Description
This course is designed to review the purpose and the distinctiveness of the degree, the writing and research guidelines, and how to plan and prepare to set aside the time necessary to do adequate research and writing. Included in the course will be research methodologies, critical thinking, action-reflection modalities, understanding and incorporating case studies, theological improvisation, theological imagination, auto-ethnography, qualitative research, narrative inquiry, narrative writing, and pastoral portfolio as part of the repertoire of what serves to strengthen the degree and entire seminar structure. Students are expected to develop a ?sixth sense? with regard to a dynamic definition and understanding of leadership that will be reviewed from time to time throughout the doctoral program. What differences and practices are necessary that form a well-lived life? What is a Christian spirituality?