FACULTY OF DIVINITY St John’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TW
The Divinity Faculty provides excellent facilities for research in biblical studies, ancient, medieval and modern Judaism, patrisdes, church history, doctrine, philosophy of religion and ethics, the relationship of religion and science, and in the study of religions with special reference to Islam, and Hinduism and Buddhism in India. The Degree Committee for the Faculty, in considering applications for admission, will have regard to the availability in Cambridge of an appropriate supervisor and of adequate material for the subject of research proposed.
Graduate Students have access to the Library of the Divinity School in addition to the University Library. There are also other theological libraries of a high quality in Cambridge. In addition to receiving individual supervision, Graduate Students are invited to seminars and discussion groups in appropriate subjects: at present there are regular seminars in Old Testament, New Testament, Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies, Patristic, Church History, Systematics, Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies.
The teaching staff of the Faculty at present consists of 21 Teaching Officers, of whom four are Professors and three are Readers; and help is given by members of other Faculties, including the Professors of Hebrew and Ecclesiastical History.
The M.Litt. and Ph.D. Degrees are awarded for a dissertation which must not exceed BO.OOO words. In their first year students are not registered for any degree. Registration for the M.Litt. or the Ph.D. degree is at the discretion of the Degree Committee, on the basis of the candidate’s work in that first year. Candidates are required to submit a written progress report which will be discussed with them by their supervisor and an independent assessor, on whose recommendation the Degree Committee will act. Where appropriate, candidates may be required to undertake the M.Phil, before proceeding work for the MXitt. or Ph.D. Candidates are sometimes required to sit a progress examination, e.g. in a language, at the end of their first year. There is no other course-work or form of examination, apart from the oral examination of the dissertation.
Special checklist for those intending to undertake graduate work in the Faculty of Divinity
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