| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191E2-02 | 30 | Training to prepare the text for the exegetical work: delimit, segment and define the literary structure of a pericope. Training to apply to the biblical text the various readings of synchronic type: analysis of literary structure, semantic / lexicographic analysis, stylistic analysis. Basics of Hebrew poetics. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191E3-02 | 30 | Training to prepare the text for exegetical work: delimit, segment and define the literary structure of a pericope. Training to apply the various diachronic readings to the biblical text: textual criticism, analysis of the constitution of the text, criticism of the literary genre, criticism of the writing, criticism of tradition, synoptic reading of texts. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| TIAGO DE FRAGA GOMES | 3 years and 9 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31138-02 | 30 | This course will address the following topics: the origin and development of New-Testament Christology; the dogmatic itinerary of the mystery of Christ; the interpretation of Jesus in contemporary non-ecclesial movements, and the singularity and contemporary character of Jesus Christ. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 21111-02 | 30 | The course will address the following topics: Experience: the central category of Fundamental Theology; The human experience: Jean Mouroux and H.C. de Lima Vaz; The religious experience: Rudolf Otto and Carlos Dominguez Morano; The mystical experience: Saint Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Maritain; The experience of God as the path to Revelation, Faith and Theology. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| NYTHAMAR HILARIO FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR | 25 years and 9 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31139-02 | 30 | This course will address the following topics: History of the calling and celebration of the Second Vatican Council; The council¿s most important documents; The hermeneutics of the Council; The ecclesiological character of the texts; The implementation of the reform program and the crisis of the Church; The current reception of the Council. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 21108-02 | 30 | This course presents bibliographic documents on important issues in the history of the Church. It looks at matters of "reason and faith" and the relationship between "State and Church¿ in a period of intense debate and intellectual construction. It demonstrates the plurality of medieval philosophical and theological theories and their importance as roots and foundations of contemporary issues. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| ROBERTO HOFMEISTER PICH | 23 years and 9 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| History of Iberian and American Societies | Master's | Not required |
| History of Iberian and American Societies | Doctorate | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Politics, Intellectuals and Media | This line of research emphasises aspects of the formation, development, organization and dissemination of concepts, discourses and political practices, inserted in a historical process and its social context. Its theoretical foundations are specialized literature, mostly of French and Anglo-Saxon origin, that takes into consideration the multiple dimensions of the political universe. This line of study establishes a constant dialogue with the New Political History. The various players (individual, collective and institutional) that move through this multiple universe are the themes of this line of study that concentrates in the intellectuals, the political ideas and its various means and processes of dissemination and social performance. It favours as well those studies devoted to nineteenth and twentieth centuries within an Iberian and American context. The political centrality of the modern state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries does not hinder the development of research that includes other objects and theoretical discussions; on the contrary, political processes are considered beyond the relationship between State and civil society, which enables the development of research into different political organizations or power structures. The political dimension of the research does not exclude the dialogue between Cultural and Social History and the interface with other fields of historical study. The lines conceptual and methodological frame maintains its traditional interdisciplinary approach and establishes a dialogue with Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Psychoanalysis and Social Communication. Thus the press, political parties, trade unions, public policies, public opinion, intellectuals, ideas, elections, associations, armed conflicts, political movements, engaged cultural production, and institutions are objects of interest to this line of research. |
| Society, Economic Development and Migration | The present line of research favours studies on urban transformations and the network of contacts and relationships established in different processes of sociability. It uses the latest theoretical and methodological tendencies of social history and proposes a reflection on the varied social, economic and political ties observed in an urban space; it focusses on studies of the paths of groups and/or individuals, their social and territorial insertion and their experiences and displacements. The identification of the space the different players, through their everyday practices, occupy in society allows the researcher to better understand their contribution in the transformation of cities, companies, industries, arts and crafts, professions and the effects of migration in society as a whole. Issues related to work should also be a part of the considerations about everyday practices associated to societys economic and industrial development. In this context the role of the immigrant regards to entrepreneurship, technology and the circulation of ideas should be emphasised. Among the themes favoured by this line of research are studies of immigration to Brazil, focussing on transnationalism (economic, cultural and political) and the role of immigrants in the process of urbanization and social modernization of the country between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the history of the press and its relationship with other spaces of intellectual production and the power of society; industrialization, planning and urbanization, emphasising the urban changes promoted by the phenomena of industrialization, the new waves of immigration and other forms of human mobility that occurred throughout the twentieth century. The social dimension underlined by this line of research does not exclude the dialogue with cultural and political history and the interface with other areas of history. |
| Culture and Ethnicity | This line of study gives emphasis to transdisciplinary works and promotes historical researches whose approaches employ concepts from different fields of human and social sciences. By focusing on the Iberian and American context from the point of view of social relations, shared practices and knowledge, artistic creation and the production of knowledge, this line underlines phenomena proper to modernity and experiences that transcend its own paradigms. Researches developed within this line of study encompass studies on representation, visual culture and ethnicity. This type of research on culture comprises themes of historical interest, analysed from the perspective of perception, the attribution of meanings and the representation of reality in a particular historical context. Considering the American and Iberian cultural context during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this type of research encompasses the social politics of memory, artistic and intellectual creation in audio, visual and discursive languages, including routes, performances, networks and symbolic exchanges. The configuration of objects in this field tries to reveal historical situations determined according to the universe of beliefs, emotions and knowledge that have given them intelligibility and meaning in their own time. Research on art, image and visual culture problematize the way the various types of images permeate everyday social life creating the visuality of an era, connecting production techniques and circulation of images to the ways of visualizing the different social groups and spaces, proposing a look at the world, mediating our understanding of reality and suggesting models of social action. The production within this thematic line includes research on ethnicity that favours the methodological transit and transdisciplinarity between History, Archaeology and Anthropology, and deals with subjects from the pre-colonial period to contemporary research regarding different ethnic groups. Studies aimed at understanding the interethnic contact in the Ibero-American world via its numerous records, focus on the daily life and cultural manifestations of indigenous populations, caboclo and quilombola communities and other peoples on the fringes of pre-colonial and post-colonial history, using epistemological instruments for the development of analysis not restricted to the reductionist dualism of the societies in contact. |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 21199-02 | 30 | This course will provide the historical context of Theology in Latin America. In addition to that, it will address the Second Vatican Council and its developments in Latin America; The social and ecclesial context of Liberation Theology in the second half of the 20th century; The Methodological Principles of Liberation Theology; The stages of Liberation Theology; Pluralism, globalization, complexity and new possibilities for Liberation Theologies. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| RAFAEL MARTINS FERNANDES | 1 year and 9 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31141-02 | 30 | Students will be required to present and discuss the research projects. They will be required to share their research experiences and discuss the themes related to the doctoral dissertations. They will be advised on the designing of the Doctoral Dissertation, research organization and the structure of the text. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31150-02 | 30 | This course addresses the emergence and evolution of biblical theology, its relation to hermeneutics, with a special emphasis on methodology and its contents in Brazil and Latin America, based on the current issues of the New Testament. It also addresses the contributions of Biblical Hermeneutics to Systematic Theology. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191E1-02 | 30 | Reflection on pastoral care and counseling: definition, nature, history, and content. Establishment of relationships between Pastoral Counseling and Psychology, more particularly Logotherapy. Understanding of the freedom of the will, the search and the will to meaning and the meaning of life as a thematic confluence of Theology, Philosophy and Psychology. Ways of carrying out the Pastoral of listening. Counseling case studies. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191GD-02 | 30 | Approaches between spirituality, education, psychology and theology: definition, nature, history and content. Establishment of relations between Pastoral Theology, Education and Psychology, in particular, Logotherapy. Understanding the freedom of the will, the search and the will for meaning and the meaning of life, as the thematic confluence of Theology, Philosophy and Psychology. Study of the emerging concept of Spiritual Intelligence, which brings together the areas in question. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| LUCIANO MARQUES DE JESUS | 28 years and 4 months | Link |
| TALIS PAGOT | 3 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31142-02 | 30 | This course will provide deeper insights into the theological method to be used in the research for the dissertation. It will address the research and writing procedures for the dissertation: data collection, bibliography, reading, language, writing and technical standards. It will foster a discussion, as a seminar, of some texts on Theology and, later, dissertation projects. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191JD-02 | 30 | It analyses the religious field in interaction with the social context: teaching, symbologies, structured practices, the formation of individualized religiosities; political theologies, movements for the politicization of faith, the commodification of religiosity. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| EMIL ALBERT SOBOTTKA | 27 years and 4 months | Link |
| TALIS PAGOT | 3 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31143-02 | 30 | This course will address the following topics: Origin, development and relevance of the Christian understanding of the Divine Mystery; Study of the most important attitudes and current trends in the face of transcendence; Identification of the roots of the relationship of the Brazilian people with transcendence; The meaning and specificity of faith in the One and Triune God; Introduction to current issues regarding God's idolatry, affirmation, and denial; Study of the development of Trinitarian Theology and its relevance following the Second Vatican Council. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| LUIZ CARLOS SUSIN | 40 years and 9 months | Link |
| IR. EVILAZIO F BORGES TEIXEIRA | 29 years and 11 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191JE-02 | 30 | Interlocution between theology and other disciplines or sciences, involving religious perspectives and spiritualities for the study of emerging and complex themes through an inclusive approach and interdisciplinary dialog. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| AGEMIR BAVARESCO | 17 years and 4 months | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Ethics and Political Philosophy | Master's | Not required |
| Ethics and Political Philosophy | Doctorate | Not required |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology | Master's | Not required |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| The State and Theories of Justice | This line of research addresses the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of the theories of justice from scholars such as Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, as well as their different critical and alternative views in communitarian and utilitarian theories. |
| Ethics Principles | This line of research addresses the central issues of Ethics as they have been conceived over time and under the systematic aspect, in view of scholars such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant and others. The relationship between practical and theoretical reason is a central area. |
| Phenomenology and Hermeneutics | This line of research is intended to analyze the classical theories of knowledge under the perspective of the philosophers of phenomenology, which has been the norm in Europe for almost a century and has representatives all over the world. |
| Philosophy in the Middle Ages | This line of research addresses philosophers of the Middle Ages. |
| Analytic Epistemology | This line of research addresses the fundamental topics of contemporary Epistemology: theories of knowledge, theories of epistemic rationality, skepticism and epistemic paradoxes. |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 31140-02 | 30 | This course will address the following topics: Historical context of Theology in Latin America; The Second Vatican Council and its developments in Latin America; The social and ecclesial context of Liberation Theology in the second half of the 20th century; The Methodological Principles of Liberation Theology; The stages of Liberation Theology; Pluralism, globalization, complexity and new possibilities for Liberation Theologies. |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191GE-02 | 30 | Religion and society and their relationship with the symbolic power of the media; Complex understanding of communication; Networked dialogues in the digital media environment; Communication and the future of faith; Otherness and the culture of care in the risk society; Normative and technical perspectives and the possibilities of dialogue. |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| ROSANGELA FLORCZAK DE OLIVEIRA | 3 years | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Communication Practices and Culture | Master's | Not required |
| Communication Practices and Culture | Doctorate | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191JN-02 | 30 |
| Professors | Home time | Lattes |
| CLELIA PERETTI | - | Link |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191LB-02 | 30 |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |
| COD | Workload | Description |
| 191LC-02 | 30 |
| No offer for current semester |
| Concentration area | Type | Required |
| Systematic Theology | Master's | Not required |
| Systematic Theology | Doctorate | Not required |
| Research line | Description |
| Theology and Contemporary Thinking | This line brings together projects and research groups that connect Theology to current issues as they interact with science and contemporary thinking, in view of the interpellations of society and reality from the context of Latin America. |
| Theology, Religious Experience and Pastoral | This line is concerned with conducting research into relevant aspects of the Christian identity; it also carries out a theological analysis into pastoral practices of Christian communities and those regarding self-expressions of experiences of faith with a view to connecting and establishing a significant presence in a pluralized and divided world. |