Program of studies (60 ECTS)

Organized in four two-month terms. The first three terms, three modules each. The final term reserved for dissertation writing.

 

Term 1

Module 1: Digital Methods for Theological Textual Analysis (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Paris

Focus: Text encoding, stylometry, corpus analysis applied to biblical and patristic texts.

  • Key Topics:
    • XML/TEI encoding of theological texts
    • Stylometric analysis of Pauline epistles
    • Computational linguistics in biblical studies
  • Core Readings:
    • Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., & Unsworth, J. (Eds.). A Companion to Digital Humanities.
    • Young, S. D. (2019). Texts, Transmissions, and Technologies: A Guide to the Digital Study of Early Christianity.
    • Ehrensperger, K., & Schliesser, B. (Eds.). Paul and Scripture: Extending the Conversation.

Module 2: Reading and Deciphering Ancient Manuscripts (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: We need a new one

Focus: Paleography, codicology, digital manuscript tools.

  • Key Topics:
    • Greek and Syriac paleography
    • Virtual unwrapping of palimpsests
    • Manuscript digitization and metadata tagging
  • Core Readings:
    • de Hamel, C. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts.
    • van Lit, L. W. (2020). Among Digitized Manuscripts: Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World.
    • Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts.

Module 3: Ecclesiology and Digital Ethics (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Sotirios

Focus: How digital culture reshapes ecclesial life, authority, and ethics.

  • Key Topics:
    • Digital ecclesiology (online sacraments, digital authority)
    • Surveillance capitalism and religious freedom
    • Digital pastoral care and theological ethics
  • Core Readings:
    • Campbell, H. A. The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online.
    • Noble, S. U. Algorithms of Oppression.
    • Graham, E. Digital Humanity: Risk, Power, and the Christian Ethics of Technoculture.

 

Term 2

Module 4: Digital Exegesis and Hermeneutics (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Maria

Focus: Digital tools in scriptural interpretation.

  • Key Topics:
    • Mapping biblical geography digitally
    • Semantic annotation of theological concepts
    • Reception history and social media traces
  • Core Readings:
    • Breed, B. What Can a Text Do? Reception History as an Ethology of the Biblical Text.
    • Lyons, W. J., & England, E. (Eds.). Reception History and Biblical Studies.
    • Moxnes, H. Putting Jesus in His Place: A Radical Vision of Household and Kingdom (for spatial hermeneutics).

Module 5: Digital Bibliographical Research & Archival Practices (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Michael

Focus: Cataloguing, digital libraries, Zotero/Mendeley, theological archives.

  • Key Topics:
    • Religious data repositories and metadata standards
    • Linked open data in theological studies
    • Zotero integration with patristic corpora
  • Core Readings:
    • Terras, M., Nyhan, J., & Vanhoutte, E. (Eds.). Defining Digital Humanities.
    • Flanders, J., & Jannidis, F. (Eds.). The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities.
    • Blake, J. Digitization and the Humanities: How Digital Humanities is Changing Scholarship.

Module 6: Research Seminar: Theology and Digital Culture (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Michael

Focus: Seminar format, guest speakers, case study presentations.

  • Assessment: Digital project proposal for second-year thesis.

 

 

 

Term 3

Module 7: Transhumanism, AI, and the Imago Dei (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Maria

Focus: Theological anthropology, eschatology, AI consciousness.

  • Key Topics:
    • Technological enhancement and human dignity
    • The image of God in post-human theory
    • Patristic anthropology vs. contemporary transhumanism
  • Core Readings:
    • Coeckelbergh, M. AI Ethics.
    • Heriot, W. The Imago Dei in the Age of Machines.
    • Waters, B. From Human to Posthuman: Christian Theology and Technology in a Postmodern World.

Module 8: Digital Academic Writing and Research Dissemination (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Sotirios

Focus: Writing theological papers with digital tools.

  • Key Topics:
    • Zotero, Overleaf (LaTeX), and digital footnoting
    • Markdown for theological publishing
    • Blog-style theological writing and e-publishing
  • Core Readings:
    • Germano, W. From Dissertation to Book.
    • Sword, H. Stylish Academic Writing.
    • Gilchrist, R. Writing for the Web in Theology (online resource).

Module 9: Project Lab ? Digital Theology in Practice (5 ECTS)

Lecturer: Paris

Focus: Collaborative digital project involving coding, curation, or interactive theology.

  • Examples:
    • Build a biblical concordance using Python
    • Create a digitized, annotated life of a saint
    • Design a theological chatbot (limited AI scope)

 

Term 4

Module 10: Master's Thesis (15 ECTS)

Lecturer: All of us equally

A major research project, including digital methodology or digital output.

  • Examples:
    • A digital exegesis of the Gospel of Mark
    • An ethical-theological critique of virtual sacraments
    • A digital edition of a Cappadocian Father?s sermon series

 

 

Term independent module (no ECTS, non-compulsory)

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