The profession that built the early Church is being restored.
Launching July 2026.
Saint Luke's College of Theology is a Florida religious institution offering the first professional degree in Christian catechesis, the discipline of forming believers in the substance and structure of the faith.
"Since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught." - Luke 1:3
What Happened to the Catechist?
In the year 50 AD, before the New Testament was complete, the Church produced its first instructional document. It was called the Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. It was not written for children. It was written for the men and women who would form the next generation of Christians in a world that had never heard the gospel.
For the first four centuries of the Christian era, the catechist was one of the most important figures in the Church. Augustine of Hippo wrote a full manual on catechetical method. The Catechetical School of Alexandria was one of the great intellectual institutions of the ancient world.
Today, the discipline that once produced Augustine's theology, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Westminster Confession has been reduced to a children's program administered by a volunteer. Generations of believers have been handed the packaging of the faith without the substance. They know the vocabulary but not the architecture.
Saint Luke's College of Theology exists to address that failure at the root. Not with another pamphlet. With a degree and a modern profession.
Six Courses. One Unified Model.
The MCC curriculum is built on six courses. Each course is a complete model, a structural, architectural, and systematic way of holding one essential dimension of the Christian faith, and each course is worth four semester credit hours. There are no electives. There is no filler.
The Soul's Legal Status
Salvation as a jurisdictional matter. How the fall placed humanity under external legal claim and how the cross effects a lawful transfer of the believing soul into the kingdom of the Son.
Structural Christianity
The analytical lens that gives the program its name. Reading Scripture with disciplined attention to the architecture beneath the story and the system beneath the symbols.
Forensic Theology
A courtroom question addressed to the biblical record. What actually happened, when, and to whom, and how the biblical timeline sits comfortably inside an ancient physical universe.
Catechistical Philosophy
The practical philosophy of the catechist: how to guide another believer into the framework of the faith using ordinary language, grounded in the first commandment first.
Broken Interfaces
How the fall corrupted the channels through which the human soul was meant to interact with its Maker, and why the soul of a believer remains safe while those interfaces remain bent.
Comparative Models
The capstone. Placing the program's models alongside those of science, other religious traditions, and secular philosophy, and asking which accounts for the most evidence at the lowest cost to coherence.
The First Professional Degree for Catechists
A J.D. is the first professional degree for lawyers. An M.D. is the first professional degree for physicians. The Master of Christian Catechesis is the first professional degree for the practice of catechesis: the credential that says this person has received the formation required to practice the discipline at a professional level.
This credential is designed for lay ministers, vocational pastors, Christian educators, homeschool parents who are serious about what they are doing, and any believer who wants to understand their own faith at the level it deserves to be understood.
No Bachelor's Required
No undergraduate degree is required. The MCC is a first professional degree under Florida Administrative Code, and the College offers four documented admissions paths, including professional experience, the College's own Professional Diploma, and a combined education-and-experience track. The first course requires only registration. See Admissions for full details.
Open to All Christians
The College welcomes students from across the breadth of Christian tradition. Whether for personal enrichment, lay ministry, or vocational preparation, the program serves anyone who desires a thorough, structured engagement with Scripture as a unified whole.
The Curriculum Speaks for Itself
Saint Luke's College of Theology is not accredited. Accreditation in the United States would require the College either to submit to secular oversight designed for a different kind of institution, or to affirm compressed doctrinal formulas the curriculum is explicitly built to refine. Neither is acceptable, so the College has chosen a more direct path to institutional transparency.
Every course offered by the College, and every textbook the College has authored, is published in full and available without charge through the LMS link in the main menu, directly beneath Home. There is no paywall, no registration requirement, and no obligation to enroll. Prospective students, scholars, critics, and peer practitioners are invited to read the material and evaluate the rigor and depth of the teaching for themselves, before enrolling and without cost.