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BA (Hons) in Kingdom Theology - Westminster Theological Centre Menu Westminster Theological Centre Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn Vimeo YouTube Instagram Primary Menu Skip to contentWell-nighUs Vision & Values Student Stories Job Vacancies Partners Contact us Study with UsUndertowOfferings CertHE in Kingdom Theology BA (Hons) in Kingdom Theology Graduate Diploma in Kingdom Theology MA in Kingdom Theology Flexi-MA in Kingdom Theology OpenWTC: Living The Christian Story OpenWTC: Spiritually Formed AdmissionsUndertowDeliveryWonkCalendar Bursary Information Fees & FAQs Locations Bristol Cambridge East Sussex East Anglia Hampshire Manchester North East London Northern Ireland South London Stockholm West Midlands News Events Local Kingdom Theology Events 2018 Hub Open Evenings Kingdom Theology Conference 2017 Kingdom Work Conference WTCLive! PeopleSenseStaff Board of Trustees Donate Giving Month Blog Moodle Search Search for: BA (Hons) in Kingdom Theology The part-time BA(Hons) undertow offers a comprehensive and engaging study programme, designed for those seeking unrestrictedness and depth in their theological understanding. The creative and challenging range of modules on the BA will introduce you to wearing whet practices in mission and ministry, and to the riches of the biblical world and denomination history. There is moreover an opportunity for a dissertation in the final year. The BA takes six years to well-constructed and is an platonic way to study for a stratum whilst remaining in work. There are multiple advantages to this. It moreover enables students to wield their learning in the sphere of influence that God has placed them in, whether that is inDenominationleadership, in the workplace, or in the home. Studying part-time moreover ways that students will stave the heavy debts incurred in full-time university education. If a student needs to exit the BA surpassing completion they will receive a Certificate of Higher Education (after two years) or a Diploma of Higher Education (after four years). This undertow is validated by the University of Chester. The BA is a 6-year part time course, with an heady and diverse line-up of modules.UndertowContent Year 1 Modules TH4936: Exploring the Old Testament - Dr Matt Lynch This module introduces students to the diverse literature of the Old Testament, and to vital methods for its interpretation. Students will proceeds skills in biblical exegesis through focussed viewing of key texts. Students will be worldly-wise to wield key Old Testament insights to their life, work, or ministry contexts. TH4929: The New Testament Journey - Dr Erin Heim Introducing students to the first century world in which Jesus lived, died, was resurrected, and in which the denomination began, this module inspires and equips students to engage with scripture afresh. Students will be introduced to a variety of perspectives as they delve into the historical, literary and theological world of the New Testament. They will have the opportunity to explore the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, how New Testament writers understood the Kingdom of God, and what this ways for the trendy church. TH4934: The Drama of Doctrine - Dr Lucy Peppiatt This module explores questions such as, ‘Where do Christian beliefs come from and how do we decide what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ or true or false? What happened in the early denomination without the Bible was written? What place does the denomination have in what we believe and why?’ We explore the foundations of the Christian faith in scripture and the early church, and how those foundations have endured through the ages. Students have the opportunity to reflect on how we describe God, who Jesus is, how the Holy Spirit fits in, and other inside beliefs. In wing to this, we have the opportunity to discuss how these beliefs shape our churches, our identity, our mission, and our practices. TH4932: SpiritualInseminationand Leadership I - Dr Lucy Peppiatt This module combines teaching on spiritual insemination and practical leadership skills and gives a well-rounded and dynamic view of discipleship and leadership in our individual contexts. Students have the opportunity to reflect on their own spiritual insemination and gifting through exploring the spiritual insemination tradition through scripture and the ages. Year 2 Modules TH4933: SpiritualInseminationand Leadership II - Rev Chris Pemberton Following on from Part I in year one, this module develops ideas on how we grow as disciples, ministers, and leaders in all walks of life. From biblical stories and early denomination writings to trendy research, students will explore topics such as mettlesome discipleship, mismatch resolution, and the inner life of a leader. The module combines practical wisdom and insight on the Christian life with reflections on the biblical and theological teaching that underpins it. TH4908: Mission - Dr Bob Ekblad This module brings an empowering and challenging perspective to the questions of how the denomination should be engaging in the undeniability to make disciples of all nations. It integrates deep exploration of Scripture, a snooping for those on the margins, and a living encounter with the Gospel’s power to transform individuals and society. TH4937: Classics of Early Christian Literature - Dr Steve Watts Students are provided with an opportunity to explore the unconfined wealth of literature that emerged during the early centuries of Christianity (ca. 250-800). Students will proceeds an understanding of the significance of variegated literary forms (e.g. sayings, sermons, letters, dialogues, and saints’ lives) while developing the skills to read each text powerfully with reference to its respective literary and historical contexts. TH4935: Faith Seeking Understanding - Dr Lucy Peppiatt This module builds on TH4934 (The Drama of Doctrine) taking students deeper into the study of Christian doctrine and systematic theology. Having begun the study of doctrine in the first year, we are worldly-wise to examine the inside doctrines of the Christian faith in increasingly detail. Students have the opportunity to evaluate Christian systems of weighing in the light of denominational differences, culture, and competing truth claims. Years 3 & 4 Modules TH5904: 18th Century British Revivals - Rev Chris Pemberton Revival is an exhilarating word: it evokes visions of new life, the power of the Spirit, renewal and restoration and the promise of hope. Yet it is a diverse, multifaceted and controversial phenomenon. Against the rich preliminaries of revival in North America and elsewhere we trace the landmark changes in both understanding and practice that took place in the 18th century British church, exploring primary documents of sermons preached and papers written. This is not merely a record of the church’s past but a key to understanding trendy evangelicalism and exploring the possibility of God choosing to work in such a way again. TH5911: John’s Gospel - Freddy Hedley This module exposes students to John’s Gospel as a unshared eye-witness tradition of the historical Jesus, and the book’s profound role in shaping the early church. Students will explore the “beloved apostle’s” unique perspective on the life of Christ, the glory of the Cross and his wits of the risen Lord. Special focus will be given to major themes and recurring symbols throughout the Gospel, showing how the Jesus of John’s Gospel addressed the firsthand needs of early believers and speaks to pressing challenges in the 21st century church. TH5914: Spirit and Text: Transformational Hermeneutics - Jo Soper At WTC, we expect the Holy Spirit to bring life and power to our study of the Scriptures. We expect to be reverted as we read, and to tell the message of the gospel in fresh ways as the Spirit re-issues it in every generation. What a privilege! But it’s not unchangingly easy to understand the Bible, or to know what it ways for us now. This module introduces students to issues of interpretation, including asking how genre, context and culture impact meaning, and how the biblical author, the text itself and the reader interreact with the Spirit in a way which leads to personal transformation, and transformation in the world. TH5925: On Being Truly Human - Peter Hartwig The module introduces students to the field of theological anthropology. Working in reverse chronological order, this module will review major figures in theological reflection upon humanity. Students will be expected not only to learn the claims of these thinkers of Christian anthropology and the historical uniting which connects them all together, but moreover to reap the skills of hair-trigger reflection and systematisation that constructive work in the willpower requires. TH5917: Christian Dialogue with Other Faiths - Dr Joanna Williamson The module Dialogue with Other Faiths, invites you into dialogue, draws you into explorations of the deep questions of faith that maybe plane you were wrung to ask yourself. It will set you on a journey of exploration and to some extent risk. For dialogue requires some level of vulnerability and openness to new ways of seeing things, to finding Christ in unexpected places. Dialogue stimulates our own understanding of truth and it is a two way encounter. The module will introduce you to some fresh content and it will remind you that you are a part of an ongoing conversations well-nigh the meaning of life that stretch to the mists of time. It will help you find an wordplay to the question: how to live with integrity and hope in the midst of complex, pluralistic world. TH5920:Typesettingof Isaiah - Dr Matt Lynch Isaiah is sometimes tabbed the 5th Gospel, and for good reason! Isaiah is a typesetting that leads to us to Jesus. But to see how requires that we traverse the varied and rich terrain of this dynamic prophetic book. In this module we will explore the historical background, literary-theological foreground, and the Christological serendipity of Isaiah. Along the way, we will write the prophet’s thundering judgment, captivating visions of glory and salvation, and the reasons that Isaiah’s voice needs to be heard today. TH5922: Core Communication Skills in the Practice of Preaching - Christina Walker We’re without Opportunists! People who grab their 20-minute preach by the jugular and wring every last waif of potential out of it for those of us in the pew parched, drastic for words of hope, tenderness, power to inspire and re-fire us. We’ll requite you the tools to find your voice, hit your stride, structure your sermon to grasp and hold attention, to encourage encounter with Christ, to enable rumination vastitude Sunday, producing a take-away that equips hearers to go-do the Christian life. All this in an intensive, vacuum-packed 3 day practical workshop. Bring soft gown and a willing spirit. This module is optional. TH5924: Lift Up Your Voice: Prophetic Ministry in Scripture,Denominationand Society - Dr Bob Ekblad This module will explore biblical, theological, and pastoral dimensions of constructive prophetic ministry in denomination and society. The objective of this undertow is to develop a Biblical, theological and pastoral understanding of what constitutes constructive prophetic ministry in denomination and society. In particular students will explore social justice and the prophetic, Charismatic perspectives on prophecy, and Apocalyptic-oriented perspectives on the prophetic. This module is optional. Year 5 Modules TH6936: Christology: Ancient and Modern - Dr Lucy Peppiatt This module gives students the opportunity to delve into the fascinating questions of ‘Who is Jesus?’ and ‘What does it midpoint to be saved?’ We explore how the early denomination wrestled with how to describe Jesus in ways that would be well-spoken and unambiguous in the culture virtually them. We study some of the developments through history in thinking well-nigh Jesus, as well as the biblical perspective on the incarnation, salvation, and the second coming. Students have the endangerment to think through what all of this ways for modern day discipleship, life, and engagement with the world in mission. TH6939: Research Methods - Ali Blacklee Whittall Having spent years writing assignments set by your tutors, now’s your endangerment to set your own work as you prepare to do your dissertation. You will be introduced to the range of research possibilities available, and given help in finding a topic that will excite you. You will start to think like a researcher, and squint at how to frame a research question, decide on the towardly research diamond and methods, and then how to go well-nigh it. TH6941: Peace, Reconciliation and the Politics of Jesus - Dr Roger Mitchell We are working at a time when the dominant narrative assumes that the way to peace is only through war, that retribution trumps reconciliation, and politics is mainly well-nigh keeping the markets happy. It is time for a new way of looking at things. This module investigates key thinkers and practitioners of peace and reconciliation who have been challenging these mainstream assumptions. It then explores ways in which the politics of Jesus can be recovered as a resource for a new politics of love. The aim of the module is to catalyse new perspectives and create what Oxford professor of theology Graham Ward calls “political disciples”. It’s heady stuff! Year 6 Modules TH6942: The History of Christian Spirituality - Dr Steve Watts This module takes as it starting point that Christian spirituality is not simply a private, wistful topic but a dynamic and creative practice of Christian weighing in culture. While it will provide students with a wholesale overview of the history of Christianity, the module will focus on particular, representative specimen studies in order to provide a window into how spirituality has been practiced from the primitive denomination to the present. On the understructure of these studies, the module aims to inspire remoter reflection on how Christian spirituality is, and might be, practiced today. TH6943: Galatians: Text and Theology - Dr Jason Myers This module will focus on Paul’s letter to the Galatians, with particular reference to the historical context and theological concerns of Paul in unstipulated and of the letter in particular. Furthermore, the module will be guided by three commentators representing the three major ‘schools’ of Pauline interpretation: ‘Traditional Protestant’, ‘New Perspective’, and ‘Apocalyptic’. Throughout, this module will consider the ways in which this explosive piece of Christian Scripture inculcated a Christian worldview then and can do so now. TH6902: Dissertation - various sense This is the culminating stage of your BA journey! This module provides you with an opportunity to build on previous study and embark on a major self-sustaining research project of your very own choosing. For many students, the dissertation is the highlight of their wonk career. One to one supervision on a topic that excites you provides an opportunity to reach your full wonk potential. For full undertow wordage details, please visit theUndertowDelivery page. Entry Requirements This undertow is suitable for anyone who wants to go deeper in their faith but is particularly geared towards those who have not previously studied at University level. With A-levels, 72 UCAS points are normally required. (This is using UCAS’s new Tariff system introduced in September 2017). To summate your points, please click here for the UCAS Tariff calculator. For those over 25 or without A-Levels, we will take into worth work experience, leadership wits and denomination involvement. If English is not your first language, please see the English Language requirements on the Admissions page. Please don’t be put off if you have not studied before, left school longer ago that you can remember, finger terrified at the thought of writing an essay, or lack of formal qualifications. We will help you assess whether this undertow is suitable for you. All students have wangle to the study skills and learning support we provide at this level. In addition, our Hubs provide a supportive and prayerful environment in which you can succeed. Fees The financing of this undertow are £3,250 per year which includes a £350 non-refundable petrifaction to personize your place without receiving an offer.UndertowOfferings Admissions CertHE in Kingdom Theology BA (Hons) in Kingdom Theology Graduate Diploma in Kingdom Theology MA in Kingdom Theology Flexi-MA in Kingdom Theology OpenWTC: Theology Without WallsUndertowDeliveryWonkCalendar Bursary Information Fees & FAQs Tel (local rate within UK): 030 0040 6200 E-mail: info@wtctheology.org.uk This site and all its content © 2018 WTC (Reg. 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