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Introduction to the Foundation
The Graduate Theological Foundation is a learned society of ministry professionals committed to continuing professional education. The Foundation is committed to the wide range of traditional and emerging forms of ministry in faith communities in their quest for deeper senses of unity both among themselves and in their developing relations with other religious traditions and secular society.
Being a society of learning, the Foundation stresses its character as a gathering of dedicated people in a community of colleagues seeking to learn together through the sharing of professional and vocational experience, insight and reflective knowledge. The Foundation is international in scope and fully ecumenical in purpose, open to members of all religious communities and secular society as well.
The essential work of the Foundation is carried out through its several educational degree programs and publication series. All educational degree programs are designed for advanced learning that is self-improving and motivational in nature for fully credentialed professionals in ministry whose common concern is the development of leadership for religious congregations and faith communities. A ministry professional, whether clergy, religious, or laity, is one who is engaged in an educational, pastoral, counseling, or health-related vocation and is licensed, certified, or credentialed appropriate to the respective field of professional activity.
Foundation publications similarly reflect the commitment to ministry, principally through the Oxford Theology Monograph, a collection of course-related essays written by the faculty of the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology, and Foundation Theology, an annual collection of essays by the faculty and students of the Foundation.