Biblical Studies
The purpose of the Biblical Faculty is:
- To cultivate and promote, by means of scholarly research, the obtaining of "a more profound understanding and exposition of the meaning of Sacred Scripture." (Dei Verbum , §12)
- To offer to the students, by the teaching and practice of various disciplines, in particular the biblical languages, an adequate preparation both for scholarly research and for the teaching and spread of Sacred Scripture and of the disciplines connected with it.
- To work toward "a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture, so that through preparatory study the judgment of the Church may mature" (Dei Verbum, §12) and that Sacred Scripture may have an ever more active role in the study of theology, in pastoral ministry, in ecumenical dialogue, in the sacred liturgy and in the reading of the faithful.
In order for students to be able to follow the courses of the Licentiate with the greatest profit, there is a propaedeutic year dedicated particularly to the study of the following subjects:
- Italian language;
- classical Greek language;
- introductory courses in the Christian East (theology, patristics, liturgy, spirituality, history, canon law).
The program of the propaedeutic year is intended both to provide the necessary foundation for the in-depth study of the disciplines of the Christian East and to aid in the choice of a section for the Licentiate.
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