Events for April 17 - February 12

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology

Online with Zoom

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This modules forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Andrew Stobart Date: Wednesdays 23rd Sept to 25th Nov 2020, 3–5pm This postgraduate module will introduce students to a rigorous and critical study of these key aspects of the spirituality and theology of the Wesleyan tradition. In particular, it will help students connect traditional Methodist emphases with contemporary issues of faith and ethics. The Wesleyan family of churches is one of the most widely-spread Christian traditions. About 80 million [...]

Theology and Practice of Mission

Online with Zoom

Theology and Practice of Mission Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This module forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Muthuraj Swamy Dates: Tuesdays 29th Sep­–1st Dec 2020, 10am-12pm The postgraduate module focuses on understandings of missiology in key historical and contemporary contexts. It aims to provide an understanding of missiology as a theological discipline. Topics studied include scriptural interpretations of mission, how these lay foundations for diverse and shifting models of mission within the Patristic and modern periods, and contrasting theologies of home and overseas mission. Students [...]

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology

Online with Zoom

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This modules forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Andrew Stobart Date: Wednesdays 23rd Sept to 25th Nov 2020, 3–5pm This postgraduate module will introduce students to a rigorous and critical study of these key aspects of the spirituality and theology of the Wesleyan tradition. In particular, it will help students connect traditional Methodist emphases with contemporary issues of faith and ethics. The Wesleyan family of churches is one of the most widely-spread Christian traditions. About 80 million [...]

Mystery of Love

Online with Zoom

Mystery of Love Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This module forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Christoph Schneider Date: Thursdays 1st Oct–3rd Dec 2020, 3–5.30pm This ecumenical postgraduate module analyses some of the most sophisticated critiques of Christian love and explores how theology can respond. It investigates the philosophical and theological features of love from the pre-Christian era up to the twenty-first century. The module will explore the relationship between agapē, erōs and philia, how Christian theology deals with the tension between preferential love (erotic love, [...]

MBIT discussion group for conference: Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives (with Notre Dame University)

Online with Zoom

MBIT discussion group for conference: Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological Perspectives (with Notre Dame University) What is the role of the desire of/for God in art and aesthetic experience from a phenomenological perspective? The phenomenological tradition is arguably marked by two distinct turns: to the aesthetic and, more recently, to the theological, both of which seek to negotiate the relationship between the subject and its correlate, whether objective or not. Desire for both turns is instrumental in the reconciliation of these two poles. The shape that desire takes determines the manner by which God or the Absolute figures into the analysis. The recent debates concerning the [...]

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Study Day: Praying with Julian of Norwich

Online with Zoom

This one-day course will introduce offer students to Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love. It will set her Revelations in their historical context and invite students to engage prayerful with her book.

£45.00

Theology and Practice of Mission

Online with Zoom

Theology and Practice of Mission Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This module forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Muthuraj Swamy Dates: Tuesdays 29th Sep­–1st Dec 2020, 10am-12pm The postgraduate module focuses on understandings of missiology in key historical and contemporary contexts. It aims to provide an understanding of missiology as a theological discipline. Topics studied include scriptural interpretations of mission, how these lay foundations for diverse and shifting models of mission within the Patristic and modern periods, and contrasting theologies of home and overseas mission. Students [...]

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology

Online with Zoom

Wesleyan Spirituality and Theology Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This modules forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Andrew Stobart Date: Wednesdays 23rd Sept to 25th Nov 2020, 3–5pm This postgraduate module will introduce students to a rigorous and critical study of these key aspects of the spirituality and theology of the Wesleyan tradition. In particular, it will help students connect traditional Methodist emphases with contemporary issues of faith and ethics. The Wesleyan family of churches is one of the most widely-spread Christian traditions. About 80 million [...]

Module 1 (Online): Called To Participate

Online with Zoom

Module 1 (Online) Called to Participate This course will explore through theory and practical workshops how we fulfil our baptismal vocation to join in the priestly, prophetic and kingly mission of Christ by our participation in the Paschal Mystery through the liturgy of the Church. Course Leader: Sue Price and team Dates: Thursday afternoons, 8th–29th October 2020, 2–5.30pm. Evening Liturgy 6pm Contact Us About This Event Add Event To Your Calendar

Mystery of Love

Online with Zoom

Mystery of Love Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This module forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Christoph Schneider Date: Thursdays 1st Oct–3rd Dec 2020, 3–5.30pm This ecumenical postgraduate module analyses some of the most sophisticated critiques of Christian love and explores how theology can respond. It investigates the philosophical and theological features of love from the pre-Christian era up to the twenty-first century. The module will explore the relationship between agapē, erōs and philia, how Christian theology deals with the tension between preferential love (erotic love, [...]

Study Day: Women in leadership: Scriptures, Saints and Contemporary Praxis

Online with Zoom

Study Day: Women in leadership: Scriptures, Saints and Contemporary Praxis We shall be exploring scripts, modelling and framing of women in different historical moments captured in the ‘male gaze’ in the Christian Scriptures, ecclesiology, and in our current location emerging from Covid 19. We will ask whether there are particular themes which emerge from the different forms of leadership which is revealed which can inform creative empowerment for women in church and public life today. Bring your questions, your case histories, your bibles and your full selves to a highly interactive and Socratian interactive day of engagement and development. Course Leader: [...]

£45.00

Theology and Practice of Mission

Online with Zoom

Theology and Practice of Mission Online Synchronous (10 weeks) This module forms part of the ARU MAs and are open to all MA students as part of their degree. Course Leader: Dr Muthuraj Swamy Dates: Tuesdays 29th Sep­–1st Dec 2020, 10am-12pm The postgraduate module focuses on understandings of missiology in key historical and contemporary contexts. It aims to provide an understanding of missiology as a theological discipline. Topics studied include scriptural interpretations of mission, how these lay foundations for diverse and shifting models of mission within the Patristic and modern periods, and contrasting theologies of home and overseas mission. Students [...]