General Ordination Examinations
This January, I will be joining every other third-year Episcopalian seminarian for the General Ordination Examinations. In 2008, this will consist of seven exams administered over four days (no break day this year). The GOEs are overseen by the General Board of Examining Chaplains, which are directed by church canon to create, administer, and grade the exams in the following seven areas:
- Holy Scriptures
- Church History
- Christian Theology
- Christian Ethics and Moral Theology
- Studies in Contemporary Society
- Liturgics and Church Music
- Theory and Practice of Ministry
If you'd like to see what we're expected to know for the GOEs, and by extension what we're trying to learn in three years of seminary education, you can review this brief summary. After re-reading it, I think I should put away the Harry Potter book and pick up some school books again...