Dallas Seminary stands unequivocally committed to God’s inerrant Scriptures. Members of the school’s boards and faculty subscribe to the Seminary’s Doctrinal Statement, which safeguards the school’s unswerving theological stance.

The Seminary’s commitment to the Scriptures leads to a system of doctrine in which the great fundamentals of the Christian faith are affirmed and expounded. The doctrines of evangelical orthodoxy are taught in the framework of premillennial, dispensational theology, derived from a consistent grammatical-historical interpretation of the Bible. Those truths include such essentials as the authority and inerrancy of Scripture, the Trinity, the full deity and humanity of Christ, the spiritual lostness of the human race, the substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ, salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, and the physical return of Christ.

From its beginning the Seminary has admitted only students who give evidence of being born again. More than just regeneration, however, is needed to fully understand the Word of God. To be properly qualified for seminary instruction, a student must be walking in fellowship with God so that he or she can be taught by the Holy Spirit.

At Dallas, the cultivation of the spiritual life is inseparably fused with the scholarly study of biblical and related subjects. All this is designed to prepare students to communicate the Word of God in the power of the Spirit of God.

The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary as a professional, graduate-level institution is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.

While our faculty and board annually affirm their agreement with the full doctrinal statement, students need only agree with these seven essentials:

• the Trinity
• the full deity and humanity of Christ
• the spiritual lostness of the human race
• the substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ
• salvation by faith alone in Christ alone
• the physical return of Christ
• the authority and inerrancy of Scripture.