Bethel Seminary St. Paul
The Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership
The Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership (offered through the InMinistry program) prepares emerging leaders for ministry in churches and missions organizations. The Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership is a cooperative venture between Bethel Seminary and designated partner churches or missions agencies that provide a supervised ministry site and sponsor a student or student cohort group. This unique educational setting provides a day to day ministry context for study, leadership development, and ministry application. Students who currently serve in professional ministry or who have significant lay leadership responsibilities can complete degree requirements through a distributed learning format with a blend of fully distance courses, local onsite mentored leadership courses, and on-campus intensives taught at Bethel Seminary St. Paul and Bethel Seminary of the East—New England center in Auburn, Mass. The 24-course sequence is accomplished in approximately 36 months.
A hallmark of this program is the link between classroom learning, peer interaction among the cohort group, and practical application in the day to day supervised ministry context of the student. This program includes 12 courses focused on biblical and theological foundations. These include hermeneutics, both Old and New Testament, systematic theology, and church history. In addition, the professional emphasis of this degree program focuses on principles of transformational leadership, team leadership, communication and organizational leadership, and mentored leadership development.
The seminary confers a Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership upon students who satisfactorily complete the prescribed program-related requirements. These include the completion of course requirements, participation in the assessment and evaluation program, the writing of a satisfactory personal statement of faith, achieving a grade point average of C (2.0) or above, financial clearance from the business office, and participation in graduation ceremonies. Graduation is not automatic when academic requirements have been met. Since the seminary aims to graduate men and women who qualify as Christian leaders, the faculty and administration will evaluate a student’s qualifications in terms of spiritual, doctrinal, and professional standards as well as academic standards.
The suggested sequence of courses for the Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership degree is listed below.
Degree Requirements
Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership—InMinistry
Required Courses
| BT501 | Hermeneutics | 4 |
| GC503 | Introduction to Missions and Evangelism | 4 |
| HS503 | Church History Survey | 4 |
| NT501 | The Gospels | 4 |
| NT502 | Acts and Pauline Letters | 4 |
| OT501 | Genesis - Ruth | 4 |
| OT502 | I Samuel - Song of Songs | 4 |
| OT503 | Isaiah - Malachi | 4 |
| TL501 | Culture and Ministry | 4 |
| TS501 | Systematic Theology I | 4 |
| TS502 | Systematic Theology II | 4 |
| TS503 | Systematic Theology III | 4 |
| TS105 | Christian Social Ethics | 4 |
Concentration Courses and Electives
| ML513 | Transformational Leadership | 4 |
| ML602 | Ministry Leadership Foundations | 4 |
| ML610 | Communication and Org. Leadership | 4 |
| ML622 | Measurement-Based Leadership | 4 |
| ML650 | Self Leadership | 4 |
| ML661 | Team Leadership | 4 |
| ML792 | Senior Integrative Seminar | 4 |
| TS605 | Theology and Contemporary Culture | 4 |
Ministry Experience
| ML551,2,3 | Mentored Leadership Development I | 4 |
| ML561,2,3 | Mentored Leadership Development II | 4 |
| ML571,2,3 | Mentored Leadership Development III | 4 |
Other Requirements
| SP001 | Formation Assessments | 0 |
| TL001 | Vocational Assessments | 0 |
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Senior Statement of Faith |
0 |
A minimum of 96 credits is required for graduation. The student is responsible
to meet all graduation deadlines and requirements. Your faculty advisor and
the registrar will be happy to answer questions and offer guidance.