If you have successfully completed an MA thesis, you must submit a final copy to the Souvay Memorial Library.
- Format your thesis for a 1.5-inch left-hand margin and 1-inch margins at the top, bottom, and right. The font should be a standard serif font (e.g. Times New Roman, Garamond, etc.), type 12 for the main body and type 10 for the footnotes.
- Whichever citation style you use (e.g., Turabian, MLA, Chicago), please be consistent in using the same style across your thesis.
- Your thesis should start with a title page that includes the following information arranged vertically in this order (see example title page below for a visual representation):
- Name of the seminary (Kenrick-Glennon Seminary) near the top of the page.
- Thesis title toward the middle of the page.
- Statement of submission, which should read in its entirety for an MA thesis: “A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Kenrick School of Theology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.”
- For an STB thesis, the submission statement should instead read: “A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Kenrick School of Theology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology.”
- Statement of authorship (“By Rev. Mr. John Doe”).
- Your home diocese.
- Identify your adviser.
- Identify your secondary reader.
- Location (St. Louis, Missouri).
- Date of formal submission.
- If your thesis includes chapters or subdivisions, it must include a table of contents. Chapters should have titles, and those titles should appear in the table of contents as well.
- Include an abstract of your thesis, which should appear somewhere between the title page and the table of contents. The abstract is a short summary of the thesis and its arguments, no more than about 250 words.
- Email an electronic copy of your thesis in Microsoft Word to library@kenrick.edu.
- Once all revisions have been confirmed, the library will retain a PDF copy for the seminary's records. The library will also produce a hard copy of each thesis, which will be kept in the thesis shelves on the library's top floor in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.
