ICAS-Accredited Degree Program
Master of Arts in Christian Philosophy
M.A. credential
Ask the big questions about God, truth, meaning, and how to live, guided by the Christian tradition of thoughtful inquiry.
Master of Arts in Christian Philosophy: Your Grant Price
Applications are free. Eligible applicants receive their admission and Grant decision before any one-time program fee is requested.
Published tuition
$14,900.00
$599.00 Registry & Assessment Fee
$99
Master'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 M.A. in Christian Philosophy works in the epistemology and metaphysics that decide most theological disputes further downstream. Philosophy is where Christian claims get examined by people who are not assuming them. Kingdom of Life University's ICAS-accredited program covers the arguments for God, the epistemology of religious belief, the metaphysics that creation and incarnation require, and the analytic tools now being turned on doctrines that had not been reconsidered in centuries.
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 Master of Arts in Christian Philosophy 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
- Christian Philosophy - Master Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
- Credential
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Christian Philosophy
- 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 study, spiritual maturity, and ministry wisdom for Christian leadership
Reconstruct a philosophical argument accurately before evaluating it
Assess whether Christian belief requires argument in order to be rational
Apply metaphysical analysis to a doctrinal claim without distorting it
Recognise the philosophical commitments embedded in an apparently theological dispute
Learning Outcomes
Skills and competencies you will develop
Synthesize advanced biblical and theological evidence for clear teaching, leadership, and ministry judgment
Set out an argument for or against theism in valid form and identify its weakest premise
Defend a position in religious epistemology against its principal objection
Analyse a doctrine using the tools of analytic philosophy
Explain how a philosophical account of mind bears on Christian hope for the body
Career Opportunities
Where this degree can take you
Philosophy instructor
Apologetics minister
Christian writer
Campus ministry leader
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.
Advanced Biblical Interpretation
What it means for a text to be revelation, and the philosophical questions that arise the moment someone claims a book carries divine authority.
Advanced Old Testament Theology
Creation, providence, divine action and divine foreknowledge as the Old Testament presents them, and the conceptual problems each has generated.
Advanced New Testament Theology
Incarnation, resurrection and the New Testament's claims about a God who acts in history, examined for coherence as well as for warrant.
Advanced Christian Doctrine
The doctrines as a philosopher meets them: the Trinity's logic, the atonement's mechanism, and the conceptual work each formulation is doing.
Advanced Classical Arguments for God
The cosmological, teleological, ontological, and moral arguments set out formally, with the standard rebuttals and the question of what a successful natural theology would even establish.
Advanced Epistemology and Religious Belief
Whether religious belief can be rational without argument: evidentialism, Reformed epistemology, warrant, and the epistemic force of religious experience and testimony.
Advanced Metaphysics and Creation
Being, causation, time, and contingency as they bear on creation out of nothing, divine action, and the coherence of a God who is both necessary and personal.
Advanced Philosophy of Mind and the Soul
Dualism, physicalism, and emergence examined against Christian claims about the soul, personal identity through death, and the resurrection of the body.
Specialization Subjects
Six more that take the field into the places it actually gets used.
Advanced Moral Philosophy and Divine Command
Moral realism, natural law, and divine command theory, including the Euthyphro problem and the modified accounts developed to answer it.
Advanced Religious Language
How talk about God can mean anything: analogy, metaphor, apophatic speech, and the verificationist challenge that once seemed to end the discussion.
Advanced Faith and Reason in History
Athens and Jerusalem over two millennia, from the Apologists through Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, to the collapse and revival of philosophical theology.
Advanced Contemporary Analytic Theology
Analytic philosophy applied to doctrine: the Trinity, incarnation, atonement, and providence treated with the tools of contemporary logic and metaphysics.
Advanced Spiritual Formation and Christian Vocation
Faith that has been analysed and still has to be lived, and the vocation of a believer trained to see the weakness in their own position.
Advanced Integrative Theology and Ministry
One philosophical problem in Christian belief taken to a written argument that engages the current literature and defends a conclusion.
Admission Requirements
What you need to apply
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited or recognized institution
- Official transcripts showing preparation appropriate to graduate theological study
- Statement of theological, academic, and ministry goals
- Current resume or curriculum vitae
- Two ministry, professional, or academic recommendations
Degree Completion Requirements
Requirements for the Master of Arts
Graduation Requirements
- Complete at least 36 graduate semester credits in the approved degree plan
- Pass the Competency-Based Ministry Assessment for the degree
- Satisfy every graduate-core, specialization, elective, and comprehensive 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 graduate theological understanding and ministry judgment through Competency-Based Ministry Assessment, recognizing advanced learning developed through prior study and service.
Credit Distribution
| Requirement Area | Credits | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Graduate Core | 21 | 7 courses. Required advanced theory, methods, and professional competencies of the discipline. |
| Graduate Specialization | 9 | 3 courses. Focused graduate study in an approved concentration or practice area. |
| Graduate Elective | 3 | 1 course. Any master-level major course from any school that is not already part of this degree plan. |
| Competency-Based Ministry Assessment | 3 | 1 course. Integrated graduate theological knowledge and assessed ministry experience, recognizing demonstrated learning across the published degree plan. |
| Total Degree Credits | 36 | All requirements must be completed within the approved degree plan. |
Program Details
Program Length
Self-Paced
Self-Paced Learning
Total Credits
36 credit hours
Up to 18 Transfer Credits
Published Degree Plan
12 courses
Across 4 required curriculum groups
Format
Flexible Study
Assessment Format
Competency-Based Ministry Assessment
Selected Degree
Master
School
School of Theology and Ministry
Institutional Status
ICAS Accredited
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