North American Theological Society

While it has neither RA or NA, it is 100% free and has the endorsement of both Dr. Gentry and Dr. John Frame. Should count for something in the Reformed community.

 

It is decidedly Calvinistic.

http://www.theologyamerica.org/admissions.htm

"As we are a school that seeks to train up God's children to minister to the Church in the Reformed tradition, we only accept students who adhere to the basics of the Reformed faith as found in the Five Solas and T.U.L.I.P."

 

Rpniman,

StefanM has provided quote from their website, which is clearly Reformed.

As to the question of Baptist beliefs, I must ask you, What do you mean by "primary Baptist beliefs?" Do you have in mind the Baptist confession of 1689 or 1833? What do you really mean?

 

Quick assessment

I love this idea! However, I think they are somewhat short in meeting their objective at this point. The curriculium is highly variable. Some parts are very good and some parts are less than seminary or college quality. The whole project suffers, according to appearances, from the malady of many correspondance/DE schools--it was created in a hurry on a shoestring budget.

It is a great idea to utilize what is already available on the Internet, as they have done, but one must pick and choose with good standards of quality. The problem is that the quality is highly variable. Some of the science and math courses, for example, are less than college-level in rigor or give practically no instruction. They would have done better to use some of the MIT courseware for quality lectures.

Also, their directed learning activities are poor. To read a book and write summaries for a course is reminiscent of degree mills or less than wonderful schools. There needs to be a variety of learning activities including Q & A, interaction with the instructor, feedback, tests, assigned reading, discussion, interaction with other students, etc. All this can be accomplished within quality DE. There is little or no accountability and testing appears nil.

Also, I am amazed at their doctrinal inconsistency. For a self-professed Calvinistic school with endorsements from Frame and Gentry, I marvel that they use Chuck Missler's lectures for their courses. Chuck is not a Calvinist by any means. He says many things that would be hard for them to swallow. Perhaps they just chose what's available.

Overall, I think this is a noble idea that has not achieved its goal yet. Perhaps it will become a credible effort with time and hard work.

 

I would ask the moderators to excuse my post in the Baptist-only forum.

I am officially involved with the school discussed in this thread, so if you would like more information please post this in a forum that is not for Baptists only and i would be happy to give info and answer q's.