With a Christian Thought degree, you’ll experience personal transformation and become equipped to transform culture.
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2 years
Estimated tuition
$19,440
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At Bethel, we're committed to helping you get the most out of your education. Your enrollment counselor is here to help you balance your program with your personal life and career goals.Program highlights
Innovative, relevant preparation
You’ll be equipped to deal with the most pressing cultural issues of our time.
Missional focus
You’ll gain the skills to make a compelling case for the Christian faith in the face of competing voices in modern culture.
Grounded in truth
You’ll build a rock-solid foundation of biblical authority and interpretation that equips you to recognize, discern, and communicate truth.
Holistic emphasis
You’ll experience holistic growth—intellectually, relationally, personally, and spiritually—so you can effectively engage and transform your context.
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Transformation starts here.
At Bethel Seminary, you’ll experience personal and spiritual transformation that will equip you to transform others—for eternal impact. Our M.A. in Christian Thought program prepares you to serve Christ in various cultural contexts, combining biblical training with agile leadership skills and a heart for others.
1994
Bethel Seminary becomes the first seminary in the U.S. to start offering classes online
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full time faculty in the department
Above all else, my education taught me there is no thought, no creativity, no hope, dream, or endeavor that is not affected by, filtered by, or ultimately interpreted by my faith and my belief. This is true of all people. I am my faith—I learned that at Bethel.
Joseph Holt ’01Professional musician
This has been one of the most rewarding educational experiences for me. It seems to me that the online format is actually more enriching than an in person class in many ways. It has been challenging and hard work but very much worth the effort.
John Beaugard
This has been a most rewarding educational experience. It seems to me the online format is actually more enriching than an in-person class in many ways. It has been challenging and hard work, but very much worth the effort.
John Beaugard S'19Career Outcomes
Wondering what you can do with a Christian Thought degree?
The M.A. in Christian Thought program will prepare you to dynamically contextualize biblical truth and theology, communicating it with relevance and authenticity in any ministry or marketplace context.
Skills
Learn how to:
- Construct a coherent Christian worldview and a compelling way of life that changes lives and communities
- Address deep, worldview questions such as the nature of truth, the nature and being of God, the authority of Scripture, the uniqueness of Christ, the origin and goal of creation, the problem of evil and suffering, and redemption in God’s kingdom
- Understand and articulate the Christian faith compellingly in a diverse, complex, always-changing world
- Integrate everything you learn into your own life, challenging you to grow emotionally, spiritually, and relationally
- Use biblical truth to inspire and personal wisdom to guide
Careers
Our graduates serve as:
- Pastors interested in engaging culture
- Teaching pastors
- Church planters
- Para-church and nonprofit leaders
- College ministry leaders
- Social and cultural entrepreneurs
- Christian school teachers
- Christians involved in law, education, business, media, politics, or the arts
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