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MASTER OF ARTS (CHRISTIANITY and CULTURE)

The Master of Arts (Christianity and Culture) is an academic degree program designed for persons who intend to be teachers or headmasters in Christian schools, to pursue further graduate theological studies, or to become conversant on the dialogue between the Bible and the “Great Tradition” of literature. The coursework provides a solid foundation in two areas: the Bible and selected great texts of the classical Christian (Western) tradition.


ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or the educational equivalent is required.


ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION

The Master of Arts (Christianity and Culture) program requires completion of a total of 48 credit hours and a comprehensive examination. To graduate, a student must earn at least a grade of C- (1.7) in each course, and must have a cumulative grade point average of at east 2.5 (on a 4.0 scale).


Upon successful completion, the student is awarded the Master of Arts (Christianity and Culture) degree.


Note: This schedule is a proposed sequence of study. Some students may require more than one year to complete this program.


LEARNING OUTCOMES

A graduate of the MACC program will:

• Have the ability to think theologically and philosophically by engaging the best literature of the classical and Christian heritage.

• Expand cultural imagination and foster appreciation and understanding of diverse cultural contexts.

• Display a Christ–like character that reflects personal and spiritual maturity and evangelistic competence.

• Have the ability to understand the nature of public leadership and the role of rhetoric in achieving goals in the public forum.


PROGRAM SEQUENCE

Total Semester Hours: 48

 

SUMMER 1 3 Hours / Credits:

  • CC500 Homer and Vergil3

FALL 1 9 Hours / Credits:

  • CC502 Plato and Augustine3
  • NT502 New Testament 1 - Gospel and Acts3
  • OT602 Old Testament 1 — Genesis to 2 Samuel3

SPRING 1 12 Hours / Credits:

  • CC504 Aeschylus and Aristotle3
  • NT504 New Testament 2 — Epistles and Revelation3
  • OT604 Old Testament 2 — 2 Samuel to Malachi3
  • Elective3

SUMMER 2 3 Hours / Credits:

  • CC602 Aquinas and Machiavelli3

FALL 2 12 Hours / Credits:

  • CC604 Dante and Milton3
  • CC702 Thucydides and Tocqueville3
  • ST502 Biblical Theology3
  • Elective3

SPRING 2 9 Hours / Credits:

  • CC704 Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky3
  • CC706 Eliot and Barth3
  • NT712 Biblical Hermeneutics3

Works Read in the Christianity and Culture Program
  • The Holy Bible
  • Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days
  • Homer The Iliad (selections)
  • Plato The Republic, Apology of Socrates, Symposium, Phaedo
  • Thucydides Peloponnesian War
  • Augustine City of God (selections), Confessions
  • Aristophanes Clouds, Frogs, Peace, Birds
  • Aeschylus Prometheus, The Oresteia
  • Sophocles Oedipus the King
  • Euripides The Bacchae, Hippolytus
  • Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics
  • Clairveaux On the Necessity of Loving God
  • Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Aquinas Summa Theologica (selections)
  • Machiavelli Mandragola, The Prince
  • Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece, Henry V, King Lear
  • Shakespeare The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice
  • Luther The Freedom of the Christian
  • Dante The Divine Comedy
  • Hobbes The Leviathan
  • Milton Paradise Lost
  • Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Madison, Hamilton, Jay The Federalist Papers
  • Tocqueville Democracy in America
  • Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
  • Lincoln Speeches
  • Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols
  • Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov