Shaun & Stefan Response
Hey gang:
I went into the web a little deeper and found a "Demo" course in Spiritual Formations. I was not impressed!!!
I have no idea as to why we are letting the MDiv degree be "dumbed down" so? That course does not look like any I have taken at Memphis Theological Seminary, Harding Grad School of Religion, Southern Seminary, or/and especially Mid America. I have Diploma of Theology (now the ADiv) that would come up to the academic rigor of this particular course.
What gives?
There are supposed to be fewer and fewer young men who want to go into the "preaching" or "pulpit" ministry I am hearing. More are wanting to do "ministry related" ministries like para-church, educational ministry, church planting, et al. If this is the case, then there may be a "dumbing down" of the MDiv degrees.
I wast just up at Southern this very week at the Centennial Library. And I met a PhD student, an MDiv student, and I am around MABTS' students consistently. And I know, from where I am and what I see, that the SBC programs that are MDiv continue to be very rigorous indeed. How those two would integrate I know not?
My two cents worth!:thumbs:
"That is all!"