Jeff Straub, Program Director

The Ph.D. program requires the successful completion of 60 hours of work. These hours involve sixteen courses, research language exams, qualifying exams, a teaching practicum, comprehensive exams, and dissertation.

Five courses are designed to give to each student a broader scope of interdisciplinary biblical and theological studies. Every student is required to take the faculty integrative seminar in hermeneutics (XX 901). He also takes one course of his choosing in each discipline other than his own.

Finally, each student takes one required course in his discipline. Of the sixteen courses, two are designed to assist the student in research and writing.

The remaining nine seminars give the student the opportunity to focus on his discipline. Five of these nine electives must be taken in the student’s discipline.

The research languages include German and a second language, which is normally French.

The qualifying exams cover four topics:

• cessationism
• dispensationalism
• Baptist distinctives
• biblical separation

Each student must complete a teaching practicum within his area of concentration.

The comprehensive exams include four written exams and an oral examination before the faculty.

As a last step in the Doctor of Philosophy program, the student will submit a dissertation of approximately 250 pages.

Program-Specific Admissions Requirements