Theology essay competition and PhD stipends
It's not always easy to make an honest living from theology. So here are two notable opportunities for young theologians in the coming year:
Essay competition in honour of Polkinghorne
In 2010 the International Society for Science and Religion will be celebrating the 80th birthday of its founding President, John Polkinghorne. With funding from the Templeton Foundation, the ISSR is offering three substantial prizes to students or younger academics (not yet in a tenured post) for an essay on a major theme of Polkinghorne’s work (e.g. divine action, chaos theory, eschatology, natural theology, information, epistemology, etc). The prizes are very lucrative:
1st prize: £10,000
2nd prize: £5,000
3rd prize: £2,000
For further details, see the ISSR website.
Two PhD stipends in theology, University of Agder
LeRon Shults also announces that his university in Norway will be providing two new PhD stipends for theology students. Recipients of the stipend will receive a salary of about US$52,000 per year over three years, as well as travel funds, etc. LeRon has more details at his blog.
Those stipends are INSANE!!! They're more than I'm getting paid as a full-time professor. Maybe I need to do a second PhD.
I assume you have to pay your fees out of the stipend?
Thanks for the info. And an added bonus: it's twice as much money in American dollars!
no fees I believe in Norway....
I think LeRon Shultz is on drugs. That's insane.
Here's the awesome (and theologically orthodox) Richard Swinburne putting silly old Polkinghorne in his place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcHmi6DIws
I wonder if Jesus would qualify?
We would be very grateful if you could bring to your readers' attention the December issue of our journal of Catholic thought and study in the fields of liturgy (Summorum Pontificum), biography, history, music, culture and heritage:
www.catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2009/12/christvs-regnat-december-2009.html
We would also be very grateful if you could link/follow/blogroll our blog:
www.catholicheritage.blogspot.com
Please pray for me!
God bless you!
St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association (Ireland)
Also, St. Mary's at the Uni of St. Andrews is offering scholarships (those of us who have paid about $60,000 to study here are green with envy!)
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/admissions/pg/phdscholarships/
can someone from Africa participate?
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