Bachelor of Divinity
The M.Div. curriculum for men over 30 without an undergraduate degree who sense a call to pastoral ministry.
Male applicants over 30 only
Curriculum Based on the curriculum of The Log College & Seminary.
About the program
The B.Div. program is available to men over 30 years of age who have not yet earned an undergraduate degree but perceive a call to pastoral ministry. The program is identical to the Master of Divinity program. The B.Div. is considered a terminal professional degree and does not grant academic standing in terms of future graduate study. The B.Div. program requires a high school diploma or GED for admission.
Admission
Men 30 years of age and older who do not have an undergraduate degree but perceive a call to the ministry; high school diploma or GED required; the B.Div. is considered a professional baccalaureate degree and is not to be equated with an academic baccalaureate degree; hence the B.Div. does not grant academic standing in terms of future graduate study.
Requirements
- Complete the Comprehensive Final Exam
- Students are encouraged to teach, preach, and lead worship whenever possible within the context of their local church under the supervision of its elders and the student’s academic mentor.
- All written assignments (with the exception of the thesis) should follow current MLA formatting.
- All numbered assignments (lecture outlines/notes, summaries, chapter summaries, papers, etc.) must be submitted to your mentor for grading.
- Please report any broken links to info@logcollege.net
- Complete the Comprehensive Final Exam. Contact the seminary to schedule a time for your exam.
Courses
LCS curriculum: 116 credits · School layer: 24 credits · Total: 140 credits
Added by the school: the original Westminster vision
The school copies the LCS curriculum in full and adds its own courses on the 1647 text of the Westminster Standards, read with the Scottish and continental Reformed tradition. These credits are added to the LCS credits; no LCS course is replaced. A layer course already completed in an earlier program is not repeated: its credits carry forward.
The original Westminster vision
18 creditsThe Scottish and continental Reformed tradition
6 creditsMore from the school's catalog (optional, not counted in the total)
OptionalThese courses add no credits to the program. Take any of them for your own study.
- BL101 Biblical Hebrew I-II 6 credits Self-study
- BL102 New Testament Greek I-II 6 credits Self-study
- BS551 Exegesis from the Original Texts: Method and the Reformed Exegetical Tradition 3 credits Self-study
- BS552 Old Testament Exegesis IV: The Prophets 4 credits Self-study
- BS553 New Testament Exegesis II: The Pauline Epistles 4 credits Self-study
- BS554 New Testament Exegesis III: Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation 3 credits Self-study
- ST502 Scripture and the Doctrine of God (Loci I) 4 credits Self-study
- ST503 Christ, Covenant and Salvation (Loci II) 4 credits Self-study
- ST504 The Church, Sacraments and Last Things (Loci III) 4 credits Self-study
- PT551 Homiletics: Preaching in the Scottish and Dutch Reformed Line 3 credits Self-study
- PT504 Reformed Missions: Voetius, the Scottish Missionary Movement and the Great Commission 3 credits Self-study
- WP501 Psalmody and the Reformed Psalter 3 credits Self-study
- WP502 Reformed Liturgy: Calvin, Knox and the Westminster Directory 3 credits Self-study
- WP503 Presbyterian and Consistorial Polity 3 credits Self-study
- SH508 Christ's Headship, the Two Kingdoms and Church and State in Scotland 3 credits Self-study
The LCS curriculum, copied in full
Courses
116 credits- PRE500 Preparatory Studies 1 credit Self-study Complete first
- TH531 Systematic Theology I 6 credits Self-study
- TH532 Systematic Theology II 6 credits Self-study After TH531
- TH533 Systematic Theology III 6 credits Self-study After TH532
- TH534 Covenant Theology 3 credits Self-study
- TH620 The Westminster Standards 3 credits Self-study
- BS500 Biblical Greek 6 credits Self-study
- BS501 Biblical Hebrew 6 credits Self-study
- BS502 Hermeneutics 3 credits Self-study
- BS531 Old Testament History and Theology 6 credits Self-study
- BS532 The Pentateuch 3 credits Self-study
- BS533 Old Testament Historical Books 3 credits Self-study
- BS534 Old Testament Wisdom Books 3 credits Self-study
- BS535 Old Testament Prophetic Books 3 credits Self-study
- BS541 New Testament History and Theology 6 credits Self-study
- BS542 Gospels and Acts 3 credits Self-study
- BS543 New Testament Epistles 3 credits Self-study
- BS544 Revelation 2 credits Self-study
- PT501 Homiletics 4 credits Self-study
- CH520 History of the Church 3 credits Self-study
- CH525 The Reformation 3 credits Self-study
- CH526 American Church History 2 credits Self-study
- CH527 Presbyterian Church History 2 credits Self-study
- TH625 Biblical Ethics 3 credits Self-study
- AP600 Apologetics 4 credits Self-study
- PH600 Survey of Philosophy and Worldview Studies 3 credits Self-study After AP600
- PT505 Evangelism and Missions 3 credits Self-study
- AP605 Survey of World Religions and Cults 3 credits Self-study
- TH630 Contemporary Theology 2 credits Self-study
- PT600 Pastoral Theology 6 credits Self-study
- BS690 Master's Thesis 6 credits Self-study
Total: 140 credits