MA in Spirituality

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Master of Arts in Spirituality is an ATS accredited graduate level academic program designed to help students deepen their understanding of Christian spirituality. Students will study various classical and contemporary Christian spiritual and mystical traditions, movements, and figures.

Graduates will be equipped to better understand their own spiritual journey and prepared to be valuable resources for spirituality and renewal centers, parish and retreat work, as well as other spirituality-related faith formation and educational programs in a culturally diverse and globalized world.

The concentration on Oblate Studies will equip the graduate to give that focus to these activities and to the first and ongoing formation of members of the Mazenodian Family and Oblate units.

This program is available fully online or partially in class and online, and consists of the following courses:

COURSES ON SPIRITUALITY IN GENERAL:

· MA Pro Seminar

· An Overview of the History of Christian Spirituality (2 semesters)

· Reading Religious Experience and the Discernment of Spirits

· Biblical Foundations of Spirituality

· Fundamental Principles of Spiritual Direction

SPECIFIC OBLATE STUDIES COURSES:

· Saint Eugene de Mazenod. Historical Background, Life, and Key Aspects of his Spirituality, Charism and Mission

· Mazenodian Spirituality

· History and Missionary Expansion of the Oblate Congregation

· Founders, Charisms and their Expression in Constitutions and Rules

· Oblation as an Expression of Missionary Discipleship

A MASTER’S THESIS ON A TOPIC CONNECTED WITH OBLATE STUDIES.

For further details please consult https://ost.edu/ma-spirituality/