Master’s Degree Program

Redemption Seminary currently offers one degree program, a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies that is tailored to your ministry interests. It is composed of 10 mentored courses that provide a well-rounded graduate-level theological degree. Each course has application exercises to help you apply the theology that you are learning to your ministry context. The capstone course takes a ministry effort that you are currently working on and enables you to advance it.

Master of Arts in Biblical Studies (MABS)

This degree is the core of various programs at Redemption Seminary. It is a well-rounded master’s level program that focuses on personal spiritual development so that you can approach the Bible and others with greater wisdom and self-awareness.

Individual courses help hone your exegetical and interpretive skills as you examine the Bible, its historical context, theology, and Church history. When you are ready to complete each course, you register for weekly meetings with a mentor-professor of your choice, who will help you apply what you learn to life and ministry. Lectures are recordings delivered by a collection of well-known scholars through Logos Mobile Education recorded courses. (Feel free to search the internet for their names to see where they have taught or currently teach). This program concludes with a directed study that helps you produce a written work that advances your calling and current ministry efforts.

Summary

  • 36 credits

  • Approximate Time to complete:

    • Moderate pace: Two years (one course per term)

    • Accelerated pace: One year (two courses per term)

    • Extended pace: Five years (two courses per year), or longer

  • Key benefits

    • Personal spiritual development

    • Understanding the content and theology of the Bible

    • Understanding Church history and how to apply theology in context

Program Course List:

All content from lecture-professors is recorded material within Logos Mobile Mobile Education courses. Lecture-professors are not part of the Redemption Seminary Faculty. See Redemption Seminary’s Faculty Page for more information.

SF511
Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders
(Dr. Justin Irving teaching recorded course lectures)

OT551
Old Testament Theology
(Dr. Bruce Waltke teaching recorded course lectures)

NT551
New Testament Theology
(Dr. Douglas Moo teaching recorded course lectures)

BI621
Biblical Interpretation
(Dr. Kevin VanHoozer and Dr. Michael Heiser teaching recorded course lectures)

TH712
Theology of God and the Creation
(Dr. Peter Leithart, Dr. Ronn Johnson, Dr. Carl Sanders, Dr. Joseph Pipa, Dr. Mark Futato, Dr. John Collins, Dr. Tremper Longman, and Dr. John Walton teaching recorded course lectures)

TH713
Theology of God and Redemption
(Dr. Ronn Johnson, Dr. Carl Sanders, Dr. D. A. Carson, Dr. Michael Bird, and others teaching recorded course lectures)

ED621
Discipleship
(Dr. Frank Cardoza and Dr. Daniel Doriani teaching recorded course lectures)

CH515
Church History
(Dr. Frank James teaching recorded course lectures)

RS731
Theology in Culture and Context
(Dr. John Frame and Dr. John Fuder teaching recorded course lectures)

RS752
Applied Biblical Studies
(Dr. Richard Newton and others teaching recorded course lectures)

Program Learning Outcomes

These mission connections provide the groundwork for the program outcomes that address the contents within the field of study, students’ relationships to the Lord, others, and their calling, and students’ self-awareness and orientation to these relationships.

By completing the Master of Arts in Biblical Studies, students will:

  • Analyze key concepts and events in the field of biblical studies. (Cognitive Focus -

    Knowledge)

  • Adapt principles learned in biblical studies to their ministry context. (Behavioral Focus -

    Skills and Habits in Horizontal Relationships)

  • Evaluate and continue to develop their spiritual relationship with Jesus. (Behavioral

    Focus - Skills and Habits in Vertical Relationships)

  • Integrate self-awareness of their dispositions and affections in their relationships with

    the Lord, others, and their calling. (Affective Focus - Attitudes and Values)