Doctoral Degrees
Doctor of Ministry in Congregational Development
Seabury offers the degree of Doctor of Ministry in Congregational Development through the Seabury Institute. For more information on the Institute and its programs, click here.
Doctor of Ministry in Preaching
The D.Min. in Preaching is a joint program of six seminaries in the Association of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS): Chicago Theological Seminary, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, North Park Theological Seminary, and Seabury-Western. The program involves a three-week residency each summer for three years and independent parish projects conducted after each residency. The culminating project is a thesis of publishable quality. During each residency students will take a required core course and an elective course relevant to the student's learning goals, as well as participate in a colloquy. The colloquy serves to develop learning goals, determine electives, design the parish course and thesis, and examine students' preaching.
Between September and March, after the first two residencies, students design and conduct the Preaching Ministry Project. In this independent project, designed in collaboration with an advisor and a group from the parish, students explore an assumption or idea about preaching through a rotation of four videotaped sermons, which are evaluated by advisors, faculty, and parishioners. After the third residency, students research and conduct a final extended project and produce a publishable article.
Courses are taught by faculty from the ACTS schools and renowned teachers and preachers from across the country.
Each residency also includes the presence of a nationally known keynote speaker. Particular strengths of the program are the inter-seminary, interdisciplinary faculty; peer interaction during residency; and faculty/student collaboration between residencies.
Admission to the program is through the regular Seabury-Western admission process. The application deadline is January 25 of the year the student wishes to enter. Enrollment is limited each year to a total class size of 30 students.
For more information, contact: ACTS D.Min. In Preaching Office, 5555 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, (773) 947-6270 and see the ACTS D.Min. in Preaching webpage.
Posted at April 1, 2005 01:54 PM
