Welcome to the
Department of Theology
at Fordham University
The Department of Theology promotes a tradition of scholarly excellence and offers robust breadth and depth for undergraduate and graduate studies. Our distinguished faculty members undergird this tradition of excellence through their elite scholarly research and teaching.
The Department of Theology offers four tracks for the undergraduate major, a two-year M.A. program, and an elite Ph.D. program with four focal areas for doctoral research:
Systematic Theology engages Roman Catholic theology in historical and contemporary eras, while also facilitating the study of Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and other religious traditions and worldviews. In addition to classical topics (such as theologies of God and Christ), the Systematic Theology program enables students to focus on ethics, ecclesiology, ecological theology, feminist theology, liberation theology, liturgical theology, Orthodox theology, philosophical theology, and Catholic social thought.
Historical Theology studies the intellectual and social contexts of western Christian theology from late antiquity to the present day, in concert with other disciplines such as medieval studies, philosophy, history, and the social sciences.
Christianity in Antiquity explores the emergence of Christian thought and practice from its formative beginnings in Second Temple Judaism to the fifth century of the common era. It attends to the resources, issues, and methods associated with the fields of New Testament, Patristics, and early Christianity.
Biblical Studies attends to the cultural contexts in which the Bible was written and received, as well as questions of literary criticism and theological implications.
Our intellectually rigorous, collegial, and creative doctoral students in the Department of Theology also benefit from collaboration with the Center for Ethics Education; Medieval Studies; Orthodox Christian Studies; the McGinley Chair in Religion and Society; and affiliated faculty from the Classics and Philosophy departments. The Department of Theology is part of the New York City Doctoral Consortium, which enables students to draw on the courses, library resources and faculties of Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary, New York University, Jewish Theological Seminary, General Theological Seminary, and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.
The undergraduate theology program works closely with the Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice and the Honors Program at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses. Fordham also offers a chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, the national honors society in Theology and Religious Studies.
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Latest News
Friday, February 24, 2 p.m., Duane 140, Rose Hill Campus
Assistant Professor of Theology Michael Peppard will speak on “Papyrological Evidence for Circumcision (and its Reversal) in the Roman Period.” Sponsored by the Classics Department.
Thursday, March 22, 4:15p.m., 12th Floor Lounge, Lincoln Center Campus
Symposium on Derrida and Religion: Of Miracles and Machines
Speakers: Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University), Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams College), Martin Hägglund (Harvard University), and Michael Naas (DePaul University)
Contact: Samir Haddad (sahaddad@fordham.edu).
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