The Alexandrian Institute forms students in Christ’s Word, to gain wisdom for service in God’s church and for faithful engagement with the world. The PhD Program offers a rigorous, non-residential pathway for advanced theological research shaped by the Institute’s distinctive vision for integrative scholarship and faithful Christian witness. Led by Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer, the program cultivates scholars capable of engaging deeply with Scripture, the Great Tradition, and contemporary culture characterised by the following commitments:
Scriptural Fidelity
We are committed to scriptural inerrancy and the Bible’s authority in all areas of knowing God and living faithfully as Christians in his world.
Theological Integration
We aim to build an institution that brings together biblical, systematic, and public theology as extensions of rightly knowing God as he has revealed himself, and knowing all things by this light.
Reformed Catholic Retrieval
We seek wisdom through careful reception of the historical deposit of the faith believed by the Church through the ages, not as a reductive “mere Christianity” but as consensus and respected tradition especially reflected in the ecumenical creeds and councils of the Early Church, and as reaffirmed by the Reformation traditions
View research supervisors available through this partnership and the areas of research they cover.
Students should contact supervisors directly for further information.
All prospective students seeking to apply to the Alexandrian Institute PhD Program must undertake a 4-month PhD Proposal Mentorship Program. Designed to help students develop a compelling and academically rigorous research proposal, the program offers one-on-one mentorship, reading groups, and formation in research methods and the theological vision for scholarship of the Alexandrian Institute.
At the program’s conclusion, students submit a complete doctoral research proposal to the TAI Research Board for review. Successful candidates are then referred to Union Theological College for full admission to the PhD degree program.
Students seeking to use the PhD Proposal Mentorship Program for development of a research proposal for submission to a different PhD program, or to apply to other institutions, are welcome to join this program.
Duration: 4 months (offered each Spring and Autumn semester)
Cost: USD $6,000 (50% applied toward first-year PhD tuition upon acceptance)
Entry Points: January and September each year
Learning Format: Fully online, globally accessible
Level 7 masters degree with 2.1 hons (3.5 GPA)
Research language proficiency (if applicable)
English Language Competency