Master of Divinity

Overview

The CBTE Master of Divinity is a four-year program in which you complete your degree in the context for which you are training to serve. Mentors, instructional seminars, and learning experiences guide you in developing the knowledge, skills, and character competencies essential for shaping you to become the kind of servant, disciple, leader, teacher, and manager who can competently lead at a director, associate pastoral, board, and/or senior pastoral level in a local church.

Program Type & Languages

27 Outcomes
83 Credit Hours
4-Year Completion Date

> Based on the principles of competency-based theological education

> Self-paced learning completed in your ministry context

> Teaching, reading, assignments, and mentoring directly related to your ministry position

> Directed by a mentor team

EN | FR | SP |

The CBTE Master of Divinity is available in English, French, and Spanish.

Holistically equipping you for effective ministry in the context in which you serve.

Requirements

Employment in your ministry context
Endorsement from your ministry leadership team
Approval from your network/denomination leadership
One of the following
- An undergraduate degree from an accredited institution with at least a 2.50 GPA OR
- Age 28 with at least 60 credits of undergraduate studies (min 2.50 GPA) showing, upon review by Admissions and/or the Northwest Dean’s Office, achievement of the knowledge, character, and skill competencies needed to enter and excel in a graduate-level CBTE program at Northwest OR
- Age 28 or older (or to the discretion of the Academic Dean) with life and/or ministry experience showing, upon review by Admissions and/or the Northwest Dean’s Office, achievement of the knowledge, character, and skill competencies needed to enter and excel in a graduate-level CBTE program at Northwest.

Application Requirements

Inquiry

Interested applicants employed or connected with one of our partner networks must contact their network lead. Those unconnected to a partner organization are asked to contact Northwest.

Assessment

Each partner network operates their own assessment in consultation with Northwest on academic requirements.

Application

Those who successfully complete the assessment process are invited to apply to the CBTE Master of Divinity degree and start orientation.

Sample Outcomes

*Outcomes are customized with each partner, the outcomes below represent one standard version*

Program Objectives

Purpose: To develop biblically grounded pastor-theologians who are attentive, strategic and proactive in cultivating and leading multiplying disciplemaking communities characterized by the worship of God, the proclamation of the gospel in word and deed, and holistic care for people and the world created by God for us to steward

Program Learning Objectives

CURIOUS THEOLOGIAN: Engage scripture and theological traditions to find and share the resources needed to navigate the Christian life and ministry in a complex world
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATOR: Employ teaching, learning design, and media to help individuals and groups minister effectively and grow in their commitment to follow Jesus.
COMMUNITY BUILDER: Cultivate communities characterized by the worship of God, the proclamation of the gospel in word and deed, care for people and creation, and the multiplication of Jesus' disciples.
ATTENTIVE LEADER: Lead individuals and groups to listen to God, receive and share vision for ministry, develop strategies to implement and bring that vision to reality in committed, adaptive ways.
INTERCULTURAL CONNECTOR: Be attentive to the worldviews of communities in your ministry context as you build cross cultural relational bridges and communicate contextually sensitive expressions of the gospel that result in people becoming disciples of Jesus
FAITHFUL PASTOR: Pursue restoration, wholeness and spiritual maturity in yourself and others as you follow Jesus and develop caring and responsible servant- leaders.

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