Certificate in Theology and the Arts
Program Code: D-TA-C
Degree Designation: Certificate
Department: Divinity School
Website: divinity.duke.edu/academics/certificates/certificate-theology-and-arts
Program Summary
The certificate in theology and the arts aims to provide Duke Divinity School students a firm grounding in the biblical resources, key theological loci, and practices of art making and reception relevant to a lifetime’s engagement with the arts in the church, the university, and beyond. The certificate is open to students in the MDiv, hybrid MDiv, MTS, MA, and ThM degree programs.
Academic Requirements
THM, MTS, and MDVR Requirements (complete 3 courses)
Core Course (complete any)
XTIANTHE 773 (Introduction to Theology and the Arts)
XTIANTHE 972 (Advanced Studies in Theology and the Arts)
Electives (complete any) - see list below
Project
Participation in Events
MDVH Requirements (complete 3 courses)
XTIANTHE 773 (Introduction to Theology and the Arts)
Electives (complete any) - see list below
Project within Formation for Ministry
Participation in Events
MACP Requirements (complete 2 courses)
XTIANTHE 773 (Introduction to Theology and the Arts)
Electives (complete any) - see list below
Arts Assignment in a Non-Arts class
Participation in Events
Vocational Integration
Electives
BCS 768 (Religion, Race, & Relationship in Film)
BCS 769 (Popular Apocalypse: Religion, Race, Popular Culture, and the Eschatological Imagination)
LTS 804 (The Role and Function of Music in Corporate Worship)
LTS 830 (Survey of Christian Hymnody)
NEWTEST 803 (The Passion Narratives)
OLDTEST 861 (Classical Hebrew Poetry)
OLDTEST 972 (The Psalms, Theology, and the Arts in Jewish and Christian Traditions)
PARISH 762 (Christianity and Contemporary Literature)
PARISH 764 (The Poetic Imagination)
PARISH 800 (Women and Spiritual Memoir)
PARISH 807 (The Theology and Spirituality of Place)
SPIRIT 802 (Spiritual Writing Workshop)
XTIANTHE 812 (The Doctrine of Creation and Theological Anthropology)
XTIANTHE 815 (Theology and Music)
XTIANTHE 852 (Modern Theological Anthropology I: Pascal)
XTIANTHE 857 (Love and Desire)
XTIANTHE 968 (The Theological Aesthetics of the Image)
XTIANTHE 781 (Modern Catholic Writing: Faith, Witness, Ecology)
XTIANTHE 782 (Poetry and/as Theology: Part I - G. M. Hopkins, Paul Claudel, R. M. Rilke)
XTIANTHE 783 (Poetry and/as Theology II: T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz, Geoffrey Hill)
XTIANTHE 859 (Christianity and Western Literature)
XTIANTHE 970 (Modern Christology and Chalcedon)
XTIANTHE 972 (Advanced Studies in Theology and the Arts)
XTIANTHE 860 (Theology and Film)
HISTTHEO 760 (Images of God)
LTS 834 (The Role and Function of Music in Corporate Worship)
XTIANTHE 856 (Theology through Visual Art and the Theology of Art)
XTIANTHE 845 (Beauty, Suffering, and the Cross)
XTIANTHE 780 (Recent Catholic Theology: Movements and Figures)
XTIANTHE 861 (Latinx Theological Aesthetics)
Guidance for MDiv (Residential and Hybrid), MTS, and ThM Students Requirements
Courses may be taken in any order
Completion of a research or service-learning project in theology and the arts. The project may be conducted in one of the following ways:
within a course (but not within any of the three courses that fulfill the previous requirement)
within a directed study
as an internship with a director of music or arts pastor at a church
as an independent community-building project
within the context of a field education placement (MDVH - within Formation for Ministry)
Regular participation in bimonthly certificate colloquies and events sponsored by Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts
Guidance for MA Students Requirements
Courses may be taken in any order
Completion of one assignment related to theology and the arts for a non-theology and the arts course, with permission from the instructor
Completion of a 500-word summary of how coursework integrates with current vocation, with specific reference to the certificate in theology and the arts
Regular participation, if feasible, in bimonthly CTA colloquies and DITA-sponsored events