Doctor's degree Christian Spirituality - Graduate Theological Union

Doctor's degree Christian Spirituality from Graduate Theological Union is a Campus Ph.D Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Christian Spirituality is an academic discipline that investigates Christian religious experience as such, that is, as both religious experience and as lived experience. It necessarily examines spirituality in light of the broad contemporary understanding of spirituality and in conversation with religious spiritualities outside the Christian sphere. Because the field is intrinsically interdisciplinary, students in the program are required to achieve a basic competence in five constitutive areas of study: biblical foundations of Christian spirituality; history of Christian spirituality; the field of Christian spirituality itself; a spirituality outside the Christian tradition; and the relation of spirituality to another academic discipline selected from the humanities, the social sciences or the natural sciences. Objectives The doctoral program in Christian Spirituality prepares students to read and interpret biblical texts for Christian Spirituality; to contextualize the major figures, texts, and themes in the historical development of Christian Spirituality; to achieve a dialogical understanding of another spirituality not within the Christian tradition; and to do research and create analytical arguments in this interdisciplinary field. With these skills students have graduated from the program and gone on to teach religious studies , Christian Spirituality, and theology in undergraduate and graduate programs in colleges, universities, and seminaries; to administer and deliver programs at retreat centers; and to serve churches at local, regional, national, and international levels. View more details on Graduate Theological Union . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.