2024-2025 Catalog

 

Specialization in Worship Arts

The Worship Arts specialization prepares students to integrate a holistic theology of worship with effective ministry practice, and develop a participatory worship culture for the students' ministry context. The Worship Arts specialization may be taken with the Master of Arts in Ministry or the Master of Divinity degree program.

Students must take the (2) required Worship Arts specialization courses, and then may take any (2) of the listed electives to fulfill the 12-hour specialization.

In addition to the program learning outcomes, students with a specialization in Worship Arts should, with graduate-level competency, be able to:

  • Integrate a holistic theology of worship with effective ministry practice.
  • Develop a participatory worship culture for the students' ministry context.

Specialization in Worship Arts

Must take CHST-621 and WSHP-621, and then may take any two of the electives listed.

Required

CHST-621The Story of Christian Worship

3

WSHP-621Christian Worship

3

Worship Arts Electives

Must take 6 hours.
BIBL-610Torah Engagement: The Formation of Worship

3

CHST-525Spiritual Traditions

3

SPIR-530Spiritual Practices

3

THEO-520Christmas: the Mystery of the Incarnation

3

THEO-525Theology of Prayer

3

THEO-530Easter: The Resurrection of the Crucified

3

THEO-545Holiness and Christian Ethics

3

THEO-546Popular Culture and Christian Imagination

3

THEO-610Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley

3

WSHP-520Space and Time in Worship

3

WSHP-540Music and Arts in Worship

3

WSHP-560Media and Technology in Worship

3

WSHP-580Emerging Trends in Worship

3

 

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