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Doctor of Theology

Description

Foundation for Evangelism
Supports Th.D. Program

Duke Divinity School is grateful to the Foundation for Evangelism for its support of the Th.D. program and the Duke Evangelism Fellowships. These fellowships are available to candidates with demonstrated interest in teaching evangelism. United Methodist students especially are encouraged to apply.
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The Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) program provides students with academically rigorous training, comparable to the demands of the Ph.D., focused on the ministries and practices of Christian communities.

The program centers upon areas of study often neglected by traditional Ph.D. programs, such as worship, preaching, evangelism, and the arts. At the same time, as an integral component of its mission, the Th.D. program seeks to reconfigure the way in which such practices are brought into creative interdisciplinary conversation with the established academic discourses of biblical studies, historical studies, and theology and ethics. Moreover, the interdisciplinary scope of the program extends to other areas of the university and addresses fresh areas of research such as the intersection of Divinity and Health Care, or Peacemaking and Reconciliation, areas where the Divinity School has been developing significant intellectual and programmatic strength.

Please direct all inquiries about the Th.D. program to Mary Slone at 919-660-3436.

Th.D. Questions & Answers

What key characteristic defines the Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) program?

Interdisciplinarity. The program encourages students to think and write across the boundaries of the four traditional disciplines in theological study: Bible, history, theology and ministerial studies.

Through this program we recognize the pastoral, moral and ecclesial passions that drive the most creative, attentive individuals to seek disciplined doctoral work in the first place.

Our best students are making a particular type of witness, helping their professors, colleagues and students discern the difference between personal, scholarly ambition and genuine Christian vocation. continue reading Th.D. Q & A »

Th.D. Student Profiles
  

Warren Kinghorn: Where Faith & Mental Health Intersect

“This is profoundly theological work which requires intensive training in the language and practices of the church. Because of this, the Duke Th.D. program has been a perfect fit.’

Melanie Dobson Hughes: Healing for Body & Soul

“With this degree I can look at aspects of suffering, reconciliation and redemption through Scripture, the Tradition, and in the church’s practices.”

Craig Heilmann: Shedding Light upon Christian Practices

“It is my hope that I will ... end up with a theology ‘with shoes on’-or should I say ‘sandals’?"