Apologetics (APOL)
This course offers a broad introduction to ministry as an expression of applied apologetics, the challenges and opportunities related to ministry in the contemporary context of the 21st century, and the various expressions of the practice of ministry
Offered: Online
This course introduces students to relevant philosophical foundations for learning and critical thinking in a way that will prepare them for their future academic work related to applied apologetics.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: DMIN 810
This course examines the apologetic value of the miraculous, giving special emphasis to the resurrection of Jesus, as it bears on Christian theology and the life and mission of the Church.
Note: Available to DMIN Students only
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: RTCH 805
In this course students will facilitate the development of the dissertation concept. Comprehensive exams over the foundational courses will allow students to demonstrate the mastery of the undergirding principles of this degree and their focused area of applied apologetics.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: DMIN 810
This course equips students to understand, evaluate, and engage cultural trends from a Christian ministerial perspective. Students will learn a biblical theology of culture which they will use to evaluate strategies for church engagement in the culture. Particular emphasis will be placed on the intersections that exist between ecclesial ministry, cultural influences in the western world, and apologetics.
Registration Restrictions: Admission to the DMIN Program
Offered: Online
This course familiarizes students with the processes, resources, and skills involved in surveying, analyzing, and synthesizing the scholarly literature related to a research topic to position the student’s own research within the scholarly conversation of the topic.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 845
This course applies the principles, resources, and skills learned in previous courses for conducting an academic literature review, including the theoretical framework and research methodology. Students will accomplish this by creating a literature review of the academic conversations around their proposed topic for the purpose of determining both their topic’s suitability for a dissertation as well as positioning the student’s research as a contribution to the on-going scholarly conversations of the topic.
Offered: Online
In this course, students will be introduced to the various methods and requisite skills involved in conducting focused doctoral-level research of a proposed topic, including both research modalities and resources required to conduct a thorough investigation of a topic in support of a proposed dissertation.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 847
In this course, students will learn to execute focused research in an appropriate field of study and further develop their ability to both collect data and use that data in ways that are discernable to an academic audience. Students will accomplish this by identifying a research inquiry that is appropriate to their program, designing a research argument that helps satisfy that inquiry, and producing an academic presentation that articulates that argument and reflects scholarly research.
Offered: Online
In this course students will improve their ability to synthesize information and articulate the relationships between interrelated concepts that pertain to an appropriate area of study. To this end, students will examine and analyze the scholarly works of others so that they may grow in their ability to organize an argument in a compelling way.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 849
In this course students will draw upon what they have learned throughout this program to develop a compelling dissertation concept and articulate how a compelling argument will be investigated and ultimately satisfied in their coming dissertation project. This will be achieved after students fine-tune a dissertation proposal and develop an engaging and well-organized presentation of what they hope to demonstrate in their dissertation project.
Offered: Online
A reading seminar which focuses on the basic literature in the field.
Offered: Resident
A seminar critically examining various methods and taxonomies of apologetics. A detailed study of major Christian apologetic methodologies, as espoused by representative thinkers, from New Testament times to the present. Emphasis is placed on the structure and defense of various systems, including the formulation of a personal apologetic strategy.
Offered: Resident
A seminar examining classic and modern arguments against the miraculous with special attention to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Offered: Resident
A seminar examining the problem of evil in classical theology and apologetics. Theodicies from the time of the Church Fathers down through the modern era, as well as serious challenges to Christian theism, from both philosophy and apologetics, will be critically examined.
Offered: Resident
This seminar develops a biblical, theological, and philosophical framework for understanding, evaluating, and engaging culture.
Offered: Resident
A seminar examining current issues in apologetics, including pluralism, open theism, the validity/historicity of the biblical documents, and the validity of religious truth claims.
Offered: Resident
A seminar on apologetic approaches to major religions.
Offered: Resident
A course especially designed to deal with current issues in Christian evidences, so that the pastor can apply the results to preaching, teaching and evangelism.
Online Prerequisite: APOL 850
In this course, the doctoral candidate will compose the early chapters of a dissertation based on the candidate's research and organization of content.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 987
In this course, the doctoral candidate will compose the middle chapters of a dissertation based on the candidate's research and organization of content.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 988
In this course, the doctoral candidate will compose the final chapters of a dissertation based on the candidate's research and organization of content. This course may be repeated until the dissertation supervisor indicates the dissertation is ready to be defended
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: APOL 989
In this course, the doctoral candidate will provide an oral defense of his/her applied apologetics dissertation.
Offered: Online
Designed for the advanced student in good standing who has demonstrated an ability to work independently. The student will work with the instructor in developing a proposal for guided research in a specified area of Apologetics.
Offered: Resident
An intensive study in a specific subject of Apologetics. This course allows variation in the approach and content of the regular curriculum and often will be used by visiting professors.
Offered: Resident