MA Theology And Religion

Deepen your knowledge of the subject of theology and religion and develop the necessary skills for further research.

The MA in Theology and Religion serves both the specific needs of those focussed on progressing towards doctoral research and also of those looking to continue relatively broad-based postgraduate studies in Theology and Religion, forexample in support of a career in teaching.

• Choice of one of the three core modules
• Three optional modules
• Dissertation.

Core modules:

One of the following:

• Paul and His Interpreters (or an alternative module in Biblical Studies in some years)
• Classic Texts in Christian Theology
• Social Scientific Methods in the Study of Religion

Plus a Dissertation.

Examples of optional modules:

Optional modules in previous years have included 2-3 choices from:

• Advanced Hebrew Texts
• Advanced Aramaic
• Middle Egyptian
• The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament
• The Bible and Hermeneutics
• Paul and his Interpreters
• Gospels and Canon
• Patristic Exegesis
• Patristic Ecclesiology
• Christian Northumbria 600-750
• England’s Religious Revolution 1640-1660
• Liturgy and Sacramentality
• Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism
• Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology
• Christian Gender
• Principles of Theological Ethics
• Theology, Ethics and Medicine
• Ritual, Symbolism and Belief in the Anthropology of Religion
• Literature and Religion
• Catholic Social Thought
• Ecclesiology and Ethnography
• Doctrine of Creation
• Religion in the Neo-Liberal Age
• The Thought of Thomas Aquinas in Context

Plus up to 1 choice from:

• Selected modules from the MA in Theology and Ministry
• 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).