The Theological College of Africa (TCA), a specialized graduate division within the School of Theological Studies at Missional University, offers advanced theological education designed for scholar-practitioners who will shape the future of African Christianity. All programs operate from an evangelical commitment to the inspiration and final authority of Scripture, ensuring that rigorous academic inquiry serves the church’s global mission. TCA’s graduate curriculum equips leaders to produce original research that is contextually grounded, missiologically oriented, and theologically robust—advancing evangelical scholarship across the African continent and beyond.
TCA recognizes that all Christian theological reflection is socioculturally situated; accordingly, graduate students undertake advanced study of Christian African Theology through an evangelical hermeneutic that privileges Scripture while engaging indigenous epistemologies. Master’s and doctoral candidates conduct primary-source research into oral traditions, postcolonial discourses, and ubuntu ontologies, submitting every construct to biblical critique. Seminars analyze seminal evangelical African thinkers—Mbiti on time and eschatology, Bediako on primal religions and Christology, Oduyoye on gender and pneumatology—training students to publish peer-reviewed articles that extend these trajectories. Dissertation cohorts employ ethnographic, historical, and biblical-theological methods to address contextual challenges such as ethno-theology, ecological crisis, and digital evangelism, producing scholarship that equips local churches and influences global evangelical thought.
Every course interprets theology within the missio Dei, understood as God’s Trinitarian movement toward cosmic restoration, with Christ’s atoning work and the Great Commission as non-negotiable center. Graduate research adopts a missional hermeneutic that reads Scripture as narrative-invitation, demanding participatory exegesis. Doctoral colloquia integrate Bosch’s paradigm shifts with Newbigin’s gospel-culture dialectic, requiring students to construct missional ecclesiologies for megacity slums, refugee corridors, and interfaith frontiers. Faculty-mentored projects yield monographs, policy briefs, and open-access curricula that resource denominational networks, ensuring scholarship remains tethered to evangelistic urgency and disciple-making outcomes.
As a graduate arm of Missional University, TCA accesses a transnational consortium of evangelical research centers, digital archives, and field collaboration across the continent. The TCA Center for African Evangelical Research (CAER) hosts annual symposia, funds post-doctoral fellowships, and will maintain an emerging open-access repository of evangelical African theses. Online delivery combines intensive virtual modules with mentorship, enabling full-time pastors and NGO leaders to complete ThM, DMin, or PhD degrees without relocating. All dissertations undergo double-blind peer review and are defended publicly before interdisciplinary panels, guaranteeing scholarly excellence and missional relevance.
In sum, TCA’s graduate programs forge evangelical scholar-leaders who generate transformative research at the nexus of African context, biblical authority, and God’s mission. Graduates emerge equipped to publish, teach, and lead—advancing an authentically African, unapologetically evangelical witness that reverberates from village pulpits to international journals.
