and salvific themes of redemption (MSA) and the Levantine dialect with a focus and spiritual renewal, as these relate to on the four language skills (listening, reading, the mission of God, the mission of human writing, and speaking) and a study of Arab culture and civilization. page 130 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 32996 Introduction to Modern Arabic3 hoursII religious heritage, and the structure of A continuation of Arabic 1, focusing on the Southern Baptist missions in a specific four language skills, listening,reading, writing geographic region of the world. Emphasis and speaking, with a study of Arab culture and will be given to needs and opportunities for civilization. (Prerequisite: 32995). missions service on this field. 33000 Cultural Anthropology 3 hours 33190 Community Development and Disaster A sociological study of the institution of Response Missions and 3 Ministryhours culture. The purpose is to enable students to A review and study of human needs missions understand their own culture and prepare them and the biblical support of such missions in to relate to persons of another culture and to order to develop a contemporary approach to share the Gospel therein. human needs mission work. 33005 Ethnographic Research 3 hours 33200 Missions in North America 3 hours Ethnographic qualitative research focuses A study of the contemporary scene in on understanding and describing human Southern Baptist North American missions, cultures and intercultural interaction rather including considerations regarding a strategy than traditional experimental, empirical, and for an effective mission to America. statistical (quantitative) research. The central 33410 Language Learning for Missionaries3 hours purpose of the course will be to explore various This course is a specialized course for methods, resources, and tools for ethnographic students involved in the Master of Divinity research and worldview identification in order in Missions with emphasis in International to make the most effective use of them in Church Planting. The course will be field fulfilling the Great Commission. based; that is, the course will be taught on 33010 Communication in Oral Cultures3 hours an international mission field. The course of This course concentrates upon effective study will be supervised by a member of the interaction with cultures of “primary oral missions department, but the actual teaching learners”; i.e., preliterate people groups that are will be provided by missionaries and nationals further characterized by a relational approach designated by the International Mission Board. to life and non-linear, non-abstract thought The purpose of the course is to teach the patterns. The course seeks to prepare students church planter interns to speak at a basic level to communicate with, teach, and interact in their target culture. with preliterate oral culture people groups in 33420 Cultural Acquisition for Missionaries3 hours culturally appropriate ways utilizing narrative This course is a specialized course for and oral tradition communication patterns. students in the Master of Divinity in Missions 33020 Leadership in Intercultural Contexts3 hours with emphasis in International Church A study of the nature of Christian leadership, Planting. The course will be field-based; primarily in the context of international that is, the course will be taught on an missions. Substantial attention is given to international mission field. The course of various character qualities and leadership study will be supervised by a member of the competencies necessary for effectiveness missions department, but the actual teaching in cross-cultural ministry. This course is will be provided by missionaries and nationals also designed to deal with issues related designated by the International Mission to discipling and equipping new Christians Board. The purpose of the course is to for church leadership. It also deals with the teach the church planter interns to function processes and procedures related to advanced appropriately in their target culture. strategic planning and team ministry. 33430 Migrations and the Modern Diaspora3 hours 33060, Field Seminar in Church Planting3 hours each A study of people groups in America in urban 33080 An off-campus learning experience in whichsettings, with attention given to foreign born students will participate in new church starts populations and the role of the church in the city. under the direction of a professor and a mentor 33450 Field Research in Missions 3 hours in the field. The experience may be either in This is a field-based course that offers students North America or abroad. Permission of the the opportunity to engage in missions research. professor is required. Students will be required to travel to an off- 33100 Principles and Practice of 3Missions hours campus site to study an ethnolinguistic group A topical study of critical principles in Christian and gauge their responsiveness to the gospel. missions and missionary life. Topics include 33477 Topics in Missions 3 hours calling, preparation, family life, theological Selected studies in specialized areas within education/pastoral training, strategy this discipline, as designed by a professor and development, etc. offered with administrative approval. 33150 Area Study in Christian Missions3 hours 33550 Ministry to Hispanics 3 hours An analysis of the cultural environment, This course is designed to prepare the

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 131 student for ministry to the burgeoning 33877 Studies in Church Planting 3 hours Hispanic population in the United States and Selected studies in specialized areas within the twenty-one countries of Latin America. this discipline, as designed by a professor and It includes an orientation to the Spanish offered with administrative approval. language for ministry and evangelism as well 44920 Applied Ministry: BGS 1 hour as the challenges common to Latin America Applied Ministry is a field education class in cultures such as Roman Catholicism and which the student obtains practical ministry immigration. experience under the supervision of a qualified 33700 Business as Mission 3 hours minister at an eligible site. Full details are The purpose of this course is to explore provided in the Applied Ministry Handbook on the theological, ethical and missiological the seminary’s website. issues involved in Business as Mission. The 44930 Applied Ministry: student will read key texts on the topic that Mission Trips/Partnerships 1 hour explore Business as Mission from a variety Applied Ministry is a field education class in of viewpoints, interact with practitioners of which the student obtains practical ministry Business as Mission, and conduct research on experience under the supervision of a qualified a specific aspect of Business as Mission. minister at an eligible site. Full details are 33820 Introduction to Church Planting3 hours provided in the Applied Ministry Handbook on This course is a study of the biblical and the seminary’s website. missiological principles of church planting. 44936 Integrative Seminar III: Outreach6 hours Though this course is focused on church An intensive supervised ministry experience planting principles, particular emphasis will be focused on the development of competencies placed on the practical implementation of such related to effective outreach/missions and principles. Students will also be introduced consisting of the following: ministry service to the respective church planting degree in a pre-approved setting, involvement in programs of the North American Mission Board a formal church-based internship/pastoral and the International Mission Board. training program, and appropriate academic 33830 Interculutural Church Planting 3 hours requirements which will enhance the student’s This advanced course in church planting understanding and practice of outreach and addresses the biblical basis, missiological missions. Pre-approval required. principles, and methods necessary for planting indigenous churches, with an emphasis on the Church and Society cultural context. 36300 City Context for Christian 3Ministry hours 33840 Models of Church Planting 3 hours A sociological, anthropological, and theological This is an advanced course in church planting. analysis of the urban church and the variety Students will study and evaluate several of communities it serves throughout the city. different models of church planting in light Emphasis will be given to the understandings of biblical and missiological principles. of the city from its central business district to Prerequisite: 33820 or 33830. suburbia and exurbia and how the church and 33850 Principles and Methods of missionaries can minister and evangelize in all Local Church Growth of these settings.3 hours An integrated study of socio-economic 36450 Ministry/Evangelism: factors, organizational structures, and biblical A Holistic Approach to 3 the hoursGospel principles that influence assimilation or loss of Emphasis will be given to the complementary church members. nature of ministry and evangelism. A holistic 33855 Apologetics in the Local Church3 hours approach to witnessing will be central to the A study of the role of apologetics in the local course material. Class time will be given to church. Emphasis is given to understanding evangelism, forms of Christian ministry, church ways of integrating apologetics training into involvement in the community, and the biblical/ the teaching ministry of the church. Attention theological basis for holistic ministry. Case will also be given to understanding how the studies of churches practicing holistic ministry/ intrinsic life of the local church can be an evangelism will be used to give practical apologetic for the faith. application of the course material. 33860 Church Multiplication Strategies 3 hours 36500 Church Action in the Community3 hours An advanced course in church planting An exploration of the multiple forms of focusing on the missiological (biblical, Christian ministry and social action whereby theological, and strategic) foundations of a church can have impact on its community church multiplication. Particular attention through creative strategies of evangelism will be given to reproducing churches among and intentional, aggressive social interaction. people groups and people group segments. Special attention will be given to the (1) page 132 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 theological foundations for social concern, (2) leading skills and evaluation in a lab setting. an analysis of the social organizations related to This course will also explore issues such as church concerns, and (3) how the church can working with pastors, instrumentalists, and involve itself within the community context. tech teams in worship. 36550 Introduction to Church Revitalization 3 hours40625 Vocal Ensemble Leadership 2 hours An examination of the ministry of revitalizing A brief study of vocal pedagogy and its plateaued and declining churches that moves application in choral and vocal ensemble from biblical and theological foundations to settings. This course will also include practical application including the utilization traditional choral technique practices as well of case studies. Particular attention will be as helpful methods for working with vocalists given to the issues of leading change in on praise teams. Students in this course the church, conflict management, ministry will need college level skills in conducting contextualization, and increasing church technique. evangelistic effectiveness. 40630 Worship Band Techniques 2 hours 37600 The Ministry of the Black 3 Churchhours This course will facilitate a foundational The origin, development, distinctives, and understanding of worship band instruments contributions of the Black Church. Particular so that the student will be equipped to work attention is given to contemporary trends, with instrumentalists in church music settings. with an emphasis upon Black Baptists. Also included: assessing instrumental needs Opportunities for contact with Black churches of the church, finding literature, securing and church persons are provided during the players, scheduling and rehearsing. Students course. This course is also numbered 40400. in this course will need college level skills in 37650 Pastoral Care in the Urban3 Contexthours conducting technique. An examination of contemporary pastoral care 40635 Technology for Music and issues, models, and techniques utilized in the Worship Ministry 2 hours context of the church serving primarily the Basic understanding of church sound systems, urban and African-American community. lighting systems, projection systems, projection software, and using video in the worship Church Music and Worship service. Includes field trips to area churches to observe technology in use. 40200 The Worshiping Church 3 hours A study of Christian worship, its biblical 40636 Recording Techniques for roots, its historical development, the impact Worship Leaders I 2 hours of the Reformation and the liturgical revival; This course is a study of recording techniques a comparative study of contemporary and methods that will help worship leaders denominational worship patterns, the selection record hymns and other worship songs for of worship materials, planning orders of their local church’s congregation. Students in worship, inter-staff participation in worship in this course will learn how to record digitally relation to preaching, evangelism, music, and with industry standard recording software, the spiritual growth of participants. how to edit, process, and mix layered recordings as well as microphone techniques. 40220 Christian Worship in Through study in each of these areas, students Contemporary Culture 3 will have thehours tools needed to easily record and A study of Christian worship and its arts in disseminate new worship songs for the local relation to contemporary culture. church and beyond. 40605 Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual 3Songs hours 40640 Worship Resources 1 hour A survey of congregational psalmody, An overview of resources for music ministers: hymnody, and contemporary worship songs. discovering new choral music, worship songs, 40610 Discipling Music Ministry I 2 hours instrumental music, helpful ministry software, Developing a philosophy of music and worship and internet resources. ministry. This course will also explore a team approach to music ministry, organizational 40645 Vocal Skills for Worship Minors1 hour principles, and effective music ministry This course is intended to present and make methods. application of basic principles of singing technique. This course is designed for voice 40615 Discipling Music Ministry II 2 hours proficiency students whose primary interest for A continuation of Discipling Music Ministry improving their singing is to lead in worship. I with an emphasis on working with There are no prerequisites. preschoolers, children and students. 40651 Music Theory I 2 hours 40620 Worship Leadership and Design2 hours An introduction to the fundamentals of music, A class focused on platform worship incorporating music notation, pitch and simply leadership. Practical application of worship chord construction.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 133 40652 Music Theory II 2 hours have completed the first semester of Guitar A review of fundamentals by an intensive study Band Lab. Entering students may take a of common practice harmony; proceeds to proficiency to determine if they can bypass secondary dominant chords and elementary the Level I course and proceed to Level II. modulation. 40685 Worship Band Lab: Keyboard ½ II hour 40653 Music Theory III 2 hours To provide hands on, laboratory-based A continuation of Music Theory II, proceeding instruction on the instruments of the modern through all diatonic seventh chords, some rhythm band (Keyboard) with the purpose of altered and borrowed chords, and elementary equipping the student with the skills necessary modulations. to effectively teach and rehearse the modern 40661 Aural Skills I 1 hour rhythm section for worship in the local church. Aural Skills I focuses on the development of Keyboard Level II is for students who have basic skills in sight-singing and ear training. completed the first semester of Keyboard Band Lab. Entering students may take a 40662 Aural Skills II 1 hour proficiency to determine if they can bypass Aural Skills II further develops skills established the Level I course and proceed to Level II. skills in sight-singing and ear training. 40686 Worship Band Lab: Bass Guitar½ hourII 40663 Aural Skills III 1 hour To provide hands on, laboratory-based Advanced studies in ear training and instruction on the instruments of the modern sight-singing. rhythm band (bass guitar) with the purpose of 40670 Songwriting for Worship Leaders2 hours equipping the student with the skills necessary This course is a study of songwriting to effectively teach and rehearse the modern techniques and song style as it relates to rhythm section for worship in the local church. writing songs for the worshiping church. Bass Guitar Level II is for students who have 40680 Worship Band Lab: Guitar ½ hour completed the first semester of Bass Guitar Provides hands on, laboratory-based Band Lab, Level I. Entering students may take instruction on the instruments of the modern a proficiency to determine if they can bypass rhythm band (guitar) with the purpose of the Level I course and proceed to Level II. equipping the student with the skills necessary 40687 Worship Band Lab: Drum Set½ hourII to effectively teach and rehearse the modern To provide hands on, laboratory-based rhythm section for worship in local church. instruction on the instruments of the modern 40681 Worship Band Lab: Keyboard ½ hour rhythm band (drum set) with the purpose of Provides hands on, laboratory-based equipping the student with the skills necessary instruction on the instruments of the modern to effectively teach and rehearse the modern rhythm band (keyboard) with the purpose of rhythm section for worship in the local church. equipping the student with the skills necessary The level II course is for students who have to effectively teach and rehearse the modern completed the first semester of Drum Set rhythm section for worship in local church. Band Lab, Level I. Entering students may take a proficiency to determine if they can bypass 40682 Worship Band Lab: Bass Guitar½ hour the Level I course and proceed to Level II. Provides hands on, laboratory-based instruction on the instruments of the modern 40693 Worship Leadership Field Education: rhythm band (bass guitar) with the purpose of Leadership 1 hour equipping the student with the skills necessary Worship leadership field education at an to effectively teach and rehearse the modern approved site church under the supervision rhythm section for worship in local church. of a field supervisor. This course includes on-campus classes as well as required service 40683 Worship Band Lab: Drum Set½ hour in a church setting in the area of music Provides hands on, laboratory-based ministry and worship. This semester of field instruction on the instruments of the modern education is focused on worship leadership. rhythm band (drum set) with the purpose of equipping the student with the skills necessary 40694 Worship Leadership Field Education: to effectively teach and rehearse the modern Current Trends in Worship 1 hour rhythm section for worship in local church. This course includes on-campus classes as well as required service in a church setting in the 40684 Worship Band Lab: Guitar ½II hour area of music ministry and worship. Worship To provide hands on, laboratory-based leadership/ministry service will take place at instruction on the instruments of the modern an approved site church under the supervision rhythm band (guitar) with the purpose of of a field supervisor. equipping the student with the skills necessary to effectively teach and rehearse the modern 41016 Integrative Seminar in Church Music rhythm section for worship in the local church. and Worship 1 hour Guitar Band Lab Level II is for students who A capstone course for church music and worship page 134 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 students to be taken in the last semester of partial tuition waiver for participation in this study. Theology, ministry, music, and worship group. This group will travel several times during courses are synthesized, with concentration on the year as a recruiting team for the school. No writing a philosophy of church music, résumé course fee. writing, interviewing, and preparing a worship 50985 Southern Seminary Worship Band1 hour video project. Prerequisite: 44992 An ensemble consisting of praise band 41095 Ethnodoxology in Christian Ministry3 hours instrumentalists and two or three vocalists A foundational course introducing theoretical providing worship leadership for seminary and practical tools for church planters and chapel and other occasions. No course fee. worship facilitators to serve more effectively 50985 Chapel Orchestra 1 hour in cross-cultural worship ministry, whether The instrumental ensemble that provides overseas or in multi-ethnic North American service music for Tuesday chapel. One-hour churches. Covers missiological framework rehearsal and weekly chapel. No course fee. for music and arts in multicultural and cross- cultural church contexts, field research and 51490 Graduate Review of Music 3Theory hours A review and synthesis of aural and written interviewing, analysis of song lyrics, models skills taught in the undergraduate music theory for research and practice, and a body of curriculum, with the aim of strengthening worship music from diverse world music music theory competencies through unifying traditions. Congregational Song in World intellectual and aural knowledge. Includes Cultures (41090) recommended but not studies in harmony/part-writing, micro- and required. Music reading skills not required. macro-listening, sight singing, keyboard 50004 Musicianship IV 3 hours harmony, and music analysis. Permission of the This course is a continuation of Musicianship III, professor is required. incorporating all skills developed in preceding musicianship courses, and proceeding through 51660 Instrumental Transcription and advanced chromatic harmony and foreign Arranging 2 hours Writing for homogeneous instrumental modulations, more elaborate musical forms, ensembles—brass, string, and woodwind— with continued development of contrapuntal according to the “4+” format. Pieces are skills. Some exposure to 20th century melody, recorded and reviewed. rhythm, and harmony, including serial techniques. Prerequisite: 50003 Musicianship III. 51700 Private Instruction in Composition2 hours For composition majors. One-half hour private 50220 Orchestration 2 hours lesson. Function and use of the major instruments. Basic transposition and instrumentation. 52490 Graduate Music History Review3 hours Offered in fall semesters only. An intensive review course of the development of Western art music from antiquity through 50310 Music History and Literature the present. Prerequisite: one or more through the Baroque 3 hours semesters of undergraduate music history. Music development and literature from pre- Christian times through Baroque period. 52600 Graduate Conducting 2 hours Fall semester. Assuming a basic command of manual technique, emphasis here is given to elements 50320 Music History and Literature of internalization, musical judgment, and group after the Baroque 3 hours dynamics. Music development and literature after the Baroque to the present. Spring semester. 52700 Private Instruction in Conducting2 hours For conducting majors. One-half hour private 50355 Introduction to Conducting 2 hours lesson. An introduction to basic conducting patterns and skills with an emphasis on directing 52950 Seminar in Conducting 2 hours congregational singing. Appropriate for 54605 Research and Writing in Church Music2 hours students with no formal musical training. Methodologies and resources for research School of Church Ministries students who are preparatory to thesis, project, and dissertation required to take 52600 Graduate Conducting writing. Offered in spring semesters only. will not receive graduate credit for this course. 55000 Pre-Graduate Minor: Voice 1 hour 50740 Southern Seminary Chorale 1 hour Private study for voice minors. One-half hour A chorale group providing worship leadership private lesson. for seminary chapel and other occasions. No 55010 Pre-Graduate Major: Voice 2 hours course fee. Private study. Forty-five minute private lessons. 50770 Doxology Voice Ensemble 1 hour 55040 Pre-Graduate Class for Minors: Voice1 hour I A vocal ensemble of 9 students performing Fundamentals of vocal production. Each a wide range of traditional choral and semester. contemporary music. Students will receive a

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 135 55050 Pre-Graduate Class for Minors: Voice 1II hour 57900 Graduate Recital: Piano 1 hour Fundamentals of vocal production continued. Seven hours of private instruction. 55100 Private Study: Voice 1 hour 58050 Pre-Graduate Major: Woodwind 2 hours One-half hour private lesson. Forty-five minute private lesson per week or 55120 M.C.M. Concentration: Voice 2 hours one-half hour lesson and a pedagogy session. Vocal technique and literature. Forty-five 58060 Pre-Graduate Major: Brass 2 hours minutes of instruction weekly. Forty-five minute private lesson per week or 55130 Voice Applied Concentration for one-half hour lesson and a pedagogy session. Worship Leadership 580702 Pre-Graduate hoursMajor: String 2 hours Private voice lessons for students who declare Forty-five minute private lesson per week or Voice as their principal applied area for one-half hour lesson and a pedagogy session. Worship degree programs. The course provides 58080 Pre-Graduate Major: Percussion 2 hours 10.5 hours of private lesson time per semester, Forty-five minute private lesson per week or plus a 50-minute required voice studio class one-half hour lesson and a pedagogy session. during each week of the term. 58100 Private Study: Woodwind 1 hour 55600 Graduate Diction 1 hour One-half hour private lesson. Phonetics as applied to the singing of foreign languages. 58110 Private Study: Brass 1 hour One-half hour private lesson. 55900 Graduate Recital: Voice 1 hour Seven hours of private instruction. 58120 Private Study: String 1 hour One-half hour private lesson. 56000 Pre-Graduate Minor: Organ 1 hour Private lessons for students who have met 58130 Private Study: Percussion 1 hour One-half hour private lesson. minimum keyboard proficiency. One-half hour private lesson. 58150 M.C.M. Concentration: Woodwind2 hours May include recital requirements. One-half hour 56010 Pre-Graduate Major: Organ 2 hours private lesson. One hour pedagogy session. Private study. Forty-five minute private lesson per week. One hour repertoire class. 58160 M.C.M. Concentration: Brass 2 hours May include recital requirements. One-half hour 56100 Private Study: Organ 1 hour private lesson. One hour pedagogy session. One-half hour private lesson. 58170 M.C.M. Concentration: String 2 hours 56120 M.C.M. Concentration: Organ 2 hours May include recital requirements. One-half to Advanced techniques. Forty-five minutes of three-quarter hour private lesson; may include instruction weekly. pedagogy instruction. 56900 Graduate Recital: Organ 1 hour Seven hours of private instruction. 58180 M.C.M. Concentration: Percussion2 hours May include recital requirements. One-half to 57000 Pre-Graduate Minor: Piano 1 hour three-quarter hour private lesson; may include Private piano for beginning and advanced pedagogy instruction. piano minors. One-half hour private lesson. 58450 Instrumental Applied Concentration 57010 Pre-Graduate Major: Piano 2 hours for Worship Leadership 2 hours 57050 Pre-Graduate Class: Piano I 1 hour Private instrument instruction for students 57060 Pre-Graduate Class: Piano II 1 hour who declare guitar or an orchestral instrument as their principal applied area for Worship 57070 Pre-Graduate Class: Piano III 1 hour degree programs. The course provides 10.5 57080 Pre-Graduate Class: Piano IV 1 hour hours of private lesson time per semester, plus 57100 Private Study: Piano 1 hour a 50-minute required studio class during each Study for the student who has completed pre- week of the term. graduate piano. One-half hour private lesson. 58900 Graduate Recital: Woodwind 1 hour 57120 M.C.M. Concentration: Piano 2 hours Seven hours of private instruction. Advanced techniques. Forty-five minutes of 58910 Graduate Recital: Brass 1 hour instruction weekly. Seven hours of private instruction. 57130 Piano Applied Concentration for 58920 Graduate Recital: String 1 hour Worship Leadership 2 Seven hours of privatehours instruction. Private piano instruction for students who 58930 Graduate Recital: Percussion 1 hour declare Piano as their principal applied area for Seven hours of private instruction. Worship degree programs. The course provides 10.5 hours of private lesson time per semester, plus a 50-minute required studio class during Leadership and Discipleship each week of the term. 34340 Parenting and Family Issues 3 hours page 136 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 This course examines issues of childrearing of the Cooperative Program. We will reflect and family discipleship from the perspective on such matters as the basis and structure of biblical counseling. The course addresses of cooperation, the most effective means to foundational issues of the distinctive roles of accomplish the Great Commission, and the the father and mother in the rearing of children, central role of the Cooperative Program in discipline, adoption, conflict resolution, Southern Baptist missionary efforts. education, and character development. 42710 The Southern Baptist Convention 40080 Christian Leadership 3 hours Annual Meeting 3 hours A study of the nature of Christian leadership in A study of the Southern Baptist Convention the context of the local church ministry. The and its decision-making processes through church as an organism and an organization participation in the annual meeting of the is examined. The nature and purpose of Southern Baptist Convention. Students will the church is analyzed. Essential character attend the pre-convention sessions as well qualities and leadership competencies are as sessions of the convention, and discussion developed. Special attention is given to the and evaluation sessions both during the skills necessary to guiding the local church convention and in regularly scheduled class through various elements of change and discussions. obstacles toward biblical effectiveness. 43000 Ministries to College Students3 hours 41500 Role of the Associate Minister3 hours A study of ministries with college students in A practical study of the person and work of church and campus settings. Attention is given the Minister of Education on a local church to both traditional and non-traditional college staff. Focus is upon personal and professional students. History and philosophy of and characteristics which enhance effective current approaches to student ministry are functioning, as well as upon required skills, addressed. A four-day mission/observation expectations, and ministry problems and trip may be required. possibilities. 43200, Campus Ministry Internship3 hours each 41700 The Role of the Minister to Children43220 An internship program designed to afford and Families ministry3 experience under closehours supervision A study of the role of ministers to children and for the student who contemplates serving in directors in children’s programs, including day campus ministry or in some other ministry care and church kindergartens. The objectives, in a college-oriented community upon methods, materials, and trends of church graduation. A student who is accepted as an programs for children will be reviewed. enrollee in the program is required to serve 41800 Introduction to Youth and in a paid college-oriented position under Family Ministry the3 direction of an approvedhours field supervisor An examination of various designs for for a period of nine months. Permission of developing a biblically based, purpose driven, professor required. church ministry for contemporary youth. The 43400 The Christian Faith and the University3 hours personal integrity, professional qualities, skills, A study of the contemporary university and ministry problems and expectations of the the relation of religion to its function as well Minister of Youth are examined. as significant aspects implicit in formulating 42210 Team Ministry Relations 3 hours a Christian philosophy of higher education. An analysis of servant leader roles and Areas of creative tension between church and ministry team dynamics in a multiple-staff university are considered. ministry in the local church. 43450 Discipleship in College Ministry3 hours 42410 Dynamics of Organizational This course explores the principles and Leadership 3 methodshours of spiritual maturing in the lives A study of the principles and practices for of late adolescents. Investigation of the effectively managing the business affairs of psychological, developmental, social, and a church. Financial management, budgeting, environmental factors which influence spiritual office supervision, personnel administration, development in college students. Special building construction and maintenance, food attention is given to exploring the biblical service, and related areas are explored. and theological foundations for discipleship 42450 Change and Conflict Management3 hours in college ministry and making application to An analysis of the leadership role of the the discipleship process. Models and other minister in managing change and conflict. paradigms for small group ministry to college Principles for leading organizational change students are also discussed. and diffusing conflict are examined. 43500 College Ministry Field 42490 Cooperative Program 2 hours Education: Survey ½ hour A study of the history, character, and purpose An experiential learning introduction of

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 137 field education at a SCM approved site. This the single person, the couple with no children, course gives the student the opportunity and parents of children in various stages of to serve a minimum of five hours per week development. Attention is given to the needs observing and participating in an effective of each form of family and how the church college ministry under the guidance of can help meet those needs through education, a tenured college ministry professional. program design, and other ministries. Prerequisite: First-year Status, interview with 45400 Christian Teaching 3 hours SCM College Ministry Coordinator. An exploration of instructional designs and 44720 Internship in CE and Leadership6 hours teaching resources for creative and effective An intensive supervised ministry experience bible teaching in the local church and other consisting of full-time service in a pre-approved ministry contexts. setting different from the fieldwork settings 45700 Education of the Preschool 3 Childhours of the supervised ministry experiences. Pre- A study of the relation of patterns of approval required. social, emotional, physical, cognitive, 44790 Integrative Seminar I: Leadership6 hours and spiritual growth of young children to An intensive supervised ministry experience educational principles. Emphasis is first focused on the development of leadership placed on development of growth, then on competencies and consisting of the following: learning activities, materials, and equipment ministry service in a pre-approved setting, appropriate to teaching young children. involvement in a formal church-based Observation and participation competencies internship/ministerial training program, and are developed within the context of church appropriate academic requirements which program organizations in the church. will enhance the student’s understanding of 45760 Education of the School Age Child: ministerial leadership. Pre-approval required. Grades One to Six 3 hours 45100 Issues and Trends in Leadership A study of the growth characteristics and and Discipleship 3 needs of children of ageshours 6-12, as related to An analysis of contemporary issues in educational principles. Emphasis is first placed Christian education and ministry leadership, on development of growth, then on learning and an evaluation of proposed ministry activities, materials, and equipment appropriate responses. to teaching school age children. Observation and participation competencies are developed 45150 Worldview, Culture, and Discipleship3 hours under supervision of faculties of programs for A study of the Biblical and theological younger, middle, and older children. foundations of education, developing a philosophy of education based upon those 45800 Discipling Children 3 hours foundations. From the perspective of a Biblical A study of the spiritual development of worldview, various philosophies of education children from birth through eleven years of and the historical practices of education will age. The relationship of moral and spiritual be considered and critiqued. development to curricular materials of church organizations is examined. 45200 Research and Statistics 3 hours A study intended to acquaint the student with 45810 Effective Communication evaluation and measurement in education with Children 3 hours with the application of research method to This course is designed to give students a educational research. Includes examination laboratory experience, with coaching, in the of statistical methods, data analysis, and art and skill of communicating biblical truths student assessment. to children. 45201- Advanced Research in Leadership 45860 Current Trends in Childhood 45204 and Discipleship 1-4 hours Education 3 hours An intensive self-directed analysis of a topic Exploration of trends and issues in childhood in Christian education or ministry leadership. education with an emphasis on the ministry Pre-approval required. to children. Study based on student interests with the objective of synthesizing their 45250 Family Ministry Through the Lifespan 3 hours experiences. Extensive readings. Designed for This course provides an overview of human second-year students whose career goal is development and change throughout the ministry to children. lifespan, focusing on how local churches can adopt a family-equipping paradigm for 45870 Advanced Education Psychology3 hours discipleship in their ministries to persons at An overview of the contributions of every stage of development. psychology to the teaching-learning process. Topics include learning theory, individual 45260 Discipleship and Family Ministry3 hours differences, motivation, human development, An exploration of ways the church can exceptionality, teaching methodology, minister to the modern family in all its forms: page 138 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 measurement and evaluation. This course is in Youth Ministry 3 hours restricted to Boyce College Teacher Education This course is a study of the essential Program students. administrative and management skills for 46000 Youth Ministry and Discipleship3 hours effective planning and programming in local An examination of development during the church youth ministry. Emphasis will be given adolescent years as a basis for planning a to the development of a comprehensive youth relevant local church youth program. A critical ministry program. This will include volunteer examination is made of curriculum provisions recruitment and training as well as ministry for youth with a special emphasis on SBC recreation that enhances an effective youth curriculum. ministry. Budget planning and implementation will be integrated into this process. 46010 Advanced Youth Ministry 3 hours This course is designed to address issues 46120 Strategies for Campus Outreach of long-term calling to vocational youth in Youth Ministry 3 hours ministry. In this course, the students will This course will be a study of the outreach explore critical persona and professional strategy in bringing youth to salvation and a issues related to successive stages or growing relationship with Christ in the context seasons of youth ministry. Prerequisite: of a campus ministry. Attention is given to the 41800 The Youth and Family Minister or basic workings of the campus social system professor permission. and the methods used in reaching it with the gospel as well as equipping adolescents to 46020 Current Trends in Youth Ministry3 hours reach their friends with the gospel. Starting This course is an active exploration into the a campus ministry from “scratch” will be a cultural trends impacting the adolescents primary focus of this course. Special attention population and both the current and proposed will be given to evangelizing students, church ministry response to those trends. working with school officials and legal issues. Theological, sociological, and methodological Prerequisite: 41800 The Youth and Family research related to the future of youth work Minister will be engaged with emphasis given to a biblical/theological critique of proposed 46125 Strategies for Cross-Cultural ministry methods. Youth Ministry 3 hours This course is an examination of the 46100 Ministry with Adolescents in 3 Crisishours development and implementation of An examination of selected current problems philosophical paradigms and strategies confronting today’s youth with emphasis on for cross-cultural youth ministry such as Biblical applications to these problems. The local church youth group involvement in problem-solving technique of case studies is international youth ministry and training emphasized in developing leadership skills. for the implementation of short-term youth 46105 Effective Communication cross-cultural experiences. Orientation to to Adolescents various3 student ministry positions,hours principles A study of the biblical foundations for necessary for successful student missions presenting the Gospel with specific application programming, and a survey of methodology to adolescents. Sermon construction, lesson involved will be presented. Special attention preparation, platform techniques and general will be given to connecting with and accessing speaking qualifications within the context resources through the International Mission of cultural relevance will be considered with Board and North American Mission Board. special emphasis given to adolescents and Prerequisite: 46010 Advanced Youth Ministry. age appropriate communication. Prerequisite: Also taught under 33340. 41800 The Youth and Family Minister and 46130 Teaching Principles and Strategies for 22100 Biblical Hermeneutics Ministry to Adolescents 3 hours 46110 Professional Development and Resources This course is an examination of the in Youth Ministry development of biblical curricula for 3 hours This course will focus on the call to ministry, establishing a comprehensive teaching examining personal growth and commitment. strategy in local church youth ministry. Job descriptions, staff development and Students will develop a comprehensive relationships, goal setting, time and financial curriculum. Prerequisite: 41800 The Youth and management, will be emphasized. Writing Family Minister a professional resume and development a 46135 Team Building in Youth Ministry3 hours personal development plan will be covered This course is designed to increase the youth as well as the strategy for developing ministry student’s effectiveness in developing necessary referral networks in youth ministry. a balanced team ministry strategy that Prerequisite: 46010 Advanced Youth Ministry encompasses volunteers, parents, as well 46115 Program Development and Planning as student leaders. Special attention will be

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 139 given to the youth leader’s role as a part of basis for expository preaching, the historical the pastoral ministry team. Prerequisite: 46010 developments of expository preaching, Advanced Youth Ministry and hermeneutical issues related to the art 46200 Youth Ministry and Recreation3 hours of expository preaching. The essential and An examination of the integration of church relevant nature of expository preaching for the recreation into the church’s larger task of contemporary church will be emphasized. providing an effective ministry with youth. A 80312 Expository Preaching and the workshop component of the course requires Old Testament 4 hours the student to attend at his/her expense an An introduction to the interpretation of the event approved by the course professor. Old Testament with the view to discovering, 46260 Youth Ministry and the Family3 hours translating, and communicating in sermonic An examination of adolescents in the context form the author’s intended messages. of a family dynamic, this course explores Following a general introduction to the the relationships that impact the life of the interpretation of the Old Testament, attention adolescent as well as methods for influencing will be devoted to appropriate hermeneutical the adolescent’s family through impacting the strategies to be applied to different genres adolescent. Methods for developing biblical of biblical literature and demonstrating the strategies for ministry to disciple adolescents relevance of the Old Testament message for the for life as an adult will be emphasized. Priority church and the world today. will be placed on equipping the whole church 80313 Expository Preaching and the family in nurturing our youth. New Testament 4 hours 46325 Discipling Adults 3 hours A study of the New Testament background An overview of adult strategies currently in for preaching with the view to discovering, use within church-based ministries. Students translating, and communicating in sermonic will learn how to apply both traditional and form the author’s intended messages. purpose-driven ministry designs to attract, Emphasis will be placed on selection of a text disciple, and train adults for leadership in the and steps involved in sound exegesis. church. Emphasis will be given to selecting and 80314 Methods and Models of utilizing innovative resources with adults. Expository Preaching 4 hours 46505 Adult Educational Ministry in the This seminar will feature the story of the art of Local Church expository3 preaching through thehours examination A study in identifying foundational issues of of major homiletical methods: The deductive effective educational ministry for adults in the or propositional method and the inductive local church. Adult developmental theories, or narrative and sermonic plot method. ministries, programs and strategies and Each method will be investigated based on teaching approaches particularly unique to the movement and structure of the biblical adults will be included in the course. text. Preachers modeling these homiletical methods in their sermons will be evaluated through videotapes and telephone dialogue Doctoral Studies conferences. Professors who are teaching (80000-97060) in the four seminars will preach expository sermons during daily required chapel services. Professional Doctoral Studies 80400 Christian Heritage and the 80230 Old Testament Theology 4 hours Practice of Ministry 4 hours An examination of the interpretive perspective An interdisciplinary approach to the practice of the biblical authors in the Old Testament. A of Christian ministry with emphasis on the particular focus will be placed upon the big story correlation of the historical, philosophical, they presuppose and the imagery, symbolism, theological, and ethical disciplines in and patterns they use to summarize and further the context of their contributions to the interpret that story. functioning of the minister. 80300 Christian Scripture and the 80411 Black Church Historical/Theological Practice of Ministry Emphasis 4 hours 4 hours An examination of contemporary approaches A study of historical, philosophical and to biblical interpretation with a focus upon their theological aspects relative to the Black use in the practice of ministry. Church in the areas of Black theology, worship, 80311 Theological, Historical and Practical Issues biblical preaching, social justice, and ethical in Expository Preaching dimensions of ministry.4 hours An examination of the theology, history and 80412 Black Church Leadership and practice of expository preaching. Attention Administration 4 hours will be given to the biblical/theological A study of principles of effective leadership, page 140 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 church administration, church staff relations, teaching, and discipleship ministries of a local and pastoral leadership models with emphasis congregation. and focus on the Black Church. 80473 Historical Theology in the 80413 Black Church Ministry with Local Church 4 hours the Community A survey of issues concerning4 historical hours A study of various aspects of a congregation– theology and the practice of utilizing historical program, process, context and identity with theology in the teaching and discipleship specific focus on Black Church ministry ministries of the local church. with the community. Understanding the 80474 Practical Theology in the community, networking with denominational Local Church 4 hours and community entities, economic A survey of issues concerning practical theology development and empowerment, and grant as they relate to the preaching, teaching, and writing will be examined. discipleship ministries of a local church. 80414 Ministry Transitions for the Black Church80481- Applied Ministry Experience in of the 21st 80484 AppliedCentury Theology I, II, III, 2 IVhours 4 hours A study of transitions in preaching, worship The utilization of field experience in a and ministry impacting the transformational student‘s ministry setting to test theory and roles of black church leadership in the 21st methodology in the practice of ministry, with century. specific attention given to applying theology 80450 Biblical and Theological Issues in the local church. in Urban Ministry80500 Practical Theology4 and the hours A study of ministry and evangelism strategies Practice of Ministry 4 hours in urban settings, with attention given to An analysis of the involvement of the church urbanization and the role of the church on mission through ministry, with emphasis in the city. Theological, sociological, and upon proclamation and worship, pastoral care, methodological research applicable to the leadership development, evangelism, and church in the city is emphasized, with a church extension. particular focus on biblical and theological issues. 80541 Biblical-Theological Foundations of Care 4 hours 80451 Community Development and This seminar is a one-week intensive Urban Ministry exploration4 of the biblical foundationshours for An examination of contemporary approaches a theology of caring. Thematic issues from to community development and urban pastoral situations of contemporary caring ministry with specific focus upon their use will be examined in light of biblical theology in the practice of evangelism and church and biblical principles for pastoral care and growth. Attention will be given to biblical counseling. and theological critique of community development practices, and methodologies 80542 Historical-Theological Foundations and practice of biblical community of the Care of Souls 4 hours This one-week intensive foundational seminar development will be discussed. explores the historical epochs of pastoral 80452 Intercultural Issues in Urban Ministry4 hours care and counseling as the ministry of the An examination of intercultural issues as they “care of souls” from the middle ages to the relate to the urban ministry context. Attention contemporary church. will be given to both North American and International settings, and how intercultural 80551 Introduction to Biblical Counseling 4 hours A general introduction to basic concepts and issues affect the ministry of the church. distinctive features of biblical counseling, its 80453 Current Issues in Urban Ministry4 hours theological basis, and an evaluation of secular An examination of contemporary issues in and integration counseling models. urban ministry. Particular attention will be given to a biblical and theological evaluation 80552 Methodology of Biblical Counseling 4 hours This course seeks to outline the basic of these issues. components of the nouthetic counseling process 80471 Biblical and Systematic Theology so that the counselor will know the foundational in the Local frameworkChurch for biblical confrontation.4 hours A survey of issues concerning biblical and systematic theology as they relate to 80553 Problems and Procedures of Biblical the preaching, teaching, and discipleship Counseling 4 hours This course is designed to apply the biblical ministries of a local church. principles taught in the Methodology of 80472 Ecclesiology in the Local Church4 hours Biblical Counseling course to a range of A survey of issues concerning the doctrine specific counseling problems. This course will of the church as they relate to the preaching,

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 141 include student participation in counseling as An investigation of the theological and counselors, counselees, and observers. philosophical issues attendant to the field 80554 Marriage and Family Counseling4 hours of Christian Education. Seminar participants A biblical overview of the unique challenges will be required to demonstrate practical faced in marriage and family counseling focused knowledge and application of seminar content upon accurately and appropriately instructing within their immediate ministry context. families in these situations. Careful attention 80802 Foundations for Teaching and Learning will be given to genuine heart change and the in Christian Education 4 Contextshours counseling resources available in this area. An examination of Christian teaching and 80600 Project Methodology 2 hours learning theories as applied to the evangelistic An analysis of various types of research and discipling process within the church and appropriate to the interests of Christian denomination. Seminar participants will be ministry, with attention to areas, resources, required to demonstrate skillful teaching within procedures, and requirements for Ministry their personal ministries. Ability to critique and Research Projects. remedy teaching methodology will be expected. 80610 Introduction to Research and Writing2 hours 80803 Biblical and Contemporary Models This seminar introduces professional doctoral of Christian Leadership 4 hours students to the standards of doctoral research A contextual study of both Old Testament and and writing. Particular emphasis is placed on New Testament leadership styles. Comparison the standards pertaining to seminar papers, with contemporary leadership theory and project proposals, and research projects. Stress philosophy will be expected. Seminar is also placed on utilizing the necessary library participants will be expected to evaluate their resources for doctoral work. ministry context and expectations against biblical and contemporary leadership principles. 80611 Biblical and Theological Issues in Missions 80807 Leadership4 and Managementhours Theory A survey of current biblical and theological in Church Administration 4 hours issues in missions with specific focus on their An analysis of current approaches to effective relevance to the practice of missions. Practical church administration in relationship to implementation and evaluation of missions and leadership and management theory. church growth methodologies in light of their 80808 Leadership of Effective Ministry Teams4 hours theological foundations will be required. A study of practical principles for working 80612 Intercultural Leadership 4 hours together in team ministry to develop, A study of the principles of Christian leadership strengthen and maintain effective ministry with specific attention to their application to teams in the church. missions contexts. Attention also will be given 80809 Leadership in Volunteer Ministries4 hours to strategies for leadership development. An investigation of the biblical foundations of 80613 Missions Strategy: Theory and Practice 4 hours volunteer ministry as well as current theories A study of the historical development of and trends used in volunteer organizations and missions strategy with special attention contemporary churches. given to contemporary strategies. Study 80821 Christian Formation of Children and will be guided in developing a strategy for Adolescents 4 hours evangelizing their target area. Explores the Christian formation and 80615 Current Issues in Global Missions4 hours discipleship of children and adolescents, A survey of current issues in missiology focusing on the role of the family and on the and missions practice with an emphasis on relationship of Christian formation to theories application in the student’s ministry context. of cognitive, moral, and spiritual development. 80822 Issues in Student and Family Ministry4 hours 80700 Ministry Research Project This course is an active exploration into the 80710 Contextualized Writing Seminar 2 hours cultural trends impacting the adolescent This seminar will aid the student in the population and their families with an development of their professional doctoral examination of both the current and proposed ministry project or thesis. The student will church ministry response to those trends. analyze their current ministry context to Theological, sociological, and methodological determine the focus of their project or thesis research related to the future of student and and then will write significant portions in family ministry will be engaged with emphasis consultation with their supervisor. given to a biblical/theological critique of 80720 Research Thesis proposed ministry methods. 80801 Theological and Philosophical Issues 80823 Models of Student and Family Ministry 4 hours in Christian Education An in-depth4 theological and philosophicalhours analysis of the history, methodology, and page 142 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 relative strengths and weaknesses of primary This seminar introduces the student to the models of student and family ministry. nature, theology, purpose, and practice Seminar participants will be expected to of biblical spirituality. The emphasis in evaluate their ministry context and personal this seminar is on the individual aspects leadership competencies in light of the of biblical spirituality and to personal concepts, principles, and guidelines discussed spiritual disciplines. Some attention is given during the seminar. to understanding contemporary issues 80841 Theology and History of in spirituality and to helping the student Christian Worship 4 develop a basis for evaluatinghours popular trends A study of biblical and theological themes and practices in spirituality. related to the worship of the one true and living 80912 Christian Classics 4 hours God as seen in both Old and New Testaments. Every pastor has heard of the great classics Emphasis will be given to developments of from our Christian heritage—such books as these aspects of worship across the testaments, Augustine’s Confessions, Calvin’s Golden with a goal of understanding better the nature Booklet of the Christian Life, Rutherford’s of worship for Christian believers. A portion of Letters, Bonar’s Life of McCheyne—but how the course will focus on developing a historical many of us have read even a few of them? perspective on practices of Christian worship. This D.Min. course explores some of the 80842 Planning and Leading Christian classics from a number of eras of Christian Worship 4 the Church’s historyhours (Patristic, Reformation & th th A study of the structure and elements of Puritan, 18 and 19 century Evangelicalism). corporate worship with an emphasis on It seeks to help the student know how to planning Christ-centered, biblically rich interpret these texts and develop life-long worship services. Special consideration will be strategies for reading them and profiting from given to current issues in worship planning. their spirituality. 80843 Arts, Culture, and Trends in 80913 Biblical Spirituality in the Christian Worship 4 Local hours Church 4 hours A study of current trends related to worship This seminar develops the student’s practices and the impact of culture, media, and understanding of biblical spirituality as the arts. Specific focus is given to transitional experienced and expressed in and through trends in worship and the contextualization of the context of the local church. The emphasis various worship practices in a wide variety of of the seminar will be upon the practical evangelical settings. implementation of the interpersonal and congregational aspects of biblical spirituality. 80844 Leadership Dynamics in Worship Ministry 80914 4 Spiritual Awakeningshours and Revivals4 hours A study of key leadership principles for the A survey of the history and theology of worship pastor, this course focuses on essential spiritual awakenings and revival in the western personal and corporate leadership qualities and world since the Reformation. Particular competencies necessary for effective ministry attention is paid to the Puritan understanding leadership. Particular attention will be given and experience of revival, and the First and to personal integrity and holiness, conflict Second Great Awakenings. More recent resolution, communicating vision, developing reflections upon the nature of genuine revival team-based ministry, leading volunteers, by authors like Richard Lovelace and Iain H. navigating change, and relational connections Murray will also be considered. with the pastoral team. 80921- Applied Ministry Experience in 80853 Ministry Research Project 6 hours 80924 Biblical Spirituality I, II, 2 III, hoursIV each A written presentation of a project combining The utilization of field experience in the professional knowledge, documented research, student’s ministry setting to test theory and and ministry application. The project must methodology in the practice of ministry, with have direct relevance to Christian leadership in specific attention given to biblical spirituality. a particular ministry setting. An oral defense 80980 D.Min. Student: Registration Only of the project before appropriate faculty and “Holding” course for Doctor of Ministry appropriate group members is required. students who are officially on “interrupted” or 80870 Life and Doctrine of the 4 Leaderhours “continuing enrollment” status. An in-depth analysis of biblical, theological, and contemporary understandings and practices of Research Doctoral Studies Christian leadership. Particular emphasis will be given to the personal life, philosophy and General Studies doctrine of the leader. 81020 Graduate Research Seminar 2 hours 80911 Intro to Biblical Spirituality 4 hours A survey of library resources and techniques

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 143 for the preparation of dissertations and 81250 Teaching Principles in Higher examination of research writing. Education Contexts 4 hours 81050 Master of Theology Thesis Research4 hours A seminar designed to introduce the student Supervised research on a thesis topic, to the following: the philosophy, organization, preparation of a thesis prospectus, and expectations, and skills and resources submission to a student’s Committee of necessary for effective teaching in institutions Instruction. of higher education. Consideration will be given to the teaching environment, the learning 81060 Master of Theology Thesis 4Writing hours process and instructional methodology. Final research and writing of a thesis in accordance with an approved prospectus, 81260 Foundations for Theological Studies2 hours under the supervision of a student’s major This course provides an orientation to doctoral professor. Satisfactory acceptance of the level study as conducted in a theological and thesis by a student’s Committee of Instruction confessional environment. The purpose is to is required for a passing grade. Approval of address in a dialogical way key issues such the prospectus is prerequisite for this course. as the relationship of faith and scholarship, the life of the mind and spirituality (including 81100 Theological French 0 hours intellectual virtue), worldview and its effects on A non-credit course designed to give the our scholarship, and what it means to know in student a reading knowledge of theological light of our confession of faith. French. Fee required. 81300 Higher Education 2 hours 81120 Theological German 0 hours This seminar has the purpose of acquainting A non-credit course designed to give the students with the philosophy, organization, and student a reading knowledge of theological structure of institutions of higher education German. Fee required. at the level of colleges, universities, and 81140 Theological Latin 0 hours seminaries, both in the United States and in the A non-credit course designed to give the other countries. student a reading knowledge of theological 81500 Guided Mentorship 1 hour Latin. Fee required. A directed analysis of precedent literature 81150 Theological Spanish 0 hours in the specific field of the student and an A non-credit course designed to give the opportunity to teach and be evaluated. student a reading knowledge of theological Spanish. Fee required. Old Testament Studies 81170 Empirical Research and Computer 82000 Old Testament Studies Colloquium2 hours Applications I— 82100 Historiography and the Quantitative Research Methods 0 Patriarchalhours Period 4 hours A non-credit course designed to give the The Middle Bronze Age and its cultural student a working knowledge of the empirical remains. Attention will be given to the socio- research process and methods in doing cultural reconstruction and its relevance to an quantitative research. Students will create understanding of the Patriarchal Narratives. research designs, gather and analyze data Prerequisites: 20200, 20220 and 20400 or the using statistical computer software, and relate equivalent. results to an appropriate theoretical base. 82120 Historiography and the 81180 Empirical Research and Computer Conquest/Settlement Period 4 hours Applications II— Qualitative Research The transition from Late Bronze to Early Methods 0 Iron Age hoursin Palestine. Using a systematic A non-credit course designed to continue the study of cultural remains and socio-cultural study of available computer resources to aid reconstruction, this seminar will focus on the counseling clinician in the development issues concerning the Hebrew’s entry into of empirical research design. Students will Palestine, their institutions, and their relations become competent in the use of the latest with Canaanites, Philistines, and other computer programs for the development of peoples. Prerequisites: 20200, 20220 and qualitative research. 20400 or the equivalent. 81200 Teaching Principles and Methods4 hours 82140 Historiography and the Monarchy4 hours A seminar designed to introduce the skills and The period of the monarchy from an resources necessary for effective teaching. archaeological perspective. Included will Consideration will be given to the teaching be a study of such cultural features as environment, the learning process, instructional architecture, defense systems and weapons, methodology, the values of various media, water systems, tools and utensils, and and teaching in the local church as well as in inscriptional materials. This seminar will also educational institutions. provide a socio-cultural reconstruction of the page 144 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 time period. Prerequisites: 20200, 20220 and to grammar and orthography. There will be a 20400 or the equivalent. study of inscriptions from various stages within 82220 The History of Israel’s Religion4 hours the development of Hebrew writing. The study of Israelite religion with particular 82410 Hebrew Prose 4 hours attention to the fluctuations and developments Reading in Hebrew Prose from biblical (and of Israelite faith occasioned by major historical some non-biblical) poetry. Hebrew phonology, events. The study includes the history of morphology, and syntax will be emphasized selected Israelite shrines, the theological along with exegetical and text-critical issues. emphases of those shrines, and the influence 82420 Hebrew Poetry 4 hours of the cult upon the formation of the Old Reading in Hebrew Poetry from biblical (and Testament traditions. Prerequisites: 20200, some non-biblical) prose. Hebrew phonology, 20220 and 20400 or the equivalent. morphology, and syntax will be emphasized 82335 Septuagint Seminar 4 hours along with exegetical and text-critical issues An introduction to the critical study of the 82470 Syriac Language and Literature4 hours Septuagint, with an assessment of its variant This seminar seeks to equip students to read manuscript readings in relation to known and study biblical and Christian source texts in Hebrew manuscripts. Special attention will be Syriac. given to the characteristics of Hellenistic Greek represented by the Septuagint (phonology, 82500 The Literature of the Pentateuch4 hours A study of the critical methodologies used morphology, and syntax). in the literary analysis of the Pentateuch. 82340 Biblical Aramaic 4 hours Attention is given to the history of Pentateuchal An introduction to Biblical Aramaic with criticism and to current developments in this selections from the Aramaic portions of Ezra area. The critical methods will be applied to the and Daniel and from the Aramaic documents of interpretation of selected passages. Qumran. 82510 The Historiographic Literature of the 82345 Seminar in Targumic Aramaic4 hours Old Testament 4 hours Readings in the Aramaic Targums with an A study of the nature and aims of the emphasis on the phonology, morphology, historiographic writings of the Old Testament, and syntax of selected texts. The historical, interpreted within the ancient Near Eastern text-critical, and interpretational value of the cultural contexts from which they were Targums will be discussed. produced. Special attention will be paid to 82350 Exegetical Studies in Prophetic Books4 hours the Hebrew authors’ philosophy (theology) of The purpose of the seminar is to develop history and the literary strategies employed to linguistic skills for the purpose of exegesis. The achieve their rhetorical goals. seminar will consist of readings from selected 82520 The Prophetic Literature 4 hours passages from the prophets with attention A study of the nature of prophetic literature and to grammar, syntax, lexicography, textual of the methods appropriate for its interpretation. criticism, the masoretic tradition, and exegesis. Attention is given to the origin and history of 82390 Seminar in Historical prophetism as it relates to the development Hebrew Grammar 4 and transmission of thehours prophetic literature. A An introduction to the prehistory of Hebrew careful exegesis of a section or sections of the as well as to diachronic development prophetic literature will be made. within biblical Hebrew using the tools of 82540 The Literature of the Poets and Wisdom comparative and historical linguistics. Writings 4 hours The focus is not only on phonology and A study of the Psalms and Hebrew poetry and/ morphology, but also on the system of verbal or the Wisdom Literature. Special attention will stems and so called “tenses.” The linguistic be paid to the nature of Hebrew poetry and the context in which the biblical language forms of poetic literature. developed is surveyed, as are the extra- biblical materials from which information New Testament Studies on the development can be derived. Special 83000 New Testament Studies Colloquium2 hours attention will be given to the differences between Classical Biblical Hebrew (prose 83210 Seminar in Intertestamental Language of Genesis-Kings), Late Biblical Hebrew and Literature: Jewish 4 Historianshours An introduction to the Greek historiographic (Chronicles), and Post-Biblical Hebrew literature of Second Temple Judaism (Ben Sira/ Dead Sea Scrolls) in phonology, reading such texts as 1 and 2 Maccabees or morphology, and syntax. Josephus. Constant attention will be paid 82400 Hebrew Inscriptions 4 hours to the characteristics of Hellensistic Greek A study of the history of the early development represented by these texts (phonology, of the Hebrew language, with special attention morphology, and syntax).

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 145 83220 The New Testament and A survey of the history of how interpreters over Early Judaism the4 centuries have understood,hours analyzed, and The rise and development of Judaism. Study applied the Gospels. The scope of the survey of Jewish literature with emphasis on the runs from the Apostolic Fathers up to the movements, institutions, practices, teachings, modern period, with a focus on primary texts and cultural distinctives pertinent to the and hermeneutical questions. interpretation of the New Testament. 83540 The Pauline Literature 4 hours 83240 Hellenistic Judaism and the Introduction to the Pauline Corpus, exegesis of New Testament the4 earlier Epistles, Prison Epistles,hours and Pastoral The character of Diaspora Judaism in relation Epistles, with attention to critical and theological to Palestinian Judaism and to its Hellenistic problems. The historical ministry of Paul. environment. Introduction to Hellenistic-Jewish 83560 The Non-Pauline Literature 4 hours literature with intensive consideration of the Introduction and exegesis of Acts, Hebrews, Diaspora for the development of Christianity. the General Epistles, the Johannine Epistles, 83270 The Historical Jesus 4 hours and the Apocalypse. The development of pre- A study of the third Quest for the historical Jesus, Pauline Christianity. examining the positions of leading scholars and 83570 Resurrection of Jesus Christ 4 hours issues associated with the Third Quest. A study of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 83300 Introduction to New Testament examining the concept of life after death in Language 4 ancient hourspaganism, the Old Testament, second The history of New Testament language with temple Judaism, along with a thorough an introduction to comparative philology. examination of the resurrection passages Vernacular Greek of the Hellenistic period in the canonical gospels and contemporary with special reference to the Septuagint and challenges to the bodily resurrection of Jesus papyri. Evaluation and use of lexica, grammars, Christ from the dead. concordances, and other research tools. A critique of leading approaches to the study Historical Studies of New Testament language. The problem of 83605 Patristic and Celtic Spirituality4 hours theological lexicography and grammar. A study of three major traditions of Christian 83320 New Testament Language: spirituality in the period between the Apostolic nd The Synoptic Gospels and Acts Fathers (24 centuryhours A.D.) and the end of the th Selective readings for the inductive study Celtic Church (8 century A.D.). of Greek, with correlation of grammar, 83610 Patristic Greek 4 hours lexicography, textual criticism, and exegesis. An advanced course in Greek grammar and 83340 New Testament Language: reading designed to enable the student to The Pauline and General4 hoursEpistles read Patristic Greek with confidence and Selective readings for the inductive study competence. ofGreek, with corre lation­ of grammar, 83615 Patristic Latin 4 hours lexicography, textual criticism, and exegesis. An intermediate course in Patristic Latin 83360 New Testament Language: grammar and reading designed to enable The Johannine Literature the student4 to read hoursPatristic Latin with Selective readings for the inductive study confidence and competence. A wide variety of Greek, with correlation of grammar, of examples of Patristic Latin from the lexicography, textual criticism, and exegesis. second century to the sixth century will be employed to this end. 83505 Gospel of Mark 4 hours Exegesis of the Gospel of Mark with attention 83625 A Study of Christian Theology, Apologetics, to critical methods, the ministry of Jesus, and Spirituality in the Second and Markan distinctives, and new directions in Third Centuries 4 hours Gospel studies. This course will offer a study of Christian theology, apologetics, and spirituality in the 83530 The Fourth Gospel 4 hours second and third centuries, with particular Exegesis of the Gospel of John with reference to Ignatius of Antioch, The Odes of attention to its composition history, its Solomon, The Letter to Diognetus, Irenaeus of relationship to the Johannine community Lyons, Perpetua, Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian. and the Johannine epistles and apocalypse, and its theological concerns in the light of 84000 Historical Studies Colloquium 2 hours classical and contemporary contributions to 84120 The Bible in the Early Church4 hours Johannine research. A study of the use of the Old and New 83535 History of Interpretation of the Testament in the early Church to about A.D. 451. Gospels 4 84125 The Cappadocianhours Achievement 4 hours page 146 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 A detailed study of certain aspects of the persons, and institutions in American religion theology of the Cappadocian Fathers—namely to 1860, with attention to cultural context and Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, historiographical methods. Gregory of Nyssa, and Amphilochius of 84265 Puritanism 4 hours Iconium—arguably among the most influential A study of character and development of theologians of the Greek-speaking the Puritan movement in England and the Ancient Church. American colonies, with careful attention to the 84130 The Bible in the Reformation4 hours cultural, social, and political context of Puritan This seminar is a study of the interpretation of theology and ecclesiology. Old and New Testaments in the Reformation 84380 Baptist Identity: A Comparative Study of period with special reverence to the Baptist Doctrines 4 hours approaches of Luther and Calvin. Significant A study examining various notions of Baptist attention will be given to the patristic, identity by comparing how Baptists in medieval, and Renaissance background of the different historical and cultural contexts have Reformers’ work. understood and lived out “Baptist distinctives.” 84160 Life, Writings, and Theology of 84390, Reading Seminar: Augustine 4 84395 Historyhours of the Baptists I 2 andhours II An intensive study of Augustine of Hippo with each Guided reading of primary and secondary special reference to the controversies out of sources in Baptist history designed to provide a which Augustine’s thought developed. comprehensive background for other seminars 84195 History of Doctrinal Anthropology: in Baptist History. Pre-Reformation 4 84420 Controversieshours and Schisms in This course focuses on the Christian doctrine American Church History 4 hours of human nature from the thinkers prior A study of selected controversies and schisms to Augustine through the late nominalists. in American Christianity from the Colonial Broadly, the study involves the nature of the period to the present. soul and the image of God in humanity. More precisely it concentrates on developing views Theological Studies of the will. 84500 Theological Studies Colloquium2 hours 84200 Martin Luther 4 hours 84600 Approaches to Old A study of the life and thought of Martin Testament Theology 4 hours Luther with attention to the continuing The seminar will be concerned with influence of his thought. methodological and hermeneutical issues 84210 The Reformation in England 4 hours related to Old Testament theology. The history A study of the Reformation in England from and development of Old Testament theology Henry VIII to the Glorious Revolution. will also receive attention. 84225 Christianity in Post-Reformation 84610 The Theology of Deuteronomy4 hours England 4 An investigationhours into the theology of A study of English Christianity in the post- Deuteronomy within the broader context of Reformation period with special attention to the Pentateuch, examining both the distinctive the emergence of the Puritan movement. theological emphases of the book and the 84240 John Calvin 4 hours significance of Deuteronomic theology for the A study of the life and thought of John Calvin rest of the Old Testament and the Scriptures with attention to the continuing influence of as a whole. his thought. 84630 The Theology of the Prophets4 hours 84251 Christianity in Modern Britain4 hours A critical application of the methods of biblical A study of the history of Christianity in Great theology to individual prophetic books and to Britain from the eighteenth century to the the prophetic corpus as a whole. Attention will present with special attention to the rise be given to methods of interpretation and the and influence of evangelicalism and Anglo- development of a theological synthesis for the Catholicism. preaching and teaching of Scripture. 84255 English Baptists in the 17th and 84700 Approaches to New Testament 18th Centuries Theology4 hours 4 hours This course focuses on the theology, conflicts A study of the rise and development of the and prominent persons of English Baptists discipline of New Testament theology. from ca. 1600-1815 in the context of English 84710 Major Issues in New Testament Dissent. Theology 4 hours 84261 American Religious History to 41860 hours A study of the major issues affecting the field A study of significant movements, ideas, of New Testament Theology, with special

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 147 attention to Gospel research, the impact perspectives on God’s relationship to activity in of redactional and canonical emphases, the world in terms of the Christian doctrine of structuralism, and Luke-Acts monographs. the providence of God. 84760 Theology of Paul 4 hours 84920 Theological Anthropology 4 hours A study of Paul’s doctrine of God, humanity, A study of classical and contemporary Christology, Holy Spirit, church ethics, and understandings of humankind is undertaken. eschatology from his epistles. There will be Various issues will be explored, such as the provision for concentration on a particular creation, nature, constitution, development, area, e.g., Pauline anthropology, Paul’s inner life, physical body, sexuality, male and doctrine of the church. female identities and roles, and personhood of 84790 Hermeneutics and the New Testament4 human beings. hours 84930 Pneumatology 4 hours A study of the role of hermeneutics, the An advanced exploration of the doctrine of nature of meaning, the divine-human God, the Holy Spirit, with a consideration of authorship of the New Testament, the work of the phenomenon of spirit in world religions, in the Holy Spirit in interpretation, the bearing the biblical materials, the Christian heritage, of context and philosophical presuppositions and contemporary applications. or interpretation, and the interrelations 84940 Christology and Incarnation 4 hours between exegesis and theology. An intensive study of critical issues and major 84840 Contemporary Theological movements in understanding the person Methodologies 4 ofhours Christ is undertaken. Special attention An analysis of the theological methodologies will be given to historical positions and of such influential modern theologians contemporary proposals in light of Scripture’s as Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Barth, Tillich, teaching of Christ and the incarnation. Bultmann, Pannenberg, and others with a 84945 Christology and Atonement 4 hours view to understanding the development of Scripture’s teaching of Christ’s atoning modern Protestant theology. sacrifice will be examined in light of various 84845 Contemporary Issues in theories of the atonement, both ancient Evangelical Theological Formulation 4 hours and contemporary. Special concern will An investigation of contemporary issues be shown to understand current models confronting the formulation of evangelical of the atonement, along with historical, systematic theology with an analysis and philosophical, theological, and biblical evaluation of current evangelical responses to interaction regarding their viability. these issues. 84950 The Trinity 4 hours 84860 Protestant Theology in the An exploration of Christian expressions of the Nineteenth Century 4 threefoldness ofhours God. Biblical implications, A study of the theological systems primarily classical formulations, and contemporary of Frederich Schleiermacher and Albert interpretations will be examined. Ritschl and their significance for modern 84955 Revelation, Scripture, and Authority4 hours Protestant Theology. Historical, philosophical, theological and 84865 Theology of Pentecostal and Charismatic biblical issues are examined in regard to Movements 4 the Christianhours belief in divine revelation and This seminar will examine the history, the divine inspiration and authority of the hermeneutics, and theology of the Scripture. Various contemporary issues and Pentecostal and charismatic movements proposals will be considered, and focus will with a primary focus on the twentieth and be given to articulating and upholding biblical twenty-first centuries. It will evaluate these authority in today’s world. movements for theological soundness and 84965 Soteriology 4 hours will address the impact of these movements Select biblical and theological issues in the on the world and missiology. doctrine of salvation are examined. Classical 84900 Theology Proper 4 hours and contemporary understandings are An examination of select issues concerning examined, critical questions of our day are the nature of God, his existence, his attributes, considered, and Scripture’s teaching is studied his Trinitarian being, and his work in decree, in an endeavor to formulate our soteriology in creation, and providence. Historical and a manner faithful to Scripture while speaking contemporary understandings will be explored, to contemporary issues and concerns. with primacy given to God’s own self-revelation 84970 Aesthetic Theology 4 hours through Scripture. Aesthetics as a basis for theological 84910 God and the World 4 hours formulations will be investigated. Classical An examination of different theological aesthetic and theological systems from page 148 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Aristotle to Beardsley, from Aquinas to von participant may develop an advanced Balthasar will be explored. understanding of western philosophy and it 84980 Ecclesiology 4 hours impact on Christian theology and mission. Issues concerning the nature of the church 85365 Advanced Symbolic Logic 4 hours and the practice of ministry in and through An advanced study of the formal language the church will be examined. Various areas employed in propositional and predicate logic. are treated in this seminar, e.g., historic Topics include modal and deontic logic, as well understandings of the marks of the church, as the logic of necessity. Baptist ecclesiology in comparison and 85370 Metaphysics 4 hours contrast to other traditions, the relation of A critical survey of key philosophical positions church and para-church organizations, and the and disputes concerning the nature of reality. role of the church within the larger culture. 85420 God in Modern Philosophy 4 hours 84990 Eschatology 4 hours A study of the concept of God in the thought An examination of selected issues in Christian of major representative philosophers from eschatology, particularly ideas of the Kingdom Descartes to contemporary thinkers, with of God, millennialism, resurrection, divine a focus on arguments for and against the judgment, and eternal life. existence of God, classic concepts of the Christian Philosophy nature of God and His relationship to the world, and the debate over the logical 85150 Christianity and the Arts Colloquium 2 hours coherence of theism. 85160 Toward a Christian Aesthetic of Music4 hours 85430 Postmodernity and Christian Thought4 hours A study of the history and principal theories of An examination of various formulations musical aesthetics in Western art music in light of postmodern philosophy with a view of Biblical theology and worldview. to understanding the implications of the 85200 Christian Philosophy Colloquium2 hours contemporary paradigm change for a possible 85230 Epistemology 4 hours reconceptualization of Christian faith. A critical study of such topics as the nature 85450 Christianity and the Visual 4 Artshours of truth, the respective roles of reason and An exploration of foundational issues in the experience in acquiring knowledge, rationalism study of Christianity and the visual arts with versus empiricism, revelation and warrant. special reference to the history of the visual 85250 Philosophy of Religion 4 hours arts in the church and to philosophical and A systematic elaboration and analysis of some theological issues in the discipline. of the classical issues in philosophy of religion, 85455 Christianity and the Performing 4Arts hours such as the existence and attributes of God, An exploration of the foundational issues in the problem of evil, the nature of scientific the study of Christianity and the performing knowledge, the nature of value, miracles, arts with a special reference to the history of religious experience, immortality, and the the Jesus film genre and various particular resurrection. philosophical and theological issues involved 85270 Seminar in Worldview Analysis4 hours in the discipline. A study of the history and theory of Christian Ethics Weltanschauung (worldview) and its role in shaping ideas and beliefs. The belief-shaping 85500 Christian Ethics Colloquium 2 hours power of Weltanschauung will be examined as 85600 Biblical Ethics 4 hours applied to various representative worldviews, A study of the ethical teachings of the Old and such as theism, naturalism, pantheism, and New Testaments and their relation to Christian post-modernism. ethics. Issues in method and authority will 85290 Seminar in Christian Apologetics4 hours be posed for examining moral problems in An exploration of the foundational issues Scripture and contemporary society. in apologetics with special reference to the 85620 Contemporary Theological Ethics4 hours history of apologetics, various epistemological A study of current developments in theological approaches and particular issues in the ethics focusing on selected contemporary discipline. Protestant and Roman Catholic ethicists and 85340 Philosophy of History 4 hours their methodologies. A consideration of the Christian understanding 85670 Apologetical Ethics 4 hours of history in its various expressions during the This course will explore how ethical issues course of Christian thought and of its relation figure into the apologetic enterprise — to various philosophies of history. through considering the virtues of Christian 85350 The History of Western Philosophy4 hours ethics and Christian ethicists, as well as the The study is designed so the seminar fruit of Christian morality and the work of

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 149 Christian apologists at their best. Attention to a detailed study of the lives of the leading contrasting un-Christian systems, lives, fruit, preachers, giving attention to their and discourse will put biblical ethics in sharp homiletical methods, their sermonic work, relief and strengthen the apologist’s hand. and their contributions to the theory of 85740 Methods and Cases in Social4 hoursEthics preaching. A systematic and comparative86660 Americananalysis Preachingof the 4 hours essential ingredients in an ethical method An analysis of the influence of preaching adequate for particular cases. Each participant on American churches and society from the will choose a particular ethical issue, compare Puritan era to the present. ethical arguments concerning the issue, and 86720 Canons of Criticism 4 hours seek to develop his or her own argument. The analysis and discussion of rhetorical and 85780 Marriage and Human Sexuality4 hours homiletical works and of sermons with a view This seminar is an examination of selected to the formulation of principles of criticism. issues in marital and sexual ethics. Special 86800 Doctrinal Preaching 4 hours attention will be paid to issues of the The study and articulation of biblical kingdom of God, covenant, divorce, infidelity, doctrines of the Christian faith for the task of and contemporary issues within sexual and preaching. marital ethics. 86810 Expository Preaching 4 hours Christian Missions An exploration of the science and art of biblical exegesis for the purpose of expository 86000 Christian Missions Colloquium 2 hours proclamation of scripture. Historical and 86100 The History of Christian Missions4 hours contemporary theories and models of A detailed study of the patterns of expository preaching will be examined. development in missions history. 86820 The Theology of Preaching 4 hours 86110 Ethnographic Research and The study of the preaching task in the context Worldview Identification 4 of its theologicalhours foundations. Contributions of The central purpose of the course will be major theologians to preaching will be explored. to come to understand various methods, Exegetical developments and contemporary resources, and tools for ethnographic research theological trends and movements and their and worldview identification in order to make effect on preaching also will be examined. the most effective use of them in fulfilling the 86840 Pastoral Preaching 4 hours Great Commission. An examination of preaching within the 86120 Philosophy and Methodology of pastoral context as it relates to human needs. Missions 4 Selected hourspreaching models from the past and A historical and critical analysis of present will be studied to determine sermon representative philosophies of missions and preparation, content, methods, work habits, the methodologies employed. and delivery. 86130 Cultural Anthropology and 86870 Paul: Model and Source of Preaching4 hours Christian Witness 4 The intent of this coursehours is to help each of us A study of the discipline of anthropology to understand better the content and dynamic from its widest descriptions to its narrowest of Paul’s preaching. Answers will be sought applications in “Practical Missiology.” to two fundamental questions: What did Paul Special attention will be given to the debate preach? Why did Paul preach? between preservationist and interventionist 86940 Hermeneutics for Preaching 4 hours orientations. The central purpose of the An examination of the history and theory course will be to come to understand of hermeneutics for the art of Christian anthropology in its fullest dimensions in order preaching. Modern hermeneutical theories and to make the most effective use of its lessons their impact on the preaching assignment will in fulfilling the Great Commission. be carefully critiqued. 86140 Theology of the Christian 4Mission hours A study of the encounter between the Church and Society missionary enterprise and the church and its 87000 Church and Society Colloquium2 hours theology. An effort will be made to develop a contemporary theology of mission. Biblical Counseling 87500 Christian Counseling Colloquium2 hours Christian Preaching 87560 Theological Issues in Pastoral Care 86500 Christian Preaching Colloquium2 hours and Counseling 4 hours 86640 Reformation Preaching 4 hours A study of contemporary pastoral theologians A historical survey of Reformation preaching: and of the major theological issues which page 150 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 inform both the theory and practice of 87750 Biblical and Theological Foundations of pastoral care and counseling. Counseling 4 hours 87570 Guilt, Shame, and Forgiveness4 hours Christian counseling is based upon God’s This seminar will explore the pastoral theology plan, accomplishment, and application of of guilt, shame, and forgiveness in the context redemption to God’s people. In this class we of Christian counseling and family ministry. It will explore biblical and dogmatic descriptions will explore both theoretical and therapeutic of redemption and develop a model for dimensions of the subject, from a biblical, helping others in the application and psychological, theological, and systemic internalization of redemption. perspective. 87760 Theological Hermeneutics in the Care of 87580 Research Methodology in People 4 hours Pastoral Theology 4 This seminar is an explorationhours of the role Pastoral research as a method of utilizing of hermeneutics in applied theology and theology at each stage of the researching counseling. Seminar participants will apply a process is examined alongside the scientific theologically developed hermeneutic to the model of research. exegesis of specific passages of Scripture and to the interpretation of specific counseling 87690 Research on Special Issues in situations, demonstrating how the gospel of Family Ministry Jesus4 Christ is the centralhours interpretive concern This course is designed to introduce of both. graduate students to the multiple research methodologies used in family ministry research. 87770 Ecclesiology and Methods in Biblical Since this is a survey course, the emphasis is on Counseling 4 hours breadth of coverage rather than depth. This seminar will outline the basic components of the biblical counseling process, exploring 87715 Biblical Counseling & Contemporary various methods in addressing issues

Psychotherapy 4 strategicallyhours in the context of the local church. This course surveys and critiques the rise The course will consider how counseling and development of modern psychiatry and is one of the various means of grace modern psychology, the main versions of Christ has appointed for his church. It will secular psychotherapy, the main Christian specifically address the community’s role in counseling approaches that have arisen in the sanctification and support of its members response, and related issues, including the and the role of counseling in outreach to the relation of science and Scripture; and the broader community of the church. antithesis, common grace, and redemptive grace; from the standpoint of a biblically- 87810 Christian Counseling Clinical Training I 4 hours based worldview and soul-care philosophy. This functional seminar provides both theoretical and clinical training in the methods 87725 Applied Theology and Typical of reformational counseling, soul-care based

Problems 4 on the theologyhours of the magisterial Reformation This seminar will explore how Scripture in its Baptist form. The seminar will also assist (utilizing exegesis of specific passages as well the student in addressing personal/relational as biblical and systematic theology) relates issues that can get in the way of people- to typical problems often found in counseling helping. This seminar requires on-going situations. The seminar will consider how the active pastoral care ministry and will thereby major theological loci relate to the care of integrate clinical experience with theoretical people as well as how specific issues can be understandings of the characterological nature addressed with biblical theological themes. of human sin’s impact on both the caregiver This ability to move in both directions — from and care receiver. Scripture to life to Scripture — is a vital skill for the wise practitioner. 87970 Supervision of Marital and Family Therapy Supervision 4 hours 87740 Biblical Counseling 4 hours The development of a philosophy of education, This seminar is an exploration of the a learning theory, and a theory of pastoral foundations for biblical counseling. The supervision congruent with one’s practice in the seminar participants will be encouraged to supervision of marital and family therapy. develop a hermeneutic for biblical counseling that is consistent with a biblical anthropology 87974 Supervision of Marital and of personhood. Thematic issues from ministry Family Therapy 4 hours situations of a contemporary nature will be A practicum focused on developing and examined in light of biblical theology and practice of pastoral counseling in the context biblical principles for care and counseling. of marital and family therapy. Individual Prerequisite: 2 units of Clinical Pastoral supervision and case conferences may continue Education. for two consecutive semesters.

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 151 World Religions influencing the growth of the church in North America, with specific reference to principles 88000 World Religions Colloquium 2 hours and methodologies of the Church Growth An evaluatory review of contemporary Movement. literature which addresses the religion pluralism of our time. Biblical Spiritualities Studies 88100 Hinduism Within Indian Life 88900 Biblical Spirituality Colloquium2 hours and Thought 4 hours 88905 Biblical Foundations for Spirituality 4 hours A phenomenological and historical study of This course will consist of an exegesis of tests the Hindu tradition with specific attention to in the New Testament. Students will engage in religious thought, the way and value of life, intensive exegesis and reflect on the meaning sacred literature, rituals, social and cultural of the text for spiritual life. practices, and the various expressions of the tradition in the modern West. 88910 Puritan and Evangelical Spirituality4 hours A study of and reflection on various aspects of 88120 Trends Within the Development of Puritan and Evangelical piety at the doctoral Buddhist Thought 4 level, including both foundationalhours elements, A phenomenological and historical survey of such as knowing God, justification by faith, the the spread and development of various forms indwelling of the Holy Spirit, sanctification, of the Buddhist tradition in Southeast Asia, and the cross, and those secondary elements East Asia, and the West. sometimes described as means of grace, such 88140 The Phenomenon of Islam Within the as friendship, prayer and meditation, and the Contemporary World 4 Lord’s Supper. hoursThe means employed in this A phenomenological and historical study of the study and reflection are texts from two classical religious and cultural tradition of Islam, with eras of biblical spirituality, namely, seventeenth- special attention to the rise and development century Puritanism and Evangelicalism in the of the Islamic Resurgence in the modern world. “long” eighteenth century. 88300 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 88915 Medieval Spirituality 4 hours New Religious Movements This4 course entailshours an in-depth study of seven A study of the rise and development of medieval theologians/authors and the shape of new religious movements in the 19th and their spirituality. The figures to be studied are 20th centuries. Major emphasis is given to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), Bernard movements arising in the Christian West. of Clairvaux (1090–1153), Aelred of Rievaulx Evangelism and Church Growth (1110–67), Thomas Aquinas (1225–74), Ramon 88500 Evangelism and Church Growth Lull (1232–1315), Catherine of Siena (1347–80), Colloquium 2 and Johnhours Wycliffe c.( 1330–84). Other figures will be touched on by means of student seminars. 88580 Evangelistic Ministry: Biblical and Theological Principles4 hours 88920 Theological Foundations A study of the major biblical and theological of Spirituality 4 hours themes influencing the evangelistic mission This seminar engages in exploration of of the church. Special emphasis is given to foundational theological understandings contemporary interpretations of evangelism, that rightly undergird a genuine and faithful proclamation, discipleship, social ministry, and expression of biblical spirituality, done within church growth as they inform the development the context of some major historic models of of a holistic evangelistic strategy for the Christian spirituality. contemporary church. Biblical Theology 88630 Spiritual Warfare in Evangelism 89950 Biblical Theology Colloquium 2 hours and Missions 4 hours An examination of spiritual warfare, with a 89955 History of Biblical Theology 4 hours particular focus on the relationship between This seminar provides a survey of the warfare and evangelism and missions. history of biblical theology and its various trajectories, formulations, definitions, and 88700 The Methods and Influence of major contributors. The scope of the survey is American Evangelists 4 hours broad but focuses mainly on the development A critical and evaluative study of the of biblical theology as a formal discipline in contribution of selected leaders in evangelism the modern period as well as prospective such as Charles Finney, Dwight Moody, Billy trajectories for the future of the discipline. Sunday, and Billy Graham to the evangelistic task and its development in modern Leadership and Discipleship understandings of mission. 90000 Leadership and Discipleship 88750 Contemporary Church Growth 4 hours Colloquium 1 hour An examination of contemporary factors page 152 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 A forum for doctoral students, faculty and 93575 Models of Student and guest lecturers to explore theological, Family Ministry 4 hours philosophical and social science assumptions Examines and critiques the history, philosophy, and issues in ministry leadership. A minimum methodology, and relative strengths and of six semesters is required. weaknesses of major youth and family ministry 91020 Christian Higher Education 4 hours leadership models through a theological and A study of the principles of educational psychosocial grid. administration in Bible colleges, Christian liberal 93610 Communication and Team Dynamics4 hours arts colleges and seminary education. Attention A study of team/group dynamics theories is given to the educational role of the institution and their application to organizational as well as its administrative tasks. leadership. Issues of team leadership and team 91080 Readings in Leadership 4 hours effectiveness are explored. Examines theory A self-directed analysis of precedent and practice of professional communication in literature on a significant issue in leadership organizations and its impact on team process. and management. 93920 Current Theory and Practice in 91500 Seminar in History and Education4 hours Adult Education 4 hours A study of selected educational teachers of A critical examination of current issues in history with the purpose of evaluating their adult education, including the assumptions influence on and their contribution to the and philosophies underlying andragogy, and theory and practice of education in their day program planning models and principles. and in the present. 93950 Directed Doctoral Study 0 hours 92500 Seminar in Philosophy Self-directed research for students who have and Education completed all course work4 and are studying hours A survey of the significant philosophies of for the comprehensive examinations and/or education to serve as the foundation upon preparing the prospectus. which the student builds a philosophy of 93980 Doctoral Dissertation education. Research and Writing 1 hour 93080 Readings in Education Foundations4 hours For students who have completed the A self-directed analysis of precedent prospectus and are writing the dissertation. literature on a significant issue in the 95100 Personality and theoretical foundations of education. Developmental Theory 4 hours 93090 Readings in Higher Education4 hours An evaluation of personality theories, A self-directed analysis of precedent educational psychology and developmental literature on a significant issue in higher psychology and an analysis of their education. contributions to the practices of leadership, instruction and spiritual formation. 93420 Curriculum Theory and Design4 hours An exploration of the major curriculum 95200 Social Systems in Ministry 4Context hours developments in Christian education An exploration of the findings of sociology including a review of historical trends, and anthropology as they relate to Christian the design of curriculum frameworks and education ministry and the development of teaching-learning sessions, the supervision of Christian leadership across social groups curriculum in the local church, and a critique and cultures. of curriculum issues in higher education. 95300 Theological Analysis of 93480 Readings in Ministry 4 hours Educational Assumptions 4 hours A self-directed analysis of precedent literature An investigation of the theological on a significant issue in education ministry. presuppositions that inform the education and leadership assumptions of ministry praxis. 93565 Issues in Student and Family Ministry4 hours Students will articulate and evaluate their Examines the state of youth and family working philosophy of ministry in light of ministry programs and strategies, the many biblical theology and systematic theology. profiles of youth today, the impact of the family, the development of the adolescent, 95500 Critical Inquiry and Research Design4 hours intergenerational relationships, and the Critical thinking and reflection processes are challenges of cultural diversity. explored and are applied to research evaluation and interpretation. Students develop the 93570 Spirituality of Adolescents 4 hours knowledge, skills and disposition for critical Explores the spiritual and mental inquiry and research development, preparation, development of adolescents, and wrestle analysis, interpretation and evaluation. with models and methodologies that may effectively promote spirituality in 95600 Teaching and Learning: Theory adolescents. and Practice 4 hours

SOUTHERN SEMINARY Curriculum CATALOG | | page 2015-2016 153 An analysis of learning theory and 97000 Theological Anthropology contemporary models of teaching with an and Human Development 4 hours emphasis on instructional techniques used in A study of classical and contemporary higher education. perspectives on human nature, constitution, 95700 Biblical and Theological and development, with a focus on critiquing Foundations for Leadership 4social-scientific hours perspectives in light of divine Students examine leadership theory from a revelation and orthodox Christian theology. biblical worldview perspective by critically 97005 Christian Formation of examining the theological assumptions Children and Adolescents 4 hours that underlie various models of leadership. Explores the Christian formation and Examines theological themes that directly discipleship of children and adolescents, impact leadership practice. Builds a focusing on the role of the family on the theological foundation for the practice of relationship of Christian formation to leadership. theories of cognitive, moral, and spiritual 96100 Leadership and Management Theory4 hours development. A critical examination of contemporary 97010 Theology of Marriage and 4Family hours leadership principles and practices in the light This course examines marital and parental of biblically-based models and criteria for relationships in their biblical, theological, Christian leadership and administration. historical, and cultural contexts, with special 96200 Leadership for Church Development4 hours attention being given to developing a biblical An evaluation of a variety of contemporary and theological perspective on issues of ministry models and church growth strategies sexuality and complementary relationships and an analysis of their contributions to the between husbands and wives. development of Christian leadership. 97015 Marriage and Family Counseling4 hours 96300 Organizational Theory An in-depth analysis of the fundamental and Development principles of biblical4 counseling and of thehours Explores psychological and developmental application of these principles in the context underpinnings of organizations. Presents of marital and parental relationships. Student classical and contemporary theories and will apply principles from biblical counseling principles of organizational development. through the development of case studies. Students gain skills in the analysis of 97020 Readings in Family Ministry 4 hours organizational culture, communication A self-directed analysis of precedent literature processes, and staff training. on a significant issue in family ministry. 96400 Change, Power and Conflict4 hours Biblical Worship An analysis of the change process, the role of power and authority in the development 98100 Christian Worship Colloquium 1 hour of change and conflict, and approaches to A forum for doctoral students, faculty, conflict management. and guest lectures to explore theological, historical, philosophical and cultural issues 96800 Empirical Research Methods 4 hours related to Christian Worship. A study of research methodology, including methods and techniques of literary, 98110 Theology of Christian Worship4 hours quantitative, and qualitative analysis, data A study of biblical and theological themes collection and tabulation, statistical analysis, related to the worship of the one true and and the documentation of findings. living God as seen in both Old and New Testaments. 96850 Analysis of Empirical Research 4 hours A study of the methods of empirical data 98120 Historical Survey of Christian Worship 4 hours gathering and analysis including the design A study of Christian worship practices from and validation of instrumentation, the selection the ante-Nicene period to the present, with of statistical measures and options for data an emphasis on evaluating these practices computation, and the documentation and biblically and theologically. Pivotal historical display of research findings. developments serve as the basis for discussion and research. 96920 Comprehensive Examinations 0 hours A series of individualized research questions 98130 Studies in Christian Hymnody4 hours incorporating and expanding upon the findings A study of hymns, psalmody, and worship of doctoral course work. Enrollment continues song as these have developed in church under Directed Doctoral Study until the history and worship traditions from the comprehensive examinations are passed. Patristic era through the present. Primary Prerequisite: Successful completion of all emphases are on theological analysis, hymn requisite research seminars. tune performance practices and styles, and poetic traditions. page 154 | Curriculum SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 98140 Planning and Leading Christian Worship 4 hours A study of the structure and elements of corporate worship with an emphasis on planning Christ-centered, biblically rich worship services. Special consideration will be given to current issues in worship planning. 98150 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Worship Practices 4 hours A study of Christian congregational song and worship practices in major world music traditions, with emphasis on textual analysis (theological and cultural), examination of musical performance practices, and uses in worship. 98160 Readings in Christian Worship4 hours A self-directed analysis of precedent literature on a significant issue in Christian Worship. 98500 Theology of Christian Missions4 hours A study of the encounter between the missionary enterprise and the church and its theology. An effort will be made to develop a contemporary theology of mission. For D.Miss. students only. 98510 History of Christian Missions 4 hours A detailed study of the patterns of development in missions history. For D.Miss. students only.

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Board of Trustees • Offices• Faculty • Academic Calendar “All are united in a common purpose—to train, educate, and prepare ministers of the gospel for more faithful service.” —R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Board of Trustees For Indiana James L. Walls, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Chairman: Charlestown Mr. Philip Gunn For Kentucky First Vice-Chairman & Executive Committee Elizabeth H. Coursey, Director of Preschool & Children’s Chairman: Ministries, First Baptist Church, Henderson Mr. Matt Schmucker Steven R. Hussung, Pastor, Rich Pond Baptist Church, Bowling Green Second Vice-Chairman: Dr. John Thweatt For Louisiana Julie C. Emerson, President & Founder, Lagniappe Secretary: Communications Group, Carencro Dr. Philip West David E. Hankins, Executive Director, Louisiana Baptist Financial Board Chairman: Convention, Alexandria Mr. Stanley Craig For Maryland/Delaware For Alabama John W. Manry, Pastor, North Harford Baptist Church, Edwin J. Hayes, Retired, Cullman Jarrettsville John C. Thweatt, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Pell City For Mississippi For Arizona Philip Gunn, Attorney/Speaker of the House in the Archie Stephens, Retired, Goodyear Mississippi House of Representatives, Clinton Carl M. White, Pastor, Highland Baptist Church, For Arkansas Meridian Schanon D. Caudle, Pastor, North Park Baptist Church, Van Buren For Missouri Nick Floyd, Campus Pastor, Cross Church, Springdale Phillip A. Bray, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Macon For California David C. Sheppard, Retired, St. Peters John A. Montgomery, Dean of Spiritual Life, California Baptist University, Highland For North Carolina Alfred M. (Merril) Smoak, Jr., Associate Pastor, Trinity David P. Bruce, Executive Assistant, Billy Graham Baptist Church, Livermore Evangelistic Association, Montreat Clint L. Pressley, Pastor, Hickory Grove Baptist Church, For District of Columbia Charlotte Matt Schmucker, Executive Director, Together 4 the Gospel, District of Columbia For Ohio David F. Gray, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Garrettsville For Florida James B. Henry, Interim Pastor, Orlando For Oklahoma Randall B. Kuhn, Pastor, Howard Carlisle Baptist Church, E. Todd Fisher, Senior Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Panama City Shawnee Edward (Scott) Pruitt, Attorney General, Office of For Georgia Oklahoma Attorney General, Tulsa Thomas E. Rush, Pastor, Berean Baptist Church, Social Circle For South Carolina Philip W. West, Senior Pastor, Retired, Warner Robins Johnny J. Touchet, Pastor, Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Piedmont For Illinois L. Perrin Powell, Senior Pastor, Peach Valley Baptist Nina J. Wilson, Retired, Rockford Church, Boiling Springs page 156 | Directory SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 For Tennessee Bursar’s Office/Cashier — 4128 J. Michael King, Retired, Chattanooga 234 Honeycutt, Box 2390, Fax 897-4182 Chad P. Wilson, Banker/CFP President, Foundation Campus Information — 4011 Bank, Jackson Campus Police — 4444 For Texas Box 2382, Fax 897-4805 J. Michael Mericle, Senior Associate Pastor, Great Hills Baptist Church, Austin Clinic — 4497 Paul B. Taylor, Electrician, E.I. DuPont Company, Orange 213 HCC, Box 2374, Fax 897-4050 For Virginia Computer Stations — 4713 Brian D. Autry, Director, Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, Midlothian Dining Services — 4415 Billy F. Ross, Pastor, Centreville Baptist Church, 253 HCC, Box 2398, Fax 897-4010 Centreville Disability Services — 4208 At Large 154 Norton, Box 2366, Fax 897-4031 Pusey Losch, Pastor, Mountain View Church, Richfield, PA Event Productions — 4072 Local 204 HCC, Box 2394, Fax 897-4088 Joshua R. Albertson, CFO, Access Ventures, Inc., Extension Education — 4390 Fisherville 146 Norton, Box 2387, Fax 897-4004 Stanley L. Craig, Retired, Louisville Rose W. Harris, Homemaker, Elizabethtown Facilities Management — 4703 Howard A. Pope, Physician, Louisville, KY 100 Allen Central Services Building, Box 2405, Jeremiah W. Rhoden, Co-owner, Louisville Overstock, Fax 897-4213 Louisville Patricia A. Skelton, Retired, Shelbyville Financial Aid — 4206 Richard L. Staab, Retired, Louisville 150 Norton, Box 2369, Fax 897-4031 Guest Housing (see Legacy Center) Offices Health and Recreation Center — 4720 Academic Administration — 4099 115 HCC, Box 2373 147 Norton, Box 319, Fax 897-4004 Housing Services — 4203 Academic Advising — 4680 118 Honeycutt, Box 2372, Fax 897-4202 154 Norton, Fax 897-4031 Human Resources — 4721 Academic Records — 4209 108 Rankin, Box 2396, Fax 897-4202 153 Norton, Box 269, Fax 897-4814 Institutional Advancement — 4143 Academic Services — 4205 Foundation House, Box 2403, Fax 897-4144 156 Norton, Box 2366, Fax 897-4031 Intercultural Programs — 4315 Accounting — 4132 109 Cooke, Box 2378, Fax 897-4042 119 Carver, Box 2390, Fax 897-4181 International Services — 4208 Admissions — 4200 150 Norton, Box 2366, Fax 897-4031 218 HCC, Box 2375, Fax 897-4723 International Church Planting — 4593 Applied Ministry — 4682 (2+2 / 2+3 Program) 154 Norton, Box 2366 Legacy Center — 736-0600 Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization — 4594 LifeWay Campus Store — 4506 218 HCC, Box 937, Fax 897-4788 Library — 4713 Billy Graham School of Missions, Box 294, Fax 897-4600 Evangelism and Ministry — 4108 103 Cooke Hall, Box 1959, Fax 897-4042 Ministry Connnections — 4682 154 Norton, Box 2366, Fax 897-4031 Boyce College — 4693 Box 1734, Fax 897-4799 Online Learning — 4305 94 Norton, Box 2378, Fax 897-4812 Boyce Student Life — 4015 Box 1734, Fax 897-4799 President’s Office — 4121 2nd Floor Norton, Box 244, Fax: 899-1770

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Directory | page 157 Post Office — 4212 James W. Cox 100 HCC, Box 2365 B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Senior Professor of Christian Preaching (1959) Professional Doctoral Studies — 4113 164 Norton, Fax 897-4004 Esther R. Crookshank B.M., M.A., Ph.D. — Ollie Hale Chiles Professor of Church Research Doctoral Studies — 4119 Music (1994); Director, Academy of Sacred Music 164 Norton, Box 1883, Fax 897-4004 Joseph R. Crider School of Theology — 4112 B.A., M.A., D.A. — Ernest and Mildred Hogan Professor 146 Norton, Box 319, Fax 897-4004 of Church Music and Worship (2011); Executive Director, Security — 4444 Institute for Biblical Worship Seminary Wives Institute — 4816 C. Berry Driver B.A., M.Div., M.S.L.S., Ph.D. — Professor of Church Shield Card — 4444 History (2014); Associate Vice President for Academic 100 HCC Resources; Seminary Librarian Student Accounts — 4128 Russell T. Fuller B.S., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. — Professor of Old Testament Switchboard — 4011 Interpretation (1998) Youth Ministry — 4207 Duane A. Garrett Rankin Hall, Box 2386 B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation (2004) Peter J. Gentry Faculty B.A., M.A., Ph.D. — Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Gregg R. Allison Testament Interpretation (1999) B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Theology Adam W. Greenway (2003) B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — William Walker Brookes Associate Timothy K. Beougher Professor of Evangelism and Applied Apologetics B.S., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. — Billy Graham Professor (2007); Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, of Evangelism and Church Growth (1996); Associate Evangelism and Ministry Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, James M. Hamilton Evangelism and Ministry B.A., Th.M., Ph.D. — Professor of Biblical Theology Phillip R. Bethancourt (2008) B.A., M.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Michael A. G. Haykin Christian Theology (2011) B.A., M.Rel., Th.D. — Professor of Church History and Terry J. Betts Biblical Spirituality (2008) B.S.Ed., M.Div., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of Old Kenneth S. Hemphill Testament Interpretation (2001) B.A., M.Div., D.Min., Ph.D. — Distinguished Professor of Douglas K. Blount Evangelism and Church Growth (2004) B.A., M.A., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Philosophy William D. Henard III and Ethics B.A., M.Div., D.Min., Ph.D., LL.D. (hon.) — Assistant Gregory B. Brewton Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth (2007) B.M.E., M.C.M., D.M.M. — Carolyn King Ragan Associate G. Maurice Hinson Professor of Church Music (2002); Chair, Department of B.A., M.M., D.M.A. — Senior Professor of Church Biblical Worship Music (1957) Theodore J. Cabal Ayman Ibrahim B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian B.A., M.A., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Philosophy and Applied Apologetics (1998) (2015); Senior Fellow, Jenkins Center for the Christian William F. Cook, III Understanding of Islam B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of New Testament Eric L. Johnson Interpretation (2000) B.Th., M.A.C.S., M.A., Ph.D. — Lawrence and Charlotte Mark T. Coppenger Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care (2000) B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Timothy Paul Jones Apologetics (2004) B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — C. Edwin Gheens Professor page 158 | Directory SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 of Christian Family Ministry (2007); Associate Vice David L. Puckett President for Online Learning and Extension B.A., Th.M., Ph.D. — Professor of Church History Education; Editor, The Journal of Discipleship (2002) and Family Ministry Thom S. Rainer J. Phillip Landgrave B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Distinguished Professor of B.A., B.C.M., M.C.M., D.M.A. — Senior Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth (2006) Church Music (1964) Brian C. Richardson Charles T. Lewis Jr. B.A., M.A., Ph.D. — Basil Manly Jr. Professor of B.ME., M.ME., M.CM., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Leadership and Discipleship (1996); Chair, Department Church Music and Worship (2011) of Leadership and Discipleship Kenneth Magnuson Thomas R. Schreiner B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Ethics B.S., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. — James Buchanan Harrison (1999) Professor of New Testament Interpretation (1997); Associate Dean of the School of Theology George H. Martin B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Missions and M. David Sills World Religions (1996); Editor, The Southern Baptist B.A., M.Div., D.Miss., Ph.D. — A.P. and Faye Stone Journal of Missions and Evangelism Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology (2003) Eugene H. Merrill B.A., M.A., Ph.D., M.Phil., Ph.D. — Distinguished Kevin L. Smith Professor of Old Testament Interpretation (2005) B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. (candidate) — Assistant Professor of Christian Preaching (2006) R. Albert Mohler, Jr. B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Joseph Emerson Brown Professor Robert H. Stein of Christian Theology (1993); President of The Southern B.A., B.D., S.T.M., Ph.D. — Senior Professor of New Baptist Theological Seminary Testament Interpretation (1997) Russell D. Moore B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Distinguished Professor of Christian Randy L. Stinson Ethics (2013) B.A., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. — Professor of Leadership and Family Ministry (2006); Senior Vice President for James A. Parker III Academic Administration and Provost B.A., M.A., M.Div., Th.M., D.Theol. — Professor of Worldview and Culture (1999) John David Trentham B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Leadership Jonathan T. Pennington and Discipleship (2013); Director of the Doctor of B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of New Education program Testament Interpretation (2005); Director of Research Doctoral Studies Brian J. Vickers B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of New Jeremy P. Pierre Testament Interpretation (2004) B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling (2011); Dean of Students T. Vaughn Walker B.S., M.S., M.Div, Ph.D. — WMU Professor of Christian Robert L. Plummer Ministries (1996) and Professor of Black Church Studies B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of New Testament (1986) Interpretation (2002) Jeff K. Walters Michael E. Pohlman B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Christian Christian Missions and Urban Ministry (2012); Chair, Preaching (2015) Department of Evangelism and Missions; Director, John B. Polhill Dehoney Center for Urban Ministry Training; Director of B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Senior Professor of New Testament the Doctor of Missiology program Interpretation (1969) Bruce A. Ware A.S., Cert., B.A., M.Div., Th.M., M.A., Ph.D. — T. Rupert Zane G. Pratt and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. (candidate) — Associate Professor of (1998) Christian Missions (2011) Stephen J. Wellum David E. Prince B.S., M.Div., Ph.D. — Professor of Christian Theology B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Christian (1999); Editor, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology Preaching (2012)

SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Directory | page 159 Donald S. Whitney B.A., M.Div., D.Min., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality (2005); Associate Dean of the School of Theology Michael S. Wilder B.B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — J. M. Frost Associate Professor of Leadership and Discipleship (2006); Associate Vice President for Doctoral Studies Jarvis J. Williams B.S., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation (2013) Gregory A. Wills B.S., M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. — Professor of Church History (1997); Dean of the School of Theology; Director of the Center for the Study of the Southern Baptist Convention Shawn D. Wright B.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Associate Professor of Church History (2001) Hershael W. York B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. — Victor and Louise Lester Professor of Christian Preaching (1997)

page 160 | Directory SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Academic Calendar This calendar lists pivotal dates in the life of the seminary. For important dates related to specific degree programs, consult the appropriate office. 2015 2016

AUGUST JANUARY 14 Seminary Orientation 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 17 Seminary Fall Classes Begin 22 Seminary Orientation 25 Convocation 22 Seminary Winter Term Ends 25 Seminary Spring Term Begins SEPTEMBER 7 Labor Day FEBRUARY. 11 SBTS Preview Day 2 Convocation 15-16 Andrew Fuller Conference 8-12 Great Commission Focus 24-25 SBTS Theology Conference MARCH OCTOBER 25 Good Friday 5-9 Fall Break 5 CBMW Pre-Conference APRIL 5-7 ACBC Annual Conference 4-8 Spring Break 16 SBTS Preview Day 11-15 Spring Reading Days (T4G) 27-29 Expositors Summit 22 Groups SBTS Preview Day

NOVEMBER MAY 20 Seminary Last Day of Classes 6 Seminary Last Day of Classes 23-27 Fall Reading Days 9-13 Seminary Final Exams 30-Dec. 5 Seminary Final Exams 19 Seminary Graduation Rehearsal 20 Seminary Graduation DECEMBER 23 Seminary Summer Courses Begin 10 Seminary Graduation Rehearsal 11 Seminary Graduation JUNE 14 Seminary Winter Term Begins 13-15 SBC Annual Meeting

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LEGACY HOTEL HOTEL LEGACY & CONFERENCE CENTER Human Resources Human Administration Institutional Operations Billy Graham School of Missions, Billy School of Missions, Graham Ministry and Evangelism O ces Faculty Recital Hall Heeren Central Stores Central Maintenance Facilities Alumni Relations Relations Alumni Advancement Institutional Association of Certied Biblical Counselors of Certied Association FOSTER HALLFOSTER COOKE HALL HOUSE FOUNDATION Housing Apartment ALLEN CENTRAL BUILDING SERVICES APARTMENTS SPRINGDALE Housing Apartment SAMUELS APARTMENTS MISSIONARY Apartments Furnished APARTMENTS SOUTH GRINSTEAD Housing Apartment HALL CARVER O. W. Accounting Services Business Technology Campus Housing Dorm Hall Ingram RANKIN HALL LAWN SEMINARY MAIN ENTRANCE 7 9 3 2 5 6 0 4 8 21 18 19 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Sampey Commons Hall Heritage Room Dining President‘s Room Reception President’s Life Student Dillard Chapel Hall Dining Center Recreation and Health O ce Housing Student Admissions Mobilization Missions for Bevin Center Communications Bursar Productions Event Clinic Hagan H. Hart O ce Post & U.S. Store Campus Broadway and 5th Emporium Edgar’s Café Founders’ Store Campus LifeWay Dean and Administration of Boyce College of Boyce Dean Administration and SAMPEY HALL WILLIAMS HALL CAMPUS CENTERHONEYCUTT - NORTH Level Upper Lower Level LEVERING GYM CAMPUS CENTERHONEYCUTT - SOUTH Level Upper Lower Level MEMORIALALUMNI CHAPEL Media Event Dorm Housing Dorm Dorm Housing Dorm O ces Faculty 7 6 4 1 13 12 15 1 1

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SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 Directory | page 163 • The 70-acre main campus features buildings in classical Facts about Southern Seminary Georgian architecture. The newest addition, the Legacy • Founded in 1859 in Greenville, SC, as the first seminary Center, houses conference and guest rooms. in the Southern Baptist Convention. • One of the few seminaries to offer an extensive Health • Moved to Louisville, KY, in 1877 and to its present and Recreation facility. campus on Lexington Road in 1926. • State-of-the-art classrooms designed with video • First session in 1859 included 26 students and four projectors for presenta-tions, internet access, and other professors. By 1926, Southern Seminary was the largest innovative learning options. seminary in the world. • The James P. Boyce Centennial Library’s extensive • Southern was one of the first theological institutions to collections now exceed one million catalogued items pioneer doctoral-level study. Southern’s Ph.D. was the including materials from Dr. Boyce’s personal library first Doctor of Philosophy degree to be offered by a and premier collections in the area of Baptist studies. seminary in the U.S. The holdings of the Boyce Library rank it among the • In 1906, Southern created the nation’s first Christian foremost seminary libraries in North America. education program. • More than 4,000 students representing all 50 states, 45 • Today Southern Seminary is one of the largest foreign countries and some 700 colleges and universities seminaries in the world and the largest of the make up the student body of Southern Seminary. denomination’s six seminaries. • Thanks to the Cooperative Program, tuition for each • Boyce College, a school of Southern Seminary, offers Southern Baptist student is substantially reduced, fully accredited associate and baccalaureate degrees in making Southern Seminary and Boyce College excellent Biblical Studies. values for theological education.

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From the NORTH (I-65 Southbound): I-65 South to I-64 East From the SOUTH (I-65 Northbound): I-65 North to I-64 East (Exit 137) (Exit 137) I-64 to Grinstead Drive (Exit 8) Right onto Grinstead I-64 to Grinstead Drive (Exit 8) Right onto Grinstead Drive Immediate Drive Immediate Left onto Lexington Road 1.5 miles to Seminary Left onto Lexington Road 1.5 miles to Seminary on the Left. on the Left. From the EAST (I-64 Westbound): I-64 West to Grinstead Drive (Exit 8) Left onto Grinstead Drive Immediate Left onto Lexington Road 1.5 From the WEST (I-64 Eastbound): I-64 East to Grinstead Drive miles to Seminary on the Left. (Exit 8) Right onto Grinstead Drive Immediate Left onto Lexington Road 1.5 miles to Seminary on the Left. From the NORTHEAST (I-71 Southbound): I-71 South to I-264 Watterson Expressway (Exit 5) I-264 South to I-64 West (Exit 19) I-64 to Grinstead Drive (Exit 8) Left onto Grinstead Drive Immediate Left onto Lexington Road 1.5 miles to Seminary on the Left. page 164 | Directory SOUTHERN SEMINARY CATALOG | 2015-2016 AdmissionsIndex

A E (see Admissions Acceptance Abstract of Principles...... 8-9 Email...... 29 Categories)...... 24 Academic Calendar...... 162 Employment Academic Standing...... 36 Church...... 32 O Accreditation...... 14 Louisville...... 33 Orientation...... 35 Administration...... 4-7 Evaluation of Classes...... 40 Admissions...... 20-26 Event Productions...... 31 P Acceptance Categories...... 24 Extension Centers...... 18, 37 Payment of Tuition Diploma...... 22 and Fees...... 41-42 Deadlines...... 26 F Placement Examination and Master...... 22 Faculty Auditions in Music...... 79 Professional Doctoral ...... 23 Billy Graham Post Office (see Fifth and Research Doctoral...... 23 School...... 72-77, 159-161 Broadway)...... 31 Advanced Placement Testing...... 35 Theology...... 43-52, 159-161 Advising...... 35 Fees and Charges...... 41-42 R Applied Ministry Fifth and Broadway...... 31 Readmission...... 41 Programs...... 53, 78 Final Examinations...... 38 Recitals...... 81 Attendance, class...... 36 Financial Aid...... 27-28 Recreation and Fitness...... 30 G Refunds...... 34 B Grade Change...... 37 Registration...... 34 Baptist Faith and Message, The...... 9-14 Grading System...... 37 Repeated Courses...... 38 Billy Graham School of Missions, Graduation...... 38 Research Doctoral Evangelism and Ministry...... 72-116 Program...... 23, 69, 116 Board of Trustees...... 157 H Bookstore...... 31 Health Insurance...... 30 S Boyce College...... 16 Historical Sketch...... 15 Scholarships...... 27 Housing...... 32 Seminary Wives Institute...... 17 C Spouse/Dependent Fees...... 42 Campus Police...... 31 I Student Councils and Campus Requirements...... 37 ID Cards...... 29 Organizations...... 29 Class Schedules...... 35 Incomplete Coursework...... 38 Student Handbook...... 29 Clinic...... 30 Independent Study...... 36 Commuter Housing...... 32 International Applicants...... 25 T Cooperative Program...... 35 Internet Courses/Global Campus...... 19 TEAM-A...... 35 Costs...... 41-42 L Theology, School of...... 43-71 Course Descriptions...... 117 Legacy Hotel, The...... 31 Transcripts...... 38 Course Load...... 37 Library...... 31 Transfer of Credit...... 39 Loans...... 28 Transfer of Degree Program...... 40 D Tuition and Fees...... 41-42 Denominational Affiliation...... 15 M Dining Services...... 31 Master of Arts V Diploma Programs Billy Graham School...... 95-103 Veterans’ Benefits...... 28 Church Ministries...... 22, 104 School of Theology...... 63-64 Visiting Scholar Program...... 19 Missions...... 22, 105 Master of Church Music...... 94 Visiting Students (see Admissions Theology...... 22, 65 Master of Divinity Acceptance Categories)...... 24 Disability Services...... 30 Billy Graham School...... 83-93 Vocational Rehabilitation...... 28 Divorce (see Admissions School of Theology...... 55-62 Acceptance Categories)...... 24 Master of Theology W Billy Graham School...... 113-115 Withdrawal...... 40 Doctor of Education...... 113-115 School of Theology...... 69-70 Women’s Leadership...... 17 Doctor of Metroversity...... 35 Women’s Ministry Institute...... 17 Educational Ministry...... 106-109 Mission...... 1, 14 Worship (see Chapel)...... 29 Doctor of Ministry Missions Opportunities...... 30 Written Communication Billy Graham School...... 110-111 Requirement...... 36 School of Theology...... 66-69 N Doctor of Missiology...... 112-113 Non-Degree Student Status Doctor of Philosophy (see Admissions Acceptance Billy Graham School...... 115-116 Categories)...... 24 School of Theology...... 70-71 Non-Southern Baptist Applicants

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