0Department of Religions and Theology
Modules on Offer in 2015/16 to Visiting Students
Junior Freshman
1. Introduction to World Religions
A: Approaches to the study of religions (5 credits)
B: World Religions (5 credits)
2. Introduction to biblical studies
A: Introduction to Jewish origins and the Hebrew Bible: texts and contexts (5
credits)
B: Introduction to the New Testament: texts and contexts (5 credits)
3. Introduction to theology
A: Eras and classical authors in the history of Christian thinking (5 credits)
B: Key themes in theology (5 credits)
4. The 'Abrahamic Faiths' in their history of reception
A: Biblical traditions in Western art and culture (5 credits)
B: The Qur'an and its history of reception (5 credits)
5. Religions in history
A: Religions in the ancient Mediterranean (5 credits)
B: History of religions (5 credits)
6. Introduction to philosophy and to theological ethics
A: Introduction to philosophy (5 credits)
B: Introduction to theological ethics (5 credits)
Senior Freshman and Junior Sophisters
1. New Testament
A: Literary and historical approaches to the Gospels (5 credits)
B: The Johannine Writings (5 credits)
2. Systematic theology in the movements of Western thinking
A: Christology (5 credits)
B: Hermeneutics (5 credits)
3. Theological ethics
A: Ethics, philosophical and theological (5 credits)
B: Approaches to theological ethics (5 credits)
4. Reaching Modernity: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism
A: Reformation and Enlightenment (5 credits)
B: Current expressions and movements in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism (5
credits)
5. Religious Studies
A: Contemporary theories of religion (5 credits)
B: Religion, media and the public sphere (5 credits)
6. Language offerings
Introduction to Koine Greek (Senior Freshman) (10 credits)
Intermediate Koine Greek (Junior Sophister) (10 credits)
Senior Sophisters
Semester A
Sects and Sages: Dead Sea Scrolls (10 credits)
Theological ethics and ecology (10 credits)
Autonomy and disability, diversity and perfection (10 credits)
Semester B
The sensory Sacred: aesthetic and material approaches to religion (10 credits)
Ethics and politics (10 credits)