Master of Divinity | Dort Theological Seminary

Master of Divinity Program

OTS 600: Old Testament Survey (3 Credits)

This course in the Old Testament offers students a thorough understanding of three key issues: historical background, literary analysis, and theological message.

THS 600: Systematic Theology I (4 Credits)

This course aims to reconnect the often compartmentalized aspects of intellect, faith, and obedience in the study of systematic theology.

THS 601: Systematic Theology II (4 Credits)

This course aims to engage not only the head but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these aspects of life. Separating the academic discipline of theology from the spiritual disciplines of faith and obedience.

THS 602: Systematic Theology III (4 Credits)

This course brings together rigorous historical and theological scholarship with spiritual disciplines and practical insights characterized by a simple, accessible, comprehensive, Reformed, and experiential approach.

THS 603: Systematic Theology IV (4 Credits)

This course explores key Scripture topics from biblical, doctrinal, experiential, and practical perspectives, helping students grow in their understanding and application of the truth presented in God’s Word.

NTS 600: New Testament Survey (3 Credits)

This course focuses on historical questions dealing with authorship, date, sources, purpose, destination, and so forth, ensuring that the New Testament books will be accurately understood within historical settings.

HOS 600: Homiletics I (3 Credits)

This course covers expository preaching and guides students from preparation and organization to delivery.

HOS 601: Homiletics II (3 Credits)

This course covers the need for biblical preaching that both informs minds and engages hearts.

HES 601: Hermeneutics (3 Credits)

This course brings together a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics and moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism.

CHS 600: Church History I (3 Credits)

This course offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the early days of church to the years leading up to the Reformation.

CHS 601: Church History II (3 Credits)

This course chronicles the events, the triumphs, and the struggles of the Christian movement from the Reformation through the next five centuries to the present-day.

APS 601: Christian Apologetics II (2 Credits)

This course sets forth the principles that undergird a classic Reformed approach.

APS 600: Christian Apologetics I (2 Credits)

This course examines the apologetics of Cornelius Van Til.

EVS 600: Evangelism (2 Credits)

This course covers a careful review of the biblical evidence, and shows how a right understanding of God's sovereignty is not so much a barrier to evangelism as an incentive and powerful support for it.

MIS 600: The Mission of God (2 Credits)

This course provides a sweeping biblical survey of the holistic mission of the church, providing practical insight for today's church leaders.

ETS 600: Ethics (4 Credits)

This course covers how to apply a biblical worldview to difficult ethical issues, including wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, business practices, environmental stewardship, telling the truth, knowing God’s will.

BCS 601: Biblical Counseling II (2 Credits)

This course is a continuation of the Biblical Counseling I course going deeper into nouthetic counseling.

BCS 600: Biblical Counseling I (2 Credits)

This course covers the development of both a general approach to Christian counseling and a specific response to particular problems. Using biblically directed discussion, nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit to bring about change in the personality and behavior of the counselee.

WOS 600: Reformed Worship (2 Credits)

This course covers the fundamentals of worship, drawing from Scripture and Reformed confessions.

COS 600: The Canons of Dort (2 Credits)

This course looks at how there has been a renewed interest in the five points of Calvinism among many Christians today.

COS 601: The Heidelberg Catechism (2 Credits)

This course examines key aspects of the development of the Heidelberg Catechism, including historical background, socio-political origins, purpose, authorship, sources, and theology.

COS 602: The Belgic Confession (2 Credits)

This course examines the Belgic Confession as one of the most important and oldest doctrinal statements of the Reformed churches.

Students must complete either all biblical language courses or complete a masters thesis.

BLS 600: Biblical Hebrew (6 Credits)

This course serves as an introduction to the Basics of Biblical Hebrew.

BLS 602: Biblical Greek (6 Credits)

This course serves as an introduction to the Basics of Biblical Greek.

THE 600: Masters Thesis (12 Credits)

This course will entail the completion of a comprehensive research paper covering a seminary approved topic.

THS 604: Covenant Theology (2 Credits)