The Seminary's grant research profile has grown while focusing on a number of strategically important fields of study. Use the interactive directory below to learn more about research projects.
- January 2021
In collaboration with Calvin University, Professor Afe Adogame is leading a project to support African theologians to engage in fresh social scientific integrated approaches in grounded theology, with the goal of producing creative and original projects. This project is an attempt at realizing the potential of theological creativity from the bottom up, as opposed to the top down. The work will include early career African theologians with compelling research ideas to work on three years of research and curricular development.
PROJECT LEADER
Afe Adogame, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society
- September 2020
Under the leadership of Rev. Joanne Rodriguez, Hispanic Theological Initiative director, this project aims to strengthen and advance an online, peer-reviewed bilingual presence for articles and book reviews of Latinx scholars.
LEADER
Joanne Rodriguez, Director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative
- January 2020
In collaboration with Canisius College, Professor Afe Adogame is helping to conduct the first comprehensive, comparative, and empirical study of huge megachurches in the global south with congregations of over 15,000 members each. The project focuses on churches in 10 countries — Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea. Seven Regional Project Leaders (RPL), each having a sub-grant from Canisius, will form research teams and focus on specific areas.
REGIONAL PROJECT LEADER
Afe Adogame, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society
- December 2017
Now nearing its conclusion, Sustaining the Preaching Life is led by Professor Nancy Lammers Gross. It aims to support and resource the continuing development of preachers in a peer-learning environment.
DIRECTOR
Nancy Lammers Gross, Arthur Sarrell Rudd Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry
- November 2017
The name of this project is derived from Proverbs 27:17. Dr. Anne Stewart, project leader, and her team seek ways to strengthen pastoral leaders and congregations, building on the value of cohort learning groups and the Seminary’s residential model of education. Peer learning groups of women clergy are organized and equipped with the capacities, agency, and savvy to negotiate challenging leadership contexts with a confidence that is born of competence.
PROJECT LEADER
Anne Stewart, Vice President for External Relations
- November 2016
In 2017, the Lilly Endowment launched its Young Adult Innovation Hub Initiative. Princeton Theological Seminary proposed a project to empower congregations to build relationships with young adults and nurture their religious lives — especially by learning from and supporting young adults in various “domains” where they find meaning, purpose, and belonging in their communities outside of churches, and by ferreting out the implicit theological issues that undergird young adults’ involvement in these domains. The Zoe Project gathers 12 congregations into a community of practice to explore, experiment with, and share their experiences as each church launches its own Zoe Project to build relationships with young adults and support young adults’ religious lives through one particular domain in their community.
PROJECT LEADER
Kenda Creasy Dean, Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture
“To be in a community where I got to hear so many different perspectives—that was profound for me. I’m grateful for the curiosity, for the practice of learning that was cultivated for me at Seminary.”