Baccalaureate in Religious Sciences | St. Peter's Pontifical Institute

Director: Rev. Dr Bruno John Baptist, OMI

St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute, Bangalore is happy to announce that from June 2022, the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in our Institute will start functioning and will offer to the Laity and the Religious Brothers and Sisters Baccalaureate in Religious Sciences (BRS) and License in Religious Sciences (LRS).

Degree, Duration and Eligibility

Degrees	Eligibility	Duration
Baccalaureate in Religious Sciences (BRS)	Pre-University/Higher Secondary school certificate or its equivalent	Six semesters (3 years)
License in Religious Sciences (LRS)	A canonically valid Baccalaureate in Religious Sciences	four Semesters (2 years)

Objectives

These courses of studies have four primary goals:

To prepare the laity and of those in consecrated life to participate in the task of evangelization of the secular world in which they live.
To prepare candidates to take up professional duties in ecclesial life and in the installation of a Christian sensibility in society.
To prepare candidates for the many diverse lay ministries and services to the Church.
To prepare teachers of religion for all school levels below the university level.

Higher Institute of Religious Sciences at St Peter’s Pontifical Institute is committed to make decisive contribution to the Church in India and uphold the living Tradition of the Church by giving a solid Theological, Spiritual and Missionary formation to the faithful – Lay and Religious to be able to help the Laity and the Religious brothers and sisters to carry forward the mission of Christ.

Hence, may we avail of this opportunity to request you to send your candidates to pursue their studies at St Peter’s Pontifical Institute.

For Further Details & Registration

Rev. Dr Registrar

St Peter’s Pontifical Institute

8th main 18th Cross Malleswaram, Bangalore – 560 055

stpetersinstitute@gmail.com; 080-23315172; 7996342522, 9481846314, 7899891378

N.B.

Scholarship and Residence accommodation are available for all deserving students. A separate newly constructed Residence for Religious Women is also available.

COURSES	No. of
HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY	22 ECTS
1. Ancient Greek Philosophy	4
2. Medieval Philosophy	4
3. Modern Philosophy	4
4. Contemporary Western Philosophy	4
5. Existentialism	2
6. Phenomenology	2
7. Post-Modernism	2

SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY	35 ECTS
1. Introduction to Philosophy	2
2. Philosophy of Being (Metaphysics)	4
3. Philosophy of God	3
4. Philosophy of Human Person	4
5. Logic	4
6. Ethics & Moral Philosophy	4
7. Epistemology (Philosophy of Knowledge)	3
8. Philosophical Hermeneutics	3
9. Political Philosophy	3
10. Philosophy of Nature	3
11. Social Philosophy (Social Ontology)	2

BIBLICAL STUDIES	22 ECTS
1. Introduction to Sacred Scripture and Biblical Hermeneutics	2
2. Introduction to the Pentateuch	2
3. Historical Books	2
4. Prophets	3
5. Infancy and Passion Narratives	2
6. Synoptic Gospels	2
7. Parable and Miracles	2
8. Johannine Gospel	2
9. Acts of the Apostles	1
10. Pauline Corpus	3
11. Book of Revelation	1

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY	27 ECTS
1. Introduction to Theology	1
2. Theology of Revelation	2
3. Theology of Faith	1
4. Christology	3
5. Eschatology	2
6. Trinity	2
7. Grace and Pneumatology	3
8. Ecclesiology	3
9. Theology of Eucharist	3
10. Mariology	2
11. Theology of the Laity	1
12. Feminist Theology	2
13. Theology of Religious Life	2

MORAL THEOLOGY	17 ECTS
1. Fundamental Moral Theology	2
2. I, II, III, IV, VIII Commandments	3
3. Virtues	2
4. Marriage: Theological & Moral Aspects	2
5. Social Justice	2
6. Reconciliation	2
7. Sexual Ethics	2
8. Bio-Ethics	2
CANON LAW	6 ECTS
1. History of Canon Law and General Norms	2
2. People of God	2
3. Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic	Life 2
LITURGY AND CATECHETICS	10 ECTS
1. Liturgical Year and Liturgy of Hours	2
2. Liturgy of Sacraments in General	2
3. Christian Initiation	4
4. Catechetics	2
CHURCH HISTORY AND PATROLOGY	8 ECTS
1. From Christian Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (1 – 1073 A.D.)	2
2. The Middle Ages	2
3. Modern and Contemporary Times	2
4. Patrology	2
MISSIOLOGY	6 ECTS
1. Introduction to Missiology	2
2. Theology of Mission as Dialogue	2
3. The Challenges in the Field of Evangelization	2

MORAL THEOLOGY	17 ECTS
1. Fundamental Moral Theology	2
2. I, II, III, IV, VIII Commandments	3
3. Virtues	2
4. Marriage: Theological & Moral Aspects	2
5. Social Justice	2
6. Reconciliation	2
7. Sexual Ethics	2
8. Bio-Ethics	2
CANON LAW	6 ECTS
1. History of Canon Law and General Norms	2
2. People of God	2
3. Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic	Life 2
LITURGY AND CATECHETICS	10 ECTS
1. Liturgical Year and Liturgy of Hours	2
2. Liturgy of Sacraments in General	2
3. Christian Initiation	4
4. Catechetics	2
CHURCH HISTORY AND PATROLOGY	8 ECTS
1. From Christian Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (1 – 1073 A.D.)	2
2. The Middle Ages	2
3. Modern and Contemporary Times	2
4. Patrology	2
MISSIOLOGY	6 ECTS
1. Introduction to Missiology	2
2. Theology of Mission as Dialogue	2
3. The Challenges in the Field of Evangelization	2

SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY	6 ECTS
Introduction to Spiritual Theology	2
Consecrated Life & Ascetical Theology	2
Pastoral Theology	2

SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY	2 ECTS
1. Scientific Methodology & Research	2
HUMAN SCIENCES	4 ECTS
1. Indian Constitution	2
2. Accountancy	2
OTHER REQUIREMENTS	16 ECTS
1. Dissertation	6
2. Comprehensive Examination	10

St Peter's Pontifical Institute

Bangalore, India

Objectives

These courses of studies have four primary goals: