Master Of Arts in Ministry

A graduate of United’s Master of Arts in Ministry degree program will be able to:

• interpret a selected biblical passage from multiple historical and contemporary perspectives and using one or more critical methods, demonstrating an understanding of the influence of their own situatedness on that interpretation;
• identify and pose distinctly theological questions in texts, artworks, and human existence;
• articulate the value of theological study in light of their own religious convictions;
• critically interpret, analyze, and reflect on a selected theological text or perspective in its historical context as well as through the lens of modern questions and challenges;
  apply to their vocational context or academic study an appropriate critical analysis of and reflection on a selected moral dilemma from a variety of Christian OR interreligious ethical perspectives;
• evaluate one’s spiritual development in light of one’s own “sources of the self” and religious horizons; 
• identify, transform, and/or create specific sources of spiritual power that resist human degradation and enhance human life;
• demonstrate a reflective awareness of how theological study and practical learning at seminary has shaped and empowered oneself as a religious leader;
• demonstrate effective graduate-level writing and argumentation skills; and
• demonstrate the capacity to intervene articulately and persuasively in one’s existing field of ministry / religious leadership in a way that a) responds to some real-world problem or question, and b) integrates the knowledge and skills cultivated in seminary.