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Actually, Baylor has come up in my search--I read Byerly's article on Persons and Properties--so I probably will apply there as well. My understanding is that they came into some money about a decade ago and are therefore in a position to offer solid funding. As you say, I certainly won't go to a program unless my tuition, at least, is fully covered, and ideally I'd choose a program that offers a stipend as well. Thanks for the further info on Baylor!

I'm currently working on my MA in Theology and will soon be applying to PhD programs in Theology and/or Philosophy. Both my verbal and analytic writing scores were over the 90th percentile, but my quant. score wasn't very impressive: 160 (78%). So far as I know, most phil./theology programs are mostly concerned with the verbal score and, to a lesser degree, the AW score. Should I be concerned that my quant. score isn't as competitive? Or this is essentially irrelevant for these disciplines? Thanks for any info or advice.

First off, thanks to everyone who's posted; this has been super informative for me. I'm currently pursuing my MA in Theology at General Theological Seminary in NYC, and am in the process of applying to PhD programs this Fall, hoping to start in the Fall of '14 (I should graduate from GTS in the Spring of '14). Though my current work is of course in theology, I am really interested in the intersection of theology and philosophy, especially metaphysics, ontology, and the philosophy of science. Thus far, I've been trying to focus on schools that have solid theology and philosophy programs. Right now, Marquette, Duquesne, and Villanova are at the top of my list. Villanova doesn't offer a PhD in Theology--but they do offer one phil. slot with an emphasis on theology. And this gets me to my main confusion: should I pursue a degree in philosophy with an emphasis in theology, or a PhD in philosophical theology? Most of the specific issues I'm interested in are more directly philosophical in nature, but my overall project, as it were, is decidedly theological. I'm interested in exploring how a renewed metaphysics and ontology can help Christian theology to speak meaningfully and believably about God, resurrection, and salvation--neither slipping into liberal overskepticism nor fideistic fundamentalism. Any advice or guidance on who might be publishing in this territory and what schools I should be looking at would be most appreciative. I've been scouring a number of journals (esp. Faith and Philosophy, Philosophy and Theology, and Modern Theology) but have only found a few really interesting articles so far--mainly from Doran at Marquette and Godzieba at Villanova. My main influences are Hegel, Buber, Zizioulas, and (with considerable criticism) Milbank (for a while, Nottingham was at the top of my list, but Radical Orthodoxy, though I think valuable and even crucial, seems to be such a polarizing school that I'm not sure I'd want to do my work at Nottingham--though I am open to be convinced that this would be a good tack. It seems to me that it often steps beyond critiquing secularity and science and actually dismissing/attacking them, which I think is a step too far.) Thanks in advance for any advice.