Theology is the disciplined reflection on the mystery of God in the world and on the traditions of belief, worship, and ethics that shape communities of faith. It explicitly reinforces the tradition ...

In 2018, Pope Francis promulgated the apostolic constitution Veritatis Gaudium, which was a document devoted to the reform of ecclesiastical universities and seminaries. As Pope Francis states in the ...

The confused sense of purpose in the theology departments at many of our Catholic institutions of higher learning is one of the biggest challenges facing the Catholic Church in the United States.

The Saint Louis University Department of Theological Studies is a community of scholars inspiring SLU students to examine religious and ethical commitments, to practice a faith that does justice, and ...

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Where did the term “pastoral theology” come from, and why was the university curriculum ever carved up so that pastoral or practical theology occupied a completely different division from systematic ...

The Ph.D. in theology and education educates scholars in the interdisciplinary field of religious education as one expression of practical theology. Participants take courses in theology, education, ...

The hallway outside the first plenary buzzed with greetings, hugs and quick catch-ups. Colleagues reunited, picking up conversations and friendships with ease. But beneath the warmth and laughter, a ...

It would be tempting while reflecting on A Theology of Liberation, the 1971 book by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, to compare it to a couple of musicals from that same year: the Broadway ...

For white people living in the United States, the entanglement of Christianity with chattel slavery and antiblack racism forms a set of deep and confusing paradoxes. As a nation, we understand ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. What is revolutionary about these three black theologians is that they rely heavily on dogmatic texts from the patristic period to the Reformation. Why is ...