More and more seminaries, Bible colleges, and Christian universities are opting to train future ministers and missionaries online--and yet, the factors that have driven this choice have typically been pragmatic and financial. What the movement toward online ministry training has lacked is a theological foundation. As a result, practices of online ministry training have been shaped in most institutions by a hodgepodge of institutional pressures and secular learning theories.

This book asks and answers the question, "How might online ministry training look different if biblical and...