This course offers a new approach to the study of pilgrimage, combining history and anthropology to examine western pilgrimage practices from the Middle Ages to the modern day.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
This introductory course will explore the main stylistic and iconographic themes in Islamic art and highlight the diversity of its expressions.
How can we begin to understand the spiritual lives of prehistoric people? When do religious ideologies first appear on the human evolutionary timescale? Using both anthropology and archaeological evidence these and many other questions are examined.
Come immerse yourself in Augustine's Confessions, a profound reflection on the inner life and motivations of one of history's greatest thinkers and writers. The course combines historical, literary, religious, philosophical and psychological approaches.
Introduction to the content of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, together with their religious and socio-political backgrounds, languages and main theological themes and interpretations.
This introductory course will explore the main stylistic and iconographic themes in Islamic art and highlight the diversity of its expressions.
How can we begin to understand the spiritual lives of prehistoric people? When do religious ideologies first appear on the human evolutionary timescale? Using both anthropology and archaeological evidence these and many other questions are examined.
Religion has played a highly important part in the lives of human beings. Explore some of the foundations of three of the great religions of the world: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
Fact or fiction? This course on the God dilemma will challenge everything you thought you knew about religion, reason and the mind – and then some. An accessible introduction to an issue that touches every culture and generation.
A two-week residential summer school for members of the clergy, theologians and teachers of religious education. Held at Christ Church.
Examine notions of 'self', 'psyche' and 'soul' in mystical, medieval and contemporary psychoanalytical settings. As well as giving a historical framework to these terms, we will also explore pastoral and practical applications in a contemporary context.
The Bachelor of Theology builds on the introductory knowledge and skills acquired in the Certificate. You will develop a broad knowledge and understanding of the beliefs, practices, texts and history of the Christian tradition.