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[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Nah. A love offering will suffice.

Checks in the mail!! LOL!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Checks in the mail!! LOL!

[Baron1710]

Prax,

I just received an email Pieter F. Craffert chair of the department of New Testament and Early Christian studies.

"[The PhD] is a fully researched degree, and access is dependent on a research masters degree."

It is clear no classes were taken.

[Baron1710]

It appears from what he sent that they assign you the topic.

Below is a portion of a 7 page attachment detailing the research procjects:


1. Family as strategy in Roman Empire and early Christianity

Duration: 2008 – 2010
Activities: complete manuscript in 2010
Outcomes: publication of 2009 symposium articles

2. Christianity, illness, health, healing: historical, theological, cross-cultural and biopsychosocial perspectives

Duration: 2009 – 2011
Activities: 2010: Papers at departmental research seminar
2011: Third Unisa Symposium of New Testament and Early Christian Studies

3. Cultural Complexity: Communication, Memory and Identity in Early Christianity

Duration: 2010 – 2012
Activities: 6-8 Oct 2010: Second Unisa Symposium of New Testament and Early Christian Studies (in co-operation with the research project Jesus in cultural complexity, Oslo, Norway).
2011: Seminar in Oslo (Norway)
Outcomes: 2011: publication of 2010 symposium articles

4. Self-reflexivity: New Testament and Early Christian Studies as an academic discipline
Duration: 2010 – 2012
Activities:
2010: 6-9 April Conference: Claiming Conceptual Space. Reimagining the Study of Religion and Theology: Changing Contexts and Social Discourses (Co-hosted by the Research Division of the Hugeunot College and the Society for the Study of Religion and Theology), Wellington
2011: Departmental research day: Exploring the academic study of the New Testament and Early Christian Studies: seminary or university?
Outcomes: 2011: publication of 2010 symposium articles

5. Christianity in South Africa and the moral fibre of society

Duration: 2011 – 2014
Activities:



I am going to stick with my earlier assessment of, "Write a paper get a degree."

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

It appears from what he sent that they assign you the topic.

Below is a portion of a 7 page attachment detailing the research procjects:


1. Family as strategy in Roman Empire and early Christianity

Duration: 2008 – 2010
Activities: complete manuscript in 2010
Outcomes: publication of 2009 symposium articles

2. Christianity, illness, health, healing: historical, theological, cross-cultural and biopsychosocial perspectives

Duration: 2009 – 2011
Activities: 2010: Papers at departmental research seminar
2011: Third Unisa Symposium of New Testament and Early Christian Studies

3. Cultural Complexity: Communication, Memory and Identity in Early Christianity

Duration: 2010 – 2012
Activities: 6-8 Oct 2010: Second Unisa Symposium of New Testament and Early Christian Studies (in co-operation with the research project Jesus in cultural complexity, Oslo, Norway).
2011: Seminar in Oslo (Norway)
Outcomes: 2011: publication of 2010 symposium articles

4. Self-reflexivity: New Testament and Early Christian Studies as an academic discipline
Duration: 2010 – 2012
Activities:
2010: 6-9 April Conference: Claiming Conceptual Space. Reimagining the Study of Religion and Theology: Changing Contexts and Social Discourses (Co-hosted by the Research Division of the Hugeunot College and the Society for the Study of Religion and Theology), Wellington
2011: Departmental research day: Exploring the academic study of the New Testament and Early Christian Studies: seminary or university?
Outcomes: 2011: publication of 2010 symposium articles

5. Christianity in South Africa and the moral fibre of society

Duration: 2011 – 2014
Activities:



I am going to stick with my earlier assessment of, "Write a paper get a degree."

Write a research paper .... get a doctorate .... awesome.

I know a place in New Jersey that'll write it for you.

I understand some professors and others working on doctorates sometimes will hire a researcher, also

[revrandy]

Another discredit, cheap pot-shot thread....seems like the bottom of the barrel gets stirred up around here more and more....

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by revrandy

Another discredit, cheap pot-shot thread....seems like the bottom of the barrel gets stirred up around here more and more....

Nice to see you here at the bottom of the barrel...welcome.

[seguidordejesus]

Baron, many universities in other countries such as Australia, Netherlands, UK, etc do not require "classes" for doctorates. That certainly does not mean they are less difficult. Check out Leiden University's PhD programs in the Netherlands - that's certainly not a fly-by-night school.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus

Baron, many universities in other countries such as Australia, Netherlands, UK, etc do not require "classes" for doctorates. That certainly does not mean they are less difficult. Check out Leiden University's PhD programs in the Netherlands - that's certainly not a fly-by-night school.

This has been brought up ...

[DAII]

Originally Posted by DAII

This has been brought up ...

However, many times the paper is defended and presented to a panel of academics.