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Graduate Programs in Theology

Benedict & Fr. FessioTo study theology challenges us to open our minds and hearts to Jesus Christ, the one Teacher who illumines everything by His very being as the Word of the Father in the Holy Spirit. To study Catholic theology is to realize that the Word Incarnate and the Holy Spirit inspired Sacred Scripture and continue to guide the Magisteriium of the Church, whose Tradition directs us as we reach up to the great minds and hearts of the many saints and scholars who over the millennia have contributed to the quest for genuine holiness, wisdom, science, scholarship, and art.

If you decide to join our graduate programs, it is their lives and writings that you will study. Fidelity to Catholic truth demands more -- not less -- commitment to deepening and broadening one's intelligence to appreciate the unity of theological and philosophical wisdom, too often forgotten in the many specializations and fragmentations of contemporary academic culture. Our programs emphasize a contemplative pattern of study that initiates students into the great tradition of speculative wisdom, with its unifying theoretical vision of the whole of God's creative and redemptive presence.


M.A. In Theology

The Master of Arts Program in Theology seeks to assist students in their intellectual, moral, and religious development towards union with God, the Blessed Trinity. Through natural revelation, God manifests himself in creation to human reason in its natural operations. Through supernatural revelation, He manifests himself in and through this same creation but in such a way as to reveal new, intimate depths of His Being and plan that surpass our natural power of knowing.

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Ph.D. in theology

Building upon the sapiential formation and education of the Master of Arts Program, the academic formation of the Doctoral Program in theology is directed toward a further deepening of the student's understanding of the unity embracing all theological disciplines, while also completing the student's appropriation of those skills and habits of mind and heart needed to do specialized research, writing, and teaching in the speculative disciplines of systematic or moral theology.

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Brochure, Application and Course Offerings

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