Events for January 18 - 10 June 2023

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 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, [...]

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 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 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, [...]