Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary is in its second semester of offering fully-online courses in an online learning environment delivering Calvary's quality, regionally-accredited graduate education worldwide.

Online classes at Calvary offer students...

• Content taught within the framework of Calvary's distinctive, exegetically-based ministry perspective
• Fresh insights that will enrich your personal walk with Christ and refine your philosophy of ministry
• Online delivery of the video from each week's residential session
• The ability to access class content anywhere you can access a web browser
• The convenience of submitting all work electronically (no more printers!)
• Access to Calvary's library resources, including its online databases
• An e-mail-integrated classroom

Flexible video format

Calvary's online classes run in tandem with their residential counterparts, with weekly lectures made available to students in the online courses after they are delivered on campus. Lectures are delivered in a video podcast format viewable on computers or portable video devices.

Quality educational experience

Students interact with their professors and colleagues and enjoy borrowing privileges at the seminary's physical library and access to its online subscription databases (including full-text access to over 1,200 current periodicals and journals via OCLC and EBSCO). Online classes require the same level of rigor and depth required in the residential classroom.

Popular courses required for Calvary's M.Div. and M.A. degrees

Calvary's pilot online courses are TH501 Prolegomena and Bibliology and CH503 American Fundamentalism and Evanglicalism. Both courses fulfill core requirements in Calvary's M.Div., M.A.T.S., and M.A.C.M. degrees. Using a combination of online, video, and one-week on-site modular courses, students can complete either of Calvary's Master of Arts degrees without relocating to Lansdale.

A robust learning platform

Courses are hosted in the Sakai collaborate learning environment, a learning system developed and used by many of the world's largest universities, including schools such as Michigan State University, University of Cambridge, Indiana University, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and many others.

Affordable tuition

Calvary's tuition rate of $285 per credit is kept low by the enthusiastic giving of a network of supporters who believe in Calvary's mission and desire to make it available as widely as possible. Every dollar each student spends is matched by two dollars of giving by Calvary's generous sponsors. The $360 per-credit rate charged for online courses includes the standard tuition rate of $285 plus an additional online fee of $75. Courses are two credits each ($720 total per course, including tuition and fees).

Contact the seminary office today to apply or request more information:

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Course descriptions (Spring 2010)

TH510 Dispensationalism (Dr. George Coon, professor)

This course considers the system of interpretation known as dispensationalism. Several aspects are addressed: the historical development of the dispensational system; a dispensational interpretation of sacred history; the relationship of covenants to dispensations; the hermeneutics of dispensationalism as they relate to pretribulational and premillennial eschatology; the relationship of law and grace; and major events that unfold in particular dispensations. (2 credits)

NT520 New Testament Introduction (Dr. Al Huss, professor)

An investigation of the critical problems relating to the canon, the text, and the transmission of the New Testament. The student receives an introduction to the history and procedures of textual criticism as well as an overview of the so-called Synoptic problem with emphasis upon the conservative solution. Particular problems relevant to current studies of New Testament interpretation are also presented and evaluated including recent literary-critical methodologies. (2 credits)

PC625 Counseling Those with Disorders and Addictions (Dr. Sam Harbin, professor, and Mr. John Marsella, instructor)

This course equips pastoral counselors to help people with the more challenging counseling issues--problems which in contemporary culture may be described as "addictions" or "disorders." The course lays a theological and biological framework for understanding such issues and utilizes case study to illustrate a biblical counselor's approach to addressing these problems. Specific problems to be considered include substance addictions, sexual addictions, eating disorders, depression, and panic disorders. Consideration will also be given to spiritual warfare/demon possession as it relates to life-dominating problems.