Counseling Apologetics Certificate - Level III

The Counseling Apologetics Certificate offers courses that will challenge your personal life, sharpen your counseling, and prepare you to make a credible defense for biblical counseling to believers and unbelievers. A Level III Certificate will be awarded to all students who have both successfully completed ALL of these courses and also earned a Level I Certificate.

The four courses for the Level III certificate are described below. For tuition, see Academic Policies.

  1. Human Personality

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    This course will deepen students' understanding of biblical doctrine as it applies to the person and will examine what doctrines are especially important to apply in this generation. Students will learn to apply biblical doctrine in personal ministry.

    The topics include a review of systematic theological categories with a commitment to developing multiple applications, an examination of both Christian and non-Christian counseling case studies with an eye to enrich them with our theological work, and the practical application of a biblical-theological approach to the study of people.

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  2. Theology and Secular Psychology

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    This course teaches students how to understand psychologists' observations, theories, and practices, and how to engage them critically, humbly, and lovingly. Students are taught to reinterpret through a redemptive gaze the things psychologists see most clearly and care about most deeply. The class will seek to understand where biblical counseling fits in our cultural context, both within the evangelical church and within the surrounding mental health system.

    Topics covered include the skills of reinterpretation and redemptive interaction, historical overview of the biblical counseling and the evangelical psychotherapy movements, the lay of the land in contemporary counseling; assessment of motivation theories and self-esteem theory; and primary source readings from a half dozen representative psychologists, ranging from high culture to self-help.

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  3. Counseling and Physiology

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    This course discusses the relationship between physical events and behavior, emotions, perception and thought processes. It Includes an orientation to the effects of licit and illicit drugs, neurological disorders, psychosomatic medicine, and other current medical research.

    Topics covered in this course include biblical anthropology and its counseling implications on neuropsychological, psychopharmacology, dementia, traumatic brain injury, psychiatry, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks and hallucinations, attention deficit disorder, addiction, homosexuality, and autism.

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  4. Biblical Interpretation

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    This course enables students to understand the hermeneutical process and its relationship to the theory and practice of biblical counseling. Students will learn to apply Scripture in those ministry contexts that call for conversational, interpersonal, interactive, and improvisational skills.

    Topics covered in this course include the relationship of exegesis to practical theology; the questions that conversation raises for hermeneutical theory; the relationship between preaching and counseling; the use (and abuse) of different genres of Scripture in the personal ministry forms of curing and caring for souls.

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