Thursday, 17 December 2009

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.

10 Comments:

Adam Kotsko said...

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.

Anthony Paul Smith said...

I assume you have to pay your fees out of the stipend?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info. And an added bonus: it's twice as much money in American dollars!

Anonymous said...

no fees I believe in Norway....

R.O. Flyer said...

I think LeRon Shultz is on drugs. That's insane.

Anonymous said...

Here's the awesome (and theologically orthodox) Richard Swinburne putting silly old Polkinghorne in his place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRcHmi6DIws

Anonymous said...

I wonder if Jesus would qualify?

Convenor said...

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)

dpotter said...

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/

Anonymous said...

can someone from Africa participate?

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