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....before they get rid of the ThDs if they have to downsize?
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1/17/17 3:32 am
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| Re: Do seminaries cast out D.Mins... |
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| Link wrote: | | ....before they get rid of the ThDs if they have to downsize? |
The DMins is always the first to go... |
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1/17/17 4:00 am
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A Doctor of Ministry is the terminal degree for pastors and even parachurch leaders. It is meant for ministry practitioners and has much of its classwork focused on leadership.
The PhD and ThD are designed for research and academic settings. I would prefer a DMin in the local church for sure. In the academic setting, I have to admit that most of my doctoral level professors were PhD's and ThD's, but I preferred the D.Mins. They had real world experience and the academic guys had their "experience" usually from books only. Of course, this is anecdotal, but the D.Min's were my favorite professors. They taught orthopraxy and orthodoxy, where the PhD's and ThD's could only offer orthodoxy.
One of my colleagues in my D.Min program was told by a PhD professor that he needed to read certain theologians from the 1800's to help him write about local church issues in the 2000's. The things he suggested he read were so disconnected from the 21st Century that it was laughable. A D.Min would never have suggested those readings for the issue my friend was writing about. JMHO |
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