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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. Students in their first year also participate in the First-Year Formation seminar and Spiritual Companioning Groups (required in the first semester and optional in the second) that establish a framework for personal and spiritual formation that is integrated throughout the MDiv program.Spiritual Companioning GroupsThese 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. I want to find another Master Course

Master of Divinity students in their first year at Boston University participate in Spiritual Companioning Groups (required in the first semester and optional in the second) that establish a framework for personal and spiritual formation that is integrated throughout the MDiv program.

Disciplines

Religious Studies & Theology

Requirements

Academic Requirements

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English Requirements

IELTSMin 6.5
TOEFLMin 89

Other Requirements

1Online application$95 non-refundable application fee, submitted onlineDigital copy (PDF preferred) of unofficial transcripts from all academic institutions where the applicant received previous academic credit3 Letters of referencePersonal statementCV or ResumeApplication essayStandardized test resultsInternational Applicants only: International applicants to all School of Theology degree programs must include additional items as part of their visa application with the United States government.

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