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Fall Semester 2025
Our 2025 Fall Semester Began Monday, August 25
Get a glimpse of what your semester could look like! Explore course highlights, preview classes, and take the first step toward enrollment.
Follow the links below to explore class schedules or let us connect you with a professor for more information and course-related resources.
Biblical Counseling Process
Dr. Nicolas Ellen
This course provides a biblical-theological grid whereby students are able to cultivate and implement a system for biblical counseling. Students will develop the skills of observation, interpretation and application in the practice of biblical counseling.
Prerequisite: Foundations of Biblical Counseling
Senior Seminar
Dr. Brett Williams
A course to enable the student to write his personal doctrinal statement with a view to preparing the student for the oral doctrinal defense (and ordination). Normally taken in the student’s final year, the class will meet one hour each week throughout the fall semester.
Prerequisite: Systematic Theology I-IV.
Read More about the Senior Doctrinal Defense
Kingdom of God
Dr. Roy Beacham
A study of the Kingdom of God beginning with the mediatorial idea, and continuing with the establishment of the Kingdom at Sinai, its monarchial form, the Kingdom according to the prophets, its offer by Jesus to Israel, its rejection, and its eschatological establishment.
Listen to Dr. Roy Beacham & Dr. Jeff Brown on The Central Seminary Podcast – Understanding the Kingdom of God, Part 1 & Part 2
Preaching Poems, Proverbs, and Parables
Dr. Bryan Augsburger
This course develops understanding and skill in the exegesis and exposition of the Bible’s most imaginative literature: poetic and wisdom literature in the Old Testament, and parabolic literature in the New Testament.
Key Dates & Events
Fall Semester
Friday, August 22 New Student Orientation
Monday, August 25 First Day of Classes
Tuesday, Oct 14 Fall Conference with Dr. Kevin Bauder
Nov 10–14 Modular I Courses
Nov 12–14 Fall ThM Seminar Meets
Nov 17–21 Modular II Courses
Nov 18–21 Fall DMin Seminars Meet
Nov 26–28 Thanksgiving Break – No classes
Friday, Dec 12 Last Day of Classes
Dec 15–19 Finals Week
Check out the full class schedule for Fall 2025
Evening classes accommodate students with daytime employment. We are excited to see these growing in enrollment.
Complete the core classes of the M.A.B.C. this way.
Weekend courses meet on four weekends through the semester on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Courses begin in January, May, and September.
Central offers one-week module courses four times a year: January, March/April, June, and November.
Our Th.M. & D.Min. Seminars utilize this format to allow pastors to join without missing a Sunday.
Our morning classes focus on the original languages with Hebrew & Greek Grammar and Exegesis for M.Div. students.
Each of the Systematic Theology courses alternate between morning and evening offerings.
Looking to start a class?
Visit our Catalogs & Schedules page to get an idea of how your classes could fit into your work and ministry obligations. Look ahead to the Spring 2026 Class Schedule. Registration for Spring Courses opens on November 7, 2025.
Fully Accredited, Distance Education
Central Seminary has designed a distance education program that is different from most. It puts the distance student in the classroom during the class. Through multiple high definition cameras and monitors, advanced sound equipment, and the best conference software available, distance students will be able to interact live with each class.
Central Seminary’s distance education program is not a separate program – it’s only a medium. None of our academic programs have been lessened and every requirement is the same. The only difference between resident students and distance students is just that…distance. All of our programs are offered in their entirety through this medium.
- Learn theology from theologians.
- Learn history from historians.
- Learn Greek and Hebrew from people that know them.
- Learn ministry from pastors, not programs.
- Be a student, not a consumer.
What about library resources?
Both resident and distance education students have access to an online library of over 1.4 million volumes, including electronic databases such as EBSCO. Borrow eBooks and journal articles to supplement your research.
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