Taught course
Christian Theology
Entry requirements
Months of entry
September
Course content
This course involves the study of historical and systematic theology from a range of Christian perspectives. Durham has long-established strengths in both Greek and Latin patristics, the medieval Church and Reformation, contemporary Catholic and Anglican theology, theological ethics, and philosophical theology.
Course Structure- Classic Texts in Christian Theology - core module
- Three option modules
- Dissertation.
Core modules:
- Classic Texts in Christian Theology
- Dissertation.
Examples of optional modules:
Optional modules in previous years have included 2-3 choices from:
- Paul and his Interpreters
- Gospels and Canon
- The Bible and Hermeneutics
- Patristic Ecclesiology
- Christian Northumbria 600-750
- England's Religious Revolution 1640-1660
- The Anglican Theologyin Context
- Liturgy and Sacramentality
- Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism
- Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology
- Christian Gender
- Principles of Theological Ethics
- The Thought of Thomas Aquinas in Context
- Religion in the Neo-Liberal Age
- Christianity in the Second Century
- Faith and Reason
- World and Image
- Christian Fundamentalism and the Modern World
- High Medieval Franciscan Theology
- Theology, Nature and Environment
- Social Scientific Methods in the Study of Religion
- Ritual, Symbolism and Belief in the Anthropology of Religion
- Literature and Religion
- Catholic Social Thought
- Ecclesiology and Ethnography
- Doctrine of Creation
Plus up to 1 choice from:
- Advanced Hebrew Texts
- Advanced Aramaic
- Middle Egyptian
- Introductory to New Testament Greek
- Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament
- Selected modules from the MA in Theology and Ministry course
- Level 3 undergraduate module, or any Level 1 – 2 language module offered by the Department of Theology and Religion, taken in conjunction with the designated Extended Study in Theology & Religion module
- 30 credits from another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the University’s Centre for Foreign Language Study).
Information for international students
If you are an international student who does not meet the requirements for direct entry to this degree, you may be eligible to take a pre-Masters pathway programme at the Durham University International Study Centre.
Fees and funding
UK students
TBC
International students
TBC
For further information see the course listing.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MA
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time24 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
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