Upcoming Doctor of Ministry Courses

Ligonier Academy is pleased to announce the courses that will be offered in 2011 as part of our Doctor of Ministry program. For more information on this new program, please visit the Ligonier Academy Doctor of Ministry website.

The Winter 2011 D.Min. course schedule is:

• January 10-14: Missions and Evangelism - Dr. Steven J. Lawson
• January 17-21: Issues in Biblical Studies (The Epistle to the Hebrews with Special Reference to Its Use of the Old Testament) - Dr. D.A. Carson

All application documents must be received by the Admissions Office no later than September 1, 2010. The deadline for registration is September 15 for Winter courses.

Download the D.Min. application here.

Steven Lawson is a teaching fellow with Ligonier Ministries and is the Senior Pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, having served as a pastor in Arkansas and Alabama. He is also president of New Reformation, a ministry committed to biblical reformation in the church today. Dr. Lawson's ministry finds him speaking in church, seminary, and conference settings in the United States and through the world. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Reformed Theological Seminary (D. Min.). Dr. Lawson has authored several books, including Famine in the Land: A Passionate Call to Expository Preaching, Faith Under Fire, The Unwavering Resolve of Jonathan Edwards, The Expository Genius of John Calvin, Foundations of Grace 1400 BC-AD 100 (volume one of a five-volume series), and three titles in the Holman Old Testament Commentary Series (Job, Psalms Volume I [Psalms 1-75], and Volume II [Psalms 76-150]). He has contributed articles to Bibliotheca Sacra, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, The Faith and Mission, Decision Magazine, and Discipleship Magazine, among others.

D.A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, having served there since 1978. He is a graduate of McGill University (B. S.), Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto (M.Div.), and Cambridge University (Ph.D.). A member of several scholarly societies, Dr. Carson's areas of expertise include biblical theology, the historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Greek grammar, Johannine theology, Pauline theology, and questions of suffering and evil. Dr. Carson has written or edited more than fifty books, including Exegetical Fallacies (1984), Matthew (1984),Showing the Spirit (1987), The Gospel According to John (1991), A Call to Spiritual Reformation (1992), New Testament Commentary Survey (6th ed.; 2006) and Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church (2005). He co-authored An Introduction to the New Testament (1991) and edited such works as It Is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture (1988) and Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics (1993). His book, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (1996), won the 1997 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Gold Medallion Award in the category "theology and doctrine."