In this era of continuing education at all age levels, it is increasingly important to continue personal and professional growth to better serve the Lord and humanity in an educated society.

The mission of the Seminary Division is to provide quality, rigorous academic study for experienced Christian professionals. It builds upon your significant professional and personal competence, and seeks to enhance that competence through scholarly inquiry and continuously improving ministerial practice.

The specific educational and spiritual objectives of the Seminary are:

1. To create alternative graduate-level opportunities for pastors, missionaries, evangelists and other Christian professionals.
   
   

   To offer nonresident studies comparable to resident programs in rigor and learning outcomes through the tutorial supervision of qualified faculty mentors.

   
   To enable experienced mid-career, self-motivated ministers to earn advanced degrees without leaving their present ministries.

   
   To enhance professional competency through a deeper understanding of biblical-theological truth and its application in all facets of ministry

   
   To utilize the obvious advantages and opportunities available to the student learner who serves in a local church setting, who is engaged in actual practical ministry, and functions as a full-time professional or as a layperson.

   
   To prepare Christian professionals for ministries in all areas. Our professional degrees are not generally designed, however, as academic preparation for a residential teaching career.

Programs of Study

Master of Theological Studies
This requires a minimum of 36 semester hours, a portion of which may be practicum credits for reported and evaluated ministry. Given appropriate time by the student for focused study, this program can be completed in one year.

Master of Divinity
A minimum of 90 semester hours are required, 30 of which may be in the form of reported, documented and evaluated practical ministry.

Doctor of Ministry
This is a 30-hour program designed to compare with other theological seminaries. Only those actually engaged in ministry and who have 3 years or more of practical experience are admitted. An M.Div. or equivalent is a prerequisite.

Doctor of Theology
Because of the academic rigor of this degree program, a Master of Divinity degree (90-hours) or equivalent, plus familiarity with the Biblical languages, are prerequisites for the 45-hour Th.D. program. Applicants with only a 36-45 hour Master's degree in Bible, theology or religion may be accepted into the 60-hour Th.D. program, with some possible makeup studies being required.

Advanced Theological Studies - In addition to the standard track courses, this degree can involve a rigorous research program which builds on previously completed courses in theology and religion, taken as requirements for previously earned graduate degrees.

A Practical Research Program in Pastoral Theology - A program of standard track studies and elective research options designed to better qualify and equip today's ministers with the unique skills and materials needed to effectively minister to and lead people into the 21st century.

A Unique Program in Prophetic Studies - Designed to provide a thorough explanation of Eschatology and extended research in the various areas of biblical prophetic literature.

Specialized Program Center For Advanced Prophetics
Originally initiated in 1996 as the institute for Prophetic Studies, the now renamed Center is collecting and organizing books, tapes, articles and resource materials for advanced study in the field of Biblical Eschatology.

All graduates from the University or the Seminary with doctoral degrees in Advanced Prophetics become FELLOWS of the Center, including co-enrolled graduates of Tyndale Theological Seminary.

The Center participates with these institutions in developing research and guidance for Masters and Doctoral candidates in Advanced Prophetics. Unique in the world are these strongly dispensational, pre-trib, premillennial eschatological programs leading to advanced degrees through distance learning with a high caliber of faculty members, mentors and advisors. All such studies are conducted under the overall supervision of Executive Director, James Combs, supported by outstanding recognized prophecy specialists.

Our goal is to inspire, educate and foster in the 21st century leading scholars, evangelists, pastors and teachers to carry the shining torch of prophetic truth, if our Lord tarries for additional decades.

"We have also the word of prophecy made more sure, whereunto ye do well to take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the Day dawn and the Daystar arise in our hearts."

If you "love His appearing" (II Timothy 4:8), you are invited to enroll for a degree and in the future to become a FELLOW of The Center for Advanced Prophetics.