Mission Statement

MISSION STATEMENT

The Divine Word Seminary (DWS) aims to provide a program of theological education and pastoral training for all qualified students ecclesiastical, religious and lay, male and female. The program of DWS aims to provide the necessary intellectual, spiritual, pastoral, and intercultural training. Furthermore, it is designed to foster in the student, both individually and as a member of a community and of society in general the appropriate knowledge, commitments and attitudes, behavior and skills. DWS considers as its important task to help the student to be firmly rooted in the tradition of the church. The school, likewise, aims to facilitate the student’s understanding and interpretation of that tradition as well as its translation and communication in order that the formation of persons and societies be accomplished according to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In the light of its special missionary orientation, DWS’s theological program is characterized by a particular sensitivity to and appreciation of religious and cultural pluralism, intercultural communication, contextualization of theology and preferential option for the poor.