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Academics & Programs

The Anglican Episcopal House of Studies offers both academic and formational programs for interested M.Div./M.T.S. and doctoral students, including a Certificate in Anglican Studies and preparation for the General Ordination Examination. Its intimate size (40-50 students; six faculty) within a larger, ecumenically-diverse context fosters honest friendship and confessional depth, even across the various issues that sometimes threaten to divide Anglicans and Episcopalians. The House welcomes sabbatical visitors (lay and ordained), local clergy and ‘special’ (one-year) students; and enjoys many international links from Canterbury to Khartoum.

Certificate in Anglican Studies

Students in the M.Div. program interested in the Certificate in Anglican Studies should declare that interest on matriculation to the director of Anglican Studies so they may be assigned an Anglican/Episcopal faculty advisor. The certificate is designed to serve the academic and formational requirements of those preparing for ministry – ordained and lay – in the Episcopal Church and other member churches of the Anglican Communion. The requirements for the certificate are:

  1. completion of three courses in Anglican Studies;
  2. active regular participation in the Anglican spiritual formation program at Duke;
  3. completion of one field education placement in an Episcopal/Anglican setting; and
  4. satisfactory fulfillment of the middler evaluation with an Anglican/Episcopal faculty member.

Anglican Spiritual Formation

Anglican Spiritual Formation is a program offered through the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies. It represents a commitment more than a course, for those working to bring together the different aspects of life under God in a context of mutual accountability: personal and professional, academic and practical, devotional and ecclesial. The aim is to help one another establish habits and develop the character to underpin a lifetime of service (ordained or lay) within an Anglican/Episcopal setting. This begins with a daily commitment to morning prayer, and it also assumes a parish involvement beyond Duke Divinity School as well as routine participation in the services and seminars of the AEHS.

Anglican Spiritual Formation (CHUCHMIN 4) is an ongoing core program for those pursing the Certificate in Anglican Studies. Some meetings will be open to welcome those not formally registered in the program.