ICAS-Accredited Degree Program
Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Evangelism
Ph.D. credential
Share Christian faith through digital stories, media, and online communities that connect with people wherever they are.
Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Evangelism: Your Grant Price
Applications are free. Eligible applicants receive their admission and Grant decision before any one-time program fee is requested.
Published tuition
$24,900.00
$649.00 Registry & Assessment Fee
$149
Doctoral 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
Doctoral study in Digital Evangelism is for those directing communications and researching digital formation. Platforms are designed to capture attention, and a ministry using them inherits that design whether or not it agrees with it. This ICAS-accredited Kingdom of Life University program covers a theology of communication, how digital environments form people, communications strategy with actual measures, writing and editing, audio and video storytelling, and the techniques that work but should not be used.
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 Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Evangelism 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
- Digital Evangelism - Doctoral Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
- Credential
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Digital Evangelism
- 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
Integrate advanced theological inquiry and ministry judgment in service to the church and its mission
Ground digital practice in a theology of communication rather than in platform norms
Plan communications with a stated audience, message, and measure
Care pastorally online while recognising what requires presence
Refuse engagement techniques that are effective but manipulative
Learning Outcomes
Skills and competencies you will develop
Synthesize doctoral-level theological evidence, research judgment, and ministry wisdom for faithful leadership
Produce a communications strategy with audience, channels, and measures
Write and edit ministry copy to a brief and a word limit
Produce a short video or audio story with consent handled properly
Evaluate a digital practice against explicit ethical criteria
Career Opportunities
Where this degree can take you
Church communications director
Digital ministry leader
Christian content producer
Ministry marketing lead
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.
Doctoral Seminar: Biblical Interpretation
Presenting Scripture in formats that fragment it, and the interpretive cost of a verse that arrives with no context around it.
Doctoral Seminar: Old Testament Theology
The Old Testament's long-form narrative, which resists every habit a short-form platform trains, and what that resistance is worth.
Doctoral Seminar: New Testament Theology
The New Testament's letters as media — written, carried, read aloud to an assembly — and what changes when the reader is alone.
Doctoral Seminar: Christian Doctrine
Doctrine communicated in a medium that rewards certainty and outrage, and the distortions that produces in what gets said.
Doctoral Seminar: Theology of Communication
Communication as a theological category, covering word, incarnation, and mediation, and what they imply about speaking the gospel through any medium.
Doctoral Seminar: Digital Culture and Formation
How digital environments form people, covering attention, comparison, identity performance, and the effects that platform design produces by intention.
Doctoral Seminar: Church Communications Strategy
Communications strategy for a congregation, covering audience, message discipline, channel choice, calendar, and the measurement of whether any of it works.
Doctoral Seminar: Writing and Editing for Ministry
Writing and editing for ministry, covering structure, plain language, editing to length, and the house style that makes an organisation legible.
Specialization Subjects
Six more that take the field into the places it actually gets used.
Doctoral Seminar: Audio and Video Storytelling
Telling stories in audio and video, covering interview technique, structure, editing, consent, and the ethics of using people's accounts.
Doctoral Seminar: Digital Community and Pastoral Care
Pastoral care and community online, covering what genuinely transfers to a screen, what does not, and the limits of digital accompaniment.
Doctoral Seminar: Digital Evangelism
Evangelism in digital settings, covering search behaviour, content that answers real questions, conversation at scale, and the handover to a person.
Doctoral Seminar: Ethics, Privacy, and Attention
Ethics of attention, covering privacy, data, manipulation, engagement metrics, and the refusal of techniques that work but should not be used.
Doctoral Seminar: Spiritual Formation and Christian Vocation
The spiritual formation of someone whose work is attention, and the discipline of a life not lived on the platform.
Doctoral Seminar: Integrative Theology and Ministry
A communications project with audience, message, channels and measures, produced and evaluated against them.
Admission Requirements
What you need to apply
- Master's degree in theology, ministry, or a relevant field from an accredited or recognized institution
- Official graduate transcripts demonstrating advanced academic preparation
- Research statement identifying a proposed area of theological or ministry inquiry
- Scholarly or ministry-focused writing sample
- Current curriculum vitae documenting relevant research, church, or ministry leadership experience
- Three ministry or academic recommendations and a faculty interview
Degree Completion Requirements
Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy
Graduation Requirements
- Complete at least 60 doctoral semester credits in the approved degree plan
- Pass the Competency-Based Ministry Assessment for the degree
- Satisfy every doctoral-core, research-methods, specialization, elective, and Competency-Based Ministry Assessment 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 doctoral-level theological synthesis, research judgment, and ministry leadership through Competency-Based Ministry Assessment, combining theological knowledge with assessed ministry experience.
Credit Distribution
| Requirement Area | Credits | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Doctoral Core | 24 | 8 courses. Doctoral theory, disciplinary foundations, and scholarly leadership. |
| Research Design and Methods | 12 | 4 courses. University-wide doctoral preparation in quantitative, qualitative, measurement, and research-ethics competencies. |
| Area of Specialization | 15 | 5 courses. Focused doctoral inquiry supporting the learner's research agenda. |
| Doctoral Elective | 6 | 2 courses. Any doctoral-level major course from any school that is not already part of this degree plan. |
| Competency-Based Ministry Assessment | 3 | 1 course. Integrated doctoral theological knowledge and assessed ministry experience, recognizing demonstrated learning across the published degree plan. |
| Total Degree Credits | 60 | All requirements must be completed within the approved degree plan. |
Program Details
Program Length
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Learning
Total Credits
60 credit hours
Up to 30 Transfer Credits
Published Degree Plan
20 courses
Across 5 required curriculum groups
Format
Flexible Study
Assessment Format
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Selected Degree
Doctorate
School
School of Theology and Ministry
Institutional Status
ICAS Accredited
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