Mission India Theological Seminary
Equipping leaders to effectively engage their culture with ministry skills, Christlike character, and a biblically informed worldview in order to make disciples around the world.
About Our Online MA Degree
The MA in Missiology of Movements equips students in the majority world to effectively engage their culture with the movement skills and Christ-like character necessary to catalyze movements of disciples around the world. The degree is designed for those seeking the academic and ministry preparation for work as movement catalysts and strategy coordinators, missionaries, cross-cultural consultants, as well as cultural researchers. The robust nature of the degree may serve as a step toward doctoral studies in related areas.
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MA in Missiology of Movements is taught by subject matter experts who are both engaging and academic.
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MA in Missiology of Movements focuses on self-paced learning that is essential for the success of those desiring to effectively engage culture with the gospel.
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MA in Missiology of Movements is objectively evangelical, rigorously academic, and foundationally missiological.
Our typical student is:
Participants in the MA program are not more students enrolled in a self-paced course. They join a learning community of like-minded experts and other explorers. We would love to welcome you into a creative and innovative global community.
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A movement catalyst looking to sharpen cross-cultural effectiveness to successfully equip movement leaders
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A disciple-maker focused on equipping others to multiplying disciples
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A movement leader passionate about maturing disciples, developing New Testament leaders, and planting healthy churches
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A pastor transitioning a church to a movement orientation
Curriculum of Study
The MA in Missiology of Movements follows a three-phase curriculum designed to assist students in pursuit of life-long learning: Missiological Foundation, APEST Framework, Three Marks Focus.
Meet the program director
Our program director collaborates with a team of 14 leading experts of movements and missiology to offer a dynamic degree focused on catalyzing movement leaders in North America and around the world.
Professor of Missiological Theology
Michael T. Cooper
Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: The Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.
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Accreditation
Mission India Theological Seminary is accredited by Asia Theological Association, a member of the International Council for Evangelical Theological Education, a global partner within the World Evangelical Alliance.
“This is a degree that equips you to be a leader with skills to catalyze a movement based on a solid missiological theology of the New Testament. We’re not only concerned about what you know, but about who you are and what you do; three motivators for a passion to
declare God’s glory to the nations.”
- Dr. Michael T. Cooper, Program Director
About Mission India Theological Seminary
Developing Christ-like Leaders in the Majority World
In 1993, with a clear vision and guidance from God, Dr. Saji Lukos established a Leadership Training Center for developing Christ-like global leaders for transforming communities in India and beyond. Today, Mission India Theological Seminary focuses on raising up 100,000 Christ-like leaders within the next 25 years.
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