Theology and Ministry

Entry requirements

For the MA, the entrance requirement is either a BA in Theology or Religious Studies or a related subject, or a BA in another discipline with experience of Theology or Religious Studies to at least HE Certificate level.

If you don’t meet the above requirements but do have relevant experience, training, or unaccredited study, we’d still love to hear from you as it may be possible to admit you to the Postgraduate Certificate. Please contact us to discuss, as we apply for university approval on a case-by-case basis.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This integration is the hallmark of all of our modules, and is exemplified in our programme’s core module, Theological and Practical Reflection on Mission & Ministry. Here students explore Practical Theology, an approach to theology that seeks to take practice and experience seriously, both as a context for the development of new insight and faithful response in light of Scripture and tradition, and as a source of new questions to bring to Scripture and tradition.

This approach engages the whole range of theological sub-disciplines and can sometimes also be interdisciplinary in its engagement of social scientific or other academic disciplines. Above all, it reflects a desire to live faithfully in the light of rigorous and prayerful thinking.

You will gain the MA in Theology and Ministry by completing the core module, three optional taught modules and a dissertation (total 180 credits). The following modules are validated for the MA in Theology and Ministry but, as modules are usually taught on a bi-annual basis, we cannot guarantee the running of certain modules during a course of study.

Year 1 modules

· Theological and Practical Reflection on Mission & Ministry (core module)

· Preaching from the Old Testament

· Mission and Ministry in the Acts of the Apostles

· The History and Theology of the Charismatic Movement

· Intellect and Imagination: Apologetics in the Mass Media

· Psychology and Christian Ministry

· Preaching from the New Testament

· Leadership in Christian Ministry

· Theological Approaches to Spiritual Direction

· Mission and Ecclesiology: Critical Frameworks for Pioneering

· Forgiveness and Pastoral Ministry Today

· Advanced Old Testament Studies

· Mission and Ministry in the Johannine Literature

· Early Christian Perspectives on Mission and Ministry

· Christian Doctrine in the Life of the Church

· Advanced New Testament Studies

· The Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Context