Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
This should go into the "Ben thinks too much and doubts his ability" file and please feel free to just kick me and tell me to quit thinking and whining too much if need be. Seriously.
However
This may be just "graduation jitters" or the like but I wanted y'alls advice and counsel. I have reached the end of my M.Div training at PTS, a liberal PC(USA) school from which I will receive my degree. It has become painfully obvious to me that I need some more in-depth study in theology while I have been preparing for my Licensure exams and as I enter the Pastorate. I have frankly been cramming what I failed to receive the first two years of seminary (and what I could not take at RPTS since then) into these last 6 weeks. It is certainly not that I do not know nor understand Reformed Theology or the like but I really think I need to have some oversight with my catch-up studies. My question is would it be best to work n an M.A. through something like RTS-Virtual or work on a Th.M through PRTS which I would do through weekly seminars or would be setting up self-study with the oversight of a fellow Pastor of Elder be best, or a combination?
So the options would be.
1) Take an M.A.
2) Work on a Th.M
3) Self-Study and teaching from Elders and Pastors smarter than I
Blessings and Thanks,
However
This may be just "graduation jitters" or the like but I wanted y'alls advice and counsel. I have reached the end of my M.Div training at PTS, a liberal PC(USA) school from which I will receive my degree. It has become painfully obvious to me that I need some more in-depth study in theology while I have been preparing for my Licensure exams and as I enter the Pastorate. I have frankly been cramming what I failed to receive the first two years of seminary (and what I could not take at RPTS since then) into these last 6 weeks. It is certainly not that I do not know nor understand Reformed Theology or the like but I really think I need to have some oversight with my catch-up studies. My question is would it be best to work n an M.A. through something like RTS-Virtual or work on a Th.M through PRTS which I would do through weekly seminars or would be setting up self-study with the oversight of a fellow Pastor of Elder be best, or a combination?
So the options would be.
1) Take an M.A.
2) Work on a Th.M
3) Self-Study and teaching from Elders and Pastors smarter than I
Blessings and Thanks,