Overview

The Divinity curriculum at Boston University is built on a sequence of first-year courses that begin the process of exploring the knowledge, skills, and practices of religious leadership. In the first year, students engage in interdisciplinary reflection on the contexts, theologies, and historical experiences of Christian communities through a yearlong sequence that begins with Introduction to Christian Traditions and ends with Christianity Engaging Modernity. Employing theological, historical, and other contextual lenses, students explore leadership for the twenty-first century in a variety of contexts within those two courses. In the semester-long Practicing Faith, students investigate the spiritual and ethical practices of Christian communities across time and throughout the world and begin to develop a vision of their vocation as leaders in religious communities and in the world.

Spiritual Companioning Groups

These are taken in addition to the First-Year Formation course, which introduces the “relational spirituality” model used at STH. The notion of “companioning” here borrows from theologians and educators (especially LatinX leaders who speak of “acompañamiento”) who understand formation for religious leadership to be a communal journey of traveling together and learning from one another through processes of spiritual reflection and development, mutual support, and mentoring. Guided by facilitators, students share and learn spiritual practices, develop sustaining relationships, and cultivate patterns of balance, rhythm, and integration as an intrinsic dimension of their scholarship and vocation.

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Christian Traditions

Christianity Engaging Modernity

Practicing Faith

Any STH social ethics course

Hebrew Bible

New Testament

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-02 00:00:00
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Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
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Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
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Credits

72 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Boston, United States

Disciplines

Theology and Religious Studies Christian Studies Liberal Arts View 476 other Masters in Christian Studies in United States

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General requirements

Online application

$95 non-refundable application fee, submitted online

Digital copy (PDF preferred) of unofficial transcripts from all academic institutions where the applicant received previous academic credit

3 Letters of reference

Personal statement

CV or Resume

Application essay

Standardized test results

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24048 USD / year

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Living costs

Boston

United States

1560 - 3239 USD / month

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