Experience the intersection of faith, action and intellect.

As a theology department in the Catholic tradition, we prepare students to participate as active and critical adults in the long, diverse and continuing conversation that is the Catholic intellectual and spiritual heritage.

Of course, our commitment to the Catholic heritage includes a broader context necessary for open discourse. At the Mount, you will learn and share insights about other spiritual and theological traditions, both Christian and non-Christian.

Many of our theology majors go on to careers in clerical, lay and youth ministry after their involvement in the Mount’s extraordinary faith-related activities.

Get ready to explore:

• Questions of ultimate meaning
• The role of tradition in questioning
• The relationship between faith and reason
• The effects of the Enlightenment on contemporary religion
• The relationship between faith and community
• Dimensions and characteristics of religious experience
• Understanding of revelation
• An introduction to the Bible
• The relationship between the Bible and the church
• The meaning of inspiration, inerrancy and interpretation
• A study of the Christological controversies in the early church
• A study of the incarnation rooted in practices of imitation and worship
• The challenge of modernity to classical Christology
• The quest for the historical Jesus
• Historical-critical method of gospel study
• Skeptical and moderate gospel criticism
• Jesus in context of 1st century Palestine
• Extra-biblical sources for Jesus
• The life of discipleship
• An examination of miracles of Jesus
• An examination of the death and resurrection of Jesus

The topics above are a few samples from THEOL 200.

For more details on this and other programs in the Department of Theology, please visit the department's site.