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FACULT Y OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
CHRISTIAN
THEOLOGY
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Christian Theology Fact File
Faculty:
Arts and Humanities
Department
:Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Campus Location:
Hope Park
Entry Requirements:
The standard offer level is between 260-300 UCAS points, including a minimum of two A/A2 Levels or equivalent.
Duration
:
Three years
Degree:
Combined Honours Only
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• Philosophy, Ethics & Religion • Theology • World Religions
Contact Details:
Student Recruitment +44 (0) 151 291 3111 enquiry@hope.ac.uk Course Combinations:Christian Theology & Childhood and Youth UCAS code LV96 Christian Theology & Education UCAS code VX61 Christian Theology & English Literature UCAS code VQ36
Christian Theology & History UCAS code VV61
Christian Theology & Law UCAS code VM61
Christian Theology & Media and Communication UCAS code VP6H Christian Theology & Philosophy and Ethics UCAS code VV6N
Christian Theology & Politics UCAS code VL26
Christian Theology & Psychology UCAS code VC68 Christian Theology & Social Policy UCAS code VL64 Christian Theology & Special Educational Needs UCAS code VX64 Christian Theology & World Religions UCAS code VV62 It is also available to study with Primary Teaching Honours degree (BA QTS), UCAS code XV61.
All Combined Honours result in a BA degree.
3 Across 2,000 years the Christian tradition has engendered an immense wealth of theological ideas, has adapted itself to many cultural forms and has shaped human minds and events. This programme offers the opportunity to study Christianity from a number of perspectives – historical, doctrinal, pastoral and contextual – so that you will acquire expertise in finding your way through this complex and rich field of study.
The course embodies Liverpool Hope’s commitment to take faith seriously and at the same time to be intellectually stretching, stimulating and challenging. The teaching staff represent a broad range of Christian traditions, and the students, too, are drawn from across the spectrum of faiths. Their work together puts into practice Hope’s vision of a university community that is fully Anglican, fully Catholic, fully ecumenical, fully open to those of all faiths and beliefs.
Course Introduction
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Level C (Year One)
• Lecture Series
• Christian Theology to 1453 • Seminars:
• Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople: Christian Theology to 1453
• Developments in World Christianity to 1453
Assessed work: symbolic analysis, presentation, theological portfolio, one essay, one exam.
Level I (Year Two)
• Lecture Series
• Christian Theology from the Fall of Constantinople to 1900
• Seminars:
• The Reformation period to 1700 • Christianity encounters the Modern World.
Assessed work: two essays, theological portfolio, one exam.
What you will study
Level H (Year Three)
Christian Theology in a Century of Conflict (1900-present day):
Lecture series in Systematic and Contextual Theology, and in Pastoral Theology and Christian Spirituality are accompanied by a choice of seminars in an area of Systematic or Contextual Theology, and an area of Pastoral Theology or Christian Spirituality. Assessed work: two essays, one exam, extended research project.
5 As a graduate in Christian Theology, you will have developed excellent skills in critical thinking, which are highly prized by employers. You will be competent in textual analysis, report writing and have high-level oral communication skills. You will have an in-depth knowledge of Christianity, a capacity to work with primary texts and an ability to empathise with and understand different points of view. This prepares you for a range of careers including law, media, public administration, social and community work. Many graduates enter the teaching profession, and you will be well positioned to pursue postgraduate study in theology and related humanities subjects. More broadly, it equips you with the intellectual skills and perspectives needed for facing the ethical and ideological challenges of the contemporary world.
Employability and Career Opportunities
Current postgraduate courses offered by Liverpool Hope include:• MA Biblical and Pastoral Theology • PG Cert Biblical Studies
• PG Cert Jewish Studies
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active researchers, publishing books and articles on a variety of areas such world religions, biblical studies, Church history, liturgical theology and contextual and systematic theology.
Why study this subject at Liverpool Hope?
• The content of their teaching often draws upon their research work which means that students are exposed to the most recent developments in the field. The third year of study is designed to engage students with the cutting-edge research carried out in the department.
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Graduate Profiles
Ann O’Neill, BA Philosophy and
Ethics and Religious Studies
“A number of mature students I know who graduated from Hope had told me that it had been the best experience of their lives. So I came to the open days, and then decided to register. What made my experience special was the subject knowledge, support and total commitment of the Department’s staff – their doors were always open to students. Everything contributed to the experience: the library, the mix of age, gender and ethnic background in the student group, the campus, the work I did as a peer writing tutor while I was here. Now I work for the Archdiocese of Liverpool as a parish administrator.”
James Proctor, BA Theology and
Religious Studies
“Liverpool Hope University won my heart and mind when I arrived. I was drawn to Hope’s welcoming academic environment, its status as a highly regarded theological institution, and the opportunity to study in an ecumenical environment. I am currently an administrator on a support network project at Hope as well as working in retail. Studying at Liverpool Hope was the right choice for me.”
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Academic Staff Profiles
Professor Daniel
Jeyaraj, Professor of
World Christianity and
Director of the
Andrew F. Walls Centre
Professor Jeyaraj, a South Indian theologian, is Professor of World Christianity and directs the activities of the Andrew Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity. His areas of expertise include Christian-Hindu
interactions in 18th Century South India and Germany, the formation and growth of Indian Christianity in the Indian Sub-Continent. He has published eight monographs and over 60 research articles.
Dr Gergely Juhász,
Lecturer
Dr Juhász holds a PhD in Theology (New Testament) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium). His main areas of expertise are early modern bible translation, afterlife beliefs and biblical anthropology. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the Protestant bible translator George Joye. He has published in English, Dutch and Hungarian in books and peer-reviewed journals. His book on the exegetical debate between William Tyndale and George Joye entitled Translating Resurrection has been accepted for publication.
Dr Dominika
Kurek-Chomycz,
Lecturer
Dr Kurek-Chomycz is a Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Liverpool Hope University and a free research associate at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Her research interests centre upon the New Testament and other early Christian writings, with a particular focus on various issues in the Pauline literature. Dr Kurek-Chomycz has published a number of articles in international journals and edited volumes, is a co-author of 2
Corinthians: A Bibliography (Peeters, 2008) and co-editor of Theologizing in the
Corinthian Conflict: Studies in Exegesis and Theology of 2 Corinthians (Peeters: 2013).
Dr Peter McGrail,
Associate Professor
and Deputy Head
of Department
Dr McGrail’s research area is Christian worship and ritual, with a special focus on Roman Catholicism. He has published widely on the subject, with two monographs, First Communion: Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity (Ashgate 2007) and The Exaggeration of Liturgists? Rites of Adult Initiation and Roman Catholic Ecclesiology
(Ashgate, 2013). He is Director of the Liverpool Hope Institute of Pastoral Theology.
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Dr Simon D. Podmore,
British Academy Post
Doctoral Fellow
Dr Podmore’s main interests are in systematic and philosophical theology: particularly Kierkegaard; Luther; the numinous and religious
experience; Jewish and Christian mysticism; Holocaust theology; continental philosophy of religion; and the relationships between theology, the arts, and psychotherapy. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press, 2011).
Dr Marco Settembrini,
Visiting Professor
Dr Settembrini holds a doctorate in Biblical Studies from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He is professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at the Facoltà Teologica dell’Emilia-Romagna (Bologna, Italy) and Visiting Professor in Biblical Studies at Liverpool Hope University. His expertise lies in Ancient Jewish Apocalypticism, the Pentateuch and the Septuagint. His publications include, among others, a monograph on Daniel 7-12 (Rome, 2007) and an introduction to the study of the Pentateuch (Cinisello Balsamo, 2012).
Dom Henry
Wansbrough,
Alexander Jones
Professor In
Biblical Studies
Dom Henry is a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Ampleforth. Prior to his appointment at Liverpool Hope he was for 14 years Master of St Benet’s Hall in Oxford; he lectured on New Testament at the University and served as Chair of the Theology Faculty. During his career, he has written 20 books and more than 60 articles.
Professor Andrew
Walls, Professor
Of The History
Of Missions
Professor Walls began service in West Africa in 1957, working at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, and at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he was Head of the Department of Religion. For many years he was Professor of Religious Studies and Riddoch Lecturer in
Comparative Religion at the University of Aberdeen, before becoming founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh. He has been Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Yale and at Harvard Universities. His best known publications include The Missionary Movement in Christian History (Orbis, 1996) and The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History (Orbis, 2002).
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