Theological Studies
The Theological Studies path is designed to encourage critical, constructive, and historically informed engagement with the full breadth of Christian teaching across different historical periods and cultural contexts. The path faculty believe it is essential for students to be exposed to a wide range of methods, perspectives, and literatures in pursuing doctoral study in this field (various designated as constructive, dogmatic, or systematic theology), and we correspondingly support graduate work in theology that reflects sympathetic yet critical engagement with the widest possible range of Christian thought, including Black, Asian, Latine, feminist, womanist, and queer theologies with and alongside the more formally confessional positions of the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions. We also welcome proposals that seek to explore projects in comparative theology with other religious traditions represented in the GDR and the Laney Graduate School more broadly. Students in the Theological Studies path are especially encouraged to profit from collaboration with students and faculty in the Africana Religions, Christian Ethics, Global Christianity, Historical Studies in Theology and Christianity, and Religions in the Americas paths.
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