PTS Catalogue - Princeton Theological Seminary

Seminary and University Scholarship
Doctoral students are expected to learn from disciplines of the university, even
as they focus those disciplines for distinctive concerns and contexts of Christian
theological traditions. This program not only enables scholarship at the Seminary
to sustain its own community of research into religious and social issues, it also
serves as a liaison between the Seminary and Princeton University and, occasionally,
between the Seminary and other nearby institutions.
U.S. and International Scholarship
The dual focus on religion and society, and its distinctive interdisciplinary work,
has traditionally made the Religion and Society Program an important resource
for international as well as U.S. scholars. The Ph.D. program places a high value on
a functioning diversity of scholars from this country and from abroad, who come
together to reflect critically on issues of justice and peace, and on human differences
that are not only religious, social, and theological, but also cultural, political,
and economic. Thus, the Religion and Society Program has traditionally sought to
fuse rigorous reflection with social criticism and prophetic discourse.
Ph.D. Seminars Offered by Religion and Society Program Faculty
Critical Issues in the History of Religions (Young)
The American Jeremiad: American Religion in Cultural Context (Pierce)
Methods in Theological and Religious Studies (Taylor)
Aquinas on Law and the Virtues (Bowlin)
Theological Anthropology (Johnson)
Race, Racism, and Religion in America (Pierce)
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William Stacy Johnson
Arthur M. Adams Professor of
Systematic Theology
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