ICAS-Accredited Degree Program
Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Wisdom
B.A. credential
Discover the story and wisdom of Scripture, and bring its message into your everyday Christian life.
Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Wisdom: Your Grant Price
Applications are free. Eligible applicants receive their admission and Grant decision before any one-time program fee is requested.
Published tuition
$9,900.00
$569.00 Registry & Assessment Fee
$69
Bachelor's Degree
2026 Life in Christ Grant is active
Ministry Experience, Evaluated Against Academic Standards.
Documented prior learning may be considered when it aligns with program outcomes; every credit decision follows academic review.
Program Overview
About this program
The B.A. in Biblical Wisdom is for people who have read the Bible for years and want to read it properly. The point of this ICAS-accredited program is that you stop needing someone else to tell you what a passage means. At Kingdom of Life University you work through the whole Bible — law, narrative, psalm, prophet, gospel, letter, apocalypse — until the shape of the thing is familiar and an unfamiliar chapter no longer causes panic.
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Recognition of demonstrated learning in theology and ministry
Experienced ministry practitioners demonstrate competencies developed through years of service, theological study, and continuing learning. The assessment connects that learning with the published outcomes of the Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Wisdom through biblical understanding, theological reflection, research, and ministry judgment.
70
Audited questions in this pathway bank
30
Questions drawn for each sitting
60 minutes
Time available for the knowledge component
24 hours
Interval before reassessment
Theological knowledge and degree outcomes
- Published bank title
- Biblical Wisdom - Bachelor Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
- Credential
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Biblical Wisdom
- Question construction
- 14 pathway subject-bank sources contribute 5 questions each, producing the complete 70-question bank.
How completion is reported
- The knowledge component contributes 40% and assessed ministry experience contributes 60% to one weighted result.
- The reported result is no lower than 80%, matching the 80% degree pass mark.
- Reassessment draws a fresh question set and is included in program access, with no additional fee or limit on sittings.
- The integrated assessment covers the published degree plan; separate course assessments, a capstone paper, and a dissertation defense are not required.
Program Objectives
What you will achieve
Build biblical and theological foundations for faithful Christian life, witness, and service
Read any biblical book with an informed sense of its genre, setting, and place in the canon
Trace the redemptive storyline of Scripture across both Testaments without collapsing their differences
Weigh competing interpretations of a disputed passage and give reasons for the reading you adopt
Teach biblical wisdom to a congregation in language that is accurate, plain, and useful
Learning Outcomes
Skills and competencies you will develop
Interpret Scripture responsibly and apply Christian theology with wisdom in church and community contexts
Produce an exegetical treatment of a passage that accounts for its literary form and historical setting
Explain how a given book contributes to the theology of the canon as a whole
Identify where an interpretation rests on evidence and where it rests on assumption
Design teaching material that moves from a text's own claims to its bearing on Christian life
Career Opportunities
Where this degree can take you
Bible teacher
Pastoral ministry leader
Biblical studies researcher
Curriculum writer
Major Subject Areas
The fourteen subjects you study, and the ones the ministry assessment draws on
Foundational and Major-Core Subjects
Four foundations every pathway shares, then four that belong to this field.
Biblical Interpretation
Where the whole program starts: what you are actually doing when you read a chapter, and why two honest readers reach different conclusions. Genre, context, canon, and the reader's own assumptions.
Old Testament Theology
The Old Testament as a whole rather than as a quarry for sermon illustrations — covenant, land, kingship, exile, and the long argument Israel has with God about all four.
New Testament Theology
The New Testament's witness to Jesus across four gospels, a history, twenty-one letters and a vision, and what it means that the church kept all of them rather than harmonising them into one.
Christian Doctrine
The doctrines that a reader brings to the text whether or not they admit it. Trinity, creation, sin, Christ, salvation, church, and last things, set out so you know what you are assuming.
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Context
The world behind the Hebrew Scriptures: Canaanite and Mesopotamian neighbours, covenant treaty forms, agrarian and exilic life, and the difference that setting makes to what a text meant when it was written.
Gospels and the Historical Jesus
The Synoptic and Johannine portraits of Jesus read alongside the sources, criteria, and disputes of historical study, asking how the church's confession and the historian's questions bear on each other.
Pauline Literature
Romans through Philemon read as occasional letters: the congregations that prompted them, Paul's argumentative habits, and the theology of grace, union with Christ, and the body that emerges from them.
Biblical Hermeneutics
The interpretive step itself. Genre, context, canon, and the reader's own location, worked through on passages where a careless reading and a careful one reach opposite conclusions.
Specialization Subjects
Six more that take the field into the places it actually gets used.
Pentateuch Studies
Genesis through Deuteronomy as a single narrative of creation, promise, exodus, and law, with attention to the composition questions the text raises and the covenant theology it establishes.
Prophets and Wisdom Literature
The prophetic books and the wisdom writings together: indictment, lament, and promise on one side, proverb, protest, and reflection on the other, and why the canon needs both voices.
Johannine Literature
The Fourth Gospel, the Johannine letters, and Revelation as a family of texts, marked by a shared vocabulary of light, witness, abiding, and life, and by a distinctive account of who Jesus is.
Biblical Theology
Whole-Bible theology as a discipline: tracing covenant, kingdom, temple, and exile across both Testaments without flattening the particular voice of any single book.
Spiritual Formation and Christian Vocation
Reading the Bible devotionally after a degree spent reading it critically, and the vocational question of what a person who can now handle Scripture is supposed to do with that.
Integrative Theology and Ministry
A substantial passage or theme carried the whole way: exegesis, theological synthesis, and a written account that would satisfy a scholar and still preach.
Admission Requirements
What you need to apply
- High school diploma or recognized equivalent from an accredited or approved institution
- Official secondary-school and any prior college transcripts
- Demonstrated readiness for college-level reading, writing, and theological study
- English-language proficiency documentation when prior education was not completed in English
Degree Completion Requirements
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts
Graduation Requirements
- Complete at least 120 semester credits in the approved degree plan
- Pass the Competency-Based Ministry Assessment for the degree
- Satisfy every general-education, theological-foundation, major-core, specialization, and elective requirement group
- Integrate theological knowledge with assessed ministry experience under the published result-weighting policy
- Recognize demonstrated learning against every published degree-plan requirement
Culminating Experience
Demonstrate integrated biblical, theological, and ministry competence through Competency-Based Ministry Assessment, combining theological knowledge with assessed ministry experience.
Credit Distribution
| Requirement Area | Credits | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| General Education | 30 | 10 courses. University-wide preparation in written and oral communication, quantitative reasoning, natural and social science, humanities, and information literacy. |
| School Foundation | 18 | 6 courses. Shared disciplinary foundation for every program in the School of Theology and Ministry. |
| Major Core | 32 | 8 courses. Required disciplinary foundations and professional competencies of the major. |
| Major Specialization | 16 | 4 courses. Focused study aligned with the learner's academic and career goals. |
| Open Electives | 16 | 4 courses. Any bachelor-level major course from any school that is not already part of this degree plan. |
| Competency-Based Ministry Assessment | 8 | 1 course. Integrated theological knowledge and assessed ministry experience, recognizing demonstrated learning across the published degree plan. |
| Total Degree Credits | 120 | All requirements must be completed within the approved degree plan. |
Program Details
Program Length
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Learning
Total Credits
120 credit hours
Up to 90 Transfer Credits
Published Degree Plan
33 courses
Across 6 required curriculum groups
Format
Flexible Study
Assessment Format
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Selected Degree
Bachelor
School
School of Theology and Ministry
Institutional Status
ICAS Accredited
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