Education
A.B. Calvin College, M.Div. Western Theological Seminary, Ph.D. University of Groningen
Tom.Boogaart@westernsem.edu

Courses
BF103 Old Testament Life and Witness
BF110 Biblical Hebrew
BF111 Hebrew Translation and Interpretation
BF513 Studies in Prophets
BF522 Old Testament Narratives
BF523 Old Testament Theology
BF527 Literature of the Second Temple Period
BF614 Hebrew Reading
DM810 D.Min. Orientation Seminar

I help students recover the sacred in the scriptures; that is, its power to bless them and energize their ministries. Together we explore the ways Western culture has silenced the scriptures, and together we listen again to its song of peace.

Background

Tom Boogaart has spent a lifetime immersed in the scriptures, as a student and teacher in the Netherlands and in England, and later at Central College in Iowa and at Western. The biblical vision he has gained has sent him deep into the issues facing Western Christians, and he sees, through Old Testament lenses, the clear opposition of Western cultural values to those of scripture. Dr. Boogaart works to help his students renew their own biblical vision; he has also worked to bring his to life by helping to initiate such ministries as The Bridge and the Community Kitchen and Witness, an organization of support for women in church leadership.

Dr. Boogaart has extended his teaching ministry outward by leading many retreats and seminars and by teaching nearly weekly in area churches. He is the author of two books and many articles in Perspectives, a Journal of Reformed Thought, and Western's Reformed Review. Dr. Boogaart also directs Western's Doctor of Ministry degree program.