Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificate
Anglican Studies | |
The one-year certificate program Anglican Studies is designed for students who wish to participate in the academic, spiritual, and communal life of CDSP without earning a degree. For example, it is suitable for those who already possess the M.Div. or its equivalent from another seminary and who wish... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Certificates/Postbaccalaureate Certificate
Theological Studies | |
CDSP's newest certificate program, the C.T.S., is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate theological education without earning a degree. The program is especially appropriate for those people who are seeking spiritual enrichment or who might be thinking about coming to seminary, but want... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Art and Religion | |
Degree offered: Ph.D.
Building on the pioneering legacy of the Graduate Theological Union’s interdisciplinary study of faith traditions and the arts, the program is devoted to this study in its many dimensions, including the historical, theological, and aesthetic. Students pursue this study through... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Biblical Studies | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.; Th.D.
Study includes the entire biblical corpus, with a specific concentration in either
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible or New Testament. In addition to the canonical, deuterocanonical,
and extra-canonical materials, courses are also available in the background and
literature... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Christian Spirituality | |
Degree Offered: Ph.D.
Christian Spirituality is an academic field that requires an interdisciplinary
approach in the study of Christian religious experience as such, i.e., as religious
and as lived experience. Students in this program focus on Christian spirituality
in the context of the... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions | |
Degree Offered: Ph.D.
This Area embraces both cross-cultural and historical themes, building
upon scholarly methodologies that advance critical understandings of interreligious,
multicultural, and contextual religious experience. Traditions available for study
include: Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Ethics and Social Theory | |
Degree Offered: Ph.D.
Study in this area requires an interdisciplinary approach to the fields of Christian
Ethics and Social Theory. It is distinctive of this program that ethicists acquire
grounding in social sciences and social theorists acquire grounding in moral theory.
While moral theory... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
History
Christianity | |
The GTU History Area offers its doctoral students distinct tracks: History of Christianity.
The history of Christianity track offers programs of study in the following fields: ancient and eastern Christianity, medieval Jewish-Christian relations, medieval Christianity, the Reformations broadly conceived,... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
History
Jewish history and culture | |
The GTU History Area offers its doctoral students distinct tracks: Jewish history and culture .
In the Jewish history and culture track, students can study Hellenistic Jewish and rabbinic literature, medieval Jewish history and thought, and modern Jewish literature and culture. Among the interests... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Homiletics | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.; Th.D.
Historically, the academic discipline of homiletics evolved as a way
to describe and improve the practice of preaching in the context of a faith community.
It is a discipline with theoretical, practical, and spiritual components, all
of which depend upon dialogue with... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Interdisciplinary Studies | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.; Th.D.
The Interdisciplinary Studies program is designed for students whose interests
are so centrally interdisciplinary that they want to develop critical language
to articulate the interdisciplinary shape, implications, and accountabilities
of their work. Many of the... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Jewish Studies | |
The intellectual appeal of an interdisciplinary program in Jewish studies is precisely
its large chronological, geopolitical, and topical sweep. The Program, however,
seeks to counterbalance this intrinsic breadth, with its danger of superficiality,
by the curricular requirements of specialization... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Liturgical Studies | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.; Th.D.
The goal of this program is to promote the study and understanding of
Christian worship as it is lived and expressed through the churches‘ various
traditions and cultures. It assumes that worship is at the heart of the theological
enterprise, since it is both the primary... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Near Eastern Religions | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.
The Joint Ph.D. program in Near Eastern Religions is the only one of its kind in this country. The rich faculty resources of the Near Eastern Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley and the Biblical Studies Area of the Graduate Theological Union are combined... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Doctor's degree
Systematic and Philosophical Theology | |
Degrees Offered: Ph.D.; Th.D.
Theology students develop solid grounding in a specific theological discipline while integrating dimensions of university-based study into their theological curricula. Students may choose to pursue (1) a theologically oriented program taking into account issues raised by... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Art and Religion | |
At the M.A. level, this area deals with the way in which art and religion inform each other. Students focus on a variety of media, especially the visual arts, film, dance, and drama and their contemporary as well as historic expressions. Each school may have a distinct emphasis. E.g., CDSP offers poetry... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Biblical Languages | |
Designed especially for highly qualified persons planning to pursue doctoral work in biblical studies, the program is also well-suited to persons desiring a terminal degree with a concentration in the biblical languages and a firm background in biblical studies. Prospective students are expected to have... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Biblical Studies | |
Study in this Area provides a strong foundation in the entire biblical corpus. In addition to the Jewish and Christian canonical, deuterocanonical, and extra-canonical scriptures, study also covers the background literature of early Israel, biblical and post-biblical Judaism, and early Christianity.... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Christian Spirituality | |
Students in this area study Christian religious experience. The program is focused on Christian Spirituality in the context of the broad contemporary understanding of spirituality and in conversation with religious spiritualities outside the Christian sphere. Students work to develop competence in biblical... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Divinity | |
A theological curriculum reflects an understanding of the nature of theology in its historical and cultural contexts. The M.Div. program at CDSP is designed to address the special needs of professional ministry, both ordained and lay, in the Episcopal Church. The design and content of its curriculum... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Ethics and Social Theory/Religion and Society | |
Study in this area combines ethics and the social sciences. It includes a focus on theological and social ethics, with attention to ethical theory and history, analysis, and policy as related to politics, health care, feminist ethics, sexual ethics, professional ethics, or environmental ethics. The area... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
History | |
Historical studies provide a means for developing an understanding of the Christian religion through critical historical investigation into the unity, diversity, and development of the Christian community from its origins to the present. In asking how Christians in other places and eras acted and believed,... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Homiletics | |
Here one studies the practice of preaching in the context of a faith community, focusing on theoretical, practical, and spiritual components. The program involves dialogue with areas of study outside homiletics in order to situate preaching in the context of its broader theological and pastoral landscape.... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Liturgical Studies | |
The historical and theological dimensions of Christian worship and ritual practice are the focus of this area. The program is interdisciplinary, and has a focus on both scholarly and pastoral dimensions. Students attend to the multidimensional nature of liturgical events, and to the diversity of socio-cultural... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Religion and Psychology | |
This area explores the contemporary disciplines of psychology, religious traditions, and modes of care and healing. Inherent to the area is the assumption that the resources of contemporary psychology, including social psychology, racial-ethnic, feminist, and cross-cultural perspectives, provide crucial... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Systematic & Philosophical Theology | |
Study in systematic and philosophical theology engages in the ongoing task of interpreting the Christian faith in response to our modern and emerging post-modern culture. Students and faculty analyze the ancient biblical faith by tracing its influence on the history of ideas, its traditional philosophical... |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Masters degree
Theological Studies | |
The M.T.S. is a two-year program that provides solid academic grounding in theological disciplines but is not intended to prepare students for ordination. The hallmark of the M.T.S. is its flexibility. In practice, it has been utilized by international students who are already ordained and wish to further... |
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