California Religious Studies Doctorate Degrees - PhD in Religion

The ecological challenges of the 21st century represent a crisis of values and consciousness. The pace of global change calls for an understanding of the process by which humanity came to this crossroads in planetary history.

The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program has been designed to help shape the intellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership necessary for meeting historic global challenges...

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...

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 can also...

This area embraces both cross-cultural and historical themes, building upon scholarly methodologies, which advance critical understandings of inter-religious, multicultural and contextual religious experience. Traditions available for study include: Bud...

The program in History provides a means for the critical investigation and understanding of a variety of religious, theological, and social issues from late antiquity to the late twentieth century. This work is done primarily in the history of Christian...

Religion and Society is part of the Ethics and Social Theory area at the GTU. Doctoral students have the choice of concentrating their studies in ethics or the social scientific study of religion. For example, in the ethics concentration, one can focus...

Spirituality is an academic field which studies lived religious experience as such, i.e., as religious and as lived experience. This program is focused on Christian spirituality in the context of the broad contemporary understanding of spirituality and...

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 o...