Master of Divinity
Schedule Options | Admissions | Application Deadlines | Catalog | Finances | ChaplaincyThe Master of Divinity is a professional ministry degree that prepares students to serve as senior and lead pastors. Graduates serve in a variety of churches, parachurch organizations, and innovative ministry settings including church planting, chaplaincy, and missional ministries.
Program Features
- 84-credit-hour professional degree
- Offers concentrations in biblcial studies, pastoral studies, chaplaincy, Christian history and theology, and spiritual formation
- Prepares student for ordination and service
- Balance of courses from each discipline
- Foundational degree for military or hospital chaplaincy
- Internship required
What does a Master of Divinity graduate look like?
Program Objectives
- Interact with Christian Scripture, history, and theology; to interpret the truths critically; and to express them faithfully.
- Experience an ever-deepening sense of the reality of Christ through spiritual formation.
- Understand themselves and relate to others as created in God's image and called into community.
- Engage in the just transformation of societies through personal and social holiness motivated by love.
- Lead the church under the lordship of Jesus Christ in its mission and ministries.
- Be equipped practically to preach, teach, exercise pastoral care, equip, and lead in the local church.
Schedule Options
- Offered in Portland, Oregon where students commute from across the Northwest
- Students choose Mondays and/or Thursdays classes of three-hour blocks
- Students have the opportunity to take 10 credit hours on one day
- Students choose from a variety of Web-enhanced, online, or weekend courses (intensives)
Admissions
Application deadlines
July 1 for fall semester
Nov. 1 for spring semester
April 1 for summer term
Finances
Books: $50 per credit hour