D.Min. Concentration in Transformational Preaching

As a communicator of God’s word, staying true to the biblical text while remaining relevant to contemporary culture is critical. Through the D.Min. concentration in Transformational Preaching, Doctoral candidates will become intensely familiar with their own pulpit hermeneutic, cross-cultural homiletical traditions, and methods. Ultimately, students will research and develop a hermeneutic of preaching that transforms the lives within and beyond their ministry.

Graduates of the transformational preaching concentration will:

• Critically reflect upon the individually and socially transformative dimensions of Christian preaching.
• Deploy critical interpretive lenses and practices for the transformative interpretation of a biblical text in a particular cultural and congregational context.
• Engage a diverse spectrum of sources and scholars in the field of homiletics.
• Employ their ministry context as a unique homiletical learning environment

Transformational Preaching – Curricular Framework

The curriculum consists in two years of regular course work that culminates in the preparation of a final project and thesis in the candidate’s third and final year. 

Program Courses (6 credits)

• Power and Privilege: The Theology and Science of Change (3 credits)
• Research Methods Seminar(3 credits)

Core Courses (12 credits)

• Core 1: The Engaged Word: Critical Interpretation for Preaching (3 credits) 
• Core 2: The Embodied Word: Preaching and Embodied Performance (3 credits)
• Core 3: The Just Word: Preaching and Social Justice (3 credits)
• Core 4: The Empowered Word: Preaching as Social Transformation (3 credits)

Elective Courses (6 credits)

• Elective 1 (3 credits)
• Elective 2 (3 credits)

Ministry Project/Doctoral Thesis (6 credits)

• Project Proposal Workshop (0 credits)
• Doctoral Project Seminar (3 credits)
• Doctoral Thesis Seminar (3 credits)

Questions regarding any of our programs may be directed to our admissions team.