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. The residential setting of Ave Maria University offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a contemplative pattern of study, in accord with the monastic and university traditions of theology as speculative intellectual exercises rooted in the life of prayer. The goal is to educate theological scholars who will be thoroughly conversant with the main doctrinal, theoretical, and moral theological traditions of Catholicism.
Within this residential context, speculative theological education provides the student with the academic expertise to undertake a professional career in the research and teaching of theology, and thereby completes the formation begun in their Master of Arts Program, as well as the Master of Theological Studies Program in the Institute for Pastoral Theology. The pursuit of speculative insight enables the student to see the profound congruity of the many doctrinal and moral truths of the Catholic faith, with the goal of enabling the student to participate in the responsible deepening of theological knowledge through research, publications, and teaching at the seminary and university levels.
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