BA Degree

For the full degree into the third phase of the course, the learning becomes more fully ‘contextual’, enabling students to begin to use their growing theological learning to examine issues in contemporary life and ministry. It looks at some key themes in developing to witness – human identity, the nature of sin and evil, and salvation and transformation.

Modules in Year 1

Church, Mission and Theology
An introduction to the related themes of mission, ecclesiology and theology, exploring the nature of the church and the place of theology and mission in its life.

Introductory Greek*
This module will introduce students to the main elements of basic Greek grammar as related to the New Testament. Students will be taught and required to learn basic Greek vocabulary.

Understanding the Bible
This course introduces students to a deeper study of the Bible, the foundation and touchstone of Christian theology. It works through the different kinds of literature in the Old and New Testaments as well as exploring issues of how the Bible can be used and interpreted today.

Discovering the Christian Tradition
An exciting introduction to the resources and history of Christian life and thought. We look at the broad sweep of church history, some of the key thinkers (theologians who have shaped the church’s theology), and some of the major movements of prayer and spirituality across the centuries as a resource for contemporary theology and ministry.

Evangelism in Practice*
This module looks at one of the foundational issues for Christian ministry, namely evangelism. The module requires the student to experience leading on a current evangelistic course run by a church (e.g. Alpha, Emmaus) and write a theological and practical reflection on that experience.

Worship and Liturgy*
This module focuses on Christian worship. Worship is a central feature of church life, and an understanding of its theology, principles and practice is, therefore, an essential part of any programme of formation in ministry. The module aims to provide an introduction to the development, structure and theology of Anglican (and other) worship.

Modules in Years 2-3

The Bible and Theology
This module enables students to grapple with further Biblical studies. It concentrates on the way we look at the Bible as a whole, and how to develop a biblical theology in the contemporary world. It aims to help students understand some key themes that run through the Bible and begin to think how they affect ministry and mission today.

Systematic Theology
The focus of the foundational 'Discovering the Christian Tradition' course was on a historical review of the church’s life and doctrine. This takes a more systematic approach, exploring some of the key themes in Christian theology, how they have been understood over the centuries and how they can be appropriated and lived today.

The Church in the World
In this module students begin to work on issues of Church (Ecclesiology, Ethics and Mission). This is a key transitional model that begins to help them think about the context of mission today, the shape of church and kind of life required to witness effectively to the Kingdom of God.

Models of Ministry: Home Church
Students undertake a project in their home church involving observation of an aspect of its life or activities. It also enables students to reflect on their own developing ministry in their local church.
 

Bible in Depth 1
It is important that students are able to understand and use the Bible in public ministry, and one part of this is that they have a sense of how to read it in its literary context. Students therefore study selected Biblical books as set texts, in this module; Amos, Hosea and Galatians.

Church and Mission Today
This module looks at some of the foundational issues for mission and ministry today, namely the nature of church, gospel, culture and kingdom, focusing in particular on church planting and new forms of church life as a basis for mission.

Modules in Years 4-5

Human Identity
This is an exploration of a Christian understanding of what it means to be human, with particular attention to the social and physical contexts of human life and experience in the urban and suburban settings. The module also looks at the broad cosmic canvas and explores the way in which other faiths and secular culture have explored issues of human identity.

God and Evil
This module explores sin, suffering and evil, what has gone wrong with the world and the people God made. It involves not just a theoretical analysis of the topic but a look at how sin and evil can be handled and confronted through the mission of the church.

Salvation and Transformation
This module explores the different dimensions of salvation, looking at how the church can be an agent of change within the world through its engagement with culture and communities and its evangelism. It explores these issues through explanation of sociological and psychological dimensions as well theological ones.

Models of Ministry: Other church placement
Students undertake an exploration of an alternative church or mission context.

Bible in Depth 2
The set text examined is John.

Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Practice
This module examines the practice and theory of pastoral work in the church and its impact on the world. It looks at models of good practice in ministry, and how it plays out in leadership, strategy and vision in the church.

How much does it cost?
A BA Hons Degree costs £9600, this includes the Middlesex University fee and online library resource fees. The cost will be split over the number of years the course runs i.e. £1920 per year.

Applications for 2012-2013 will open in mid-January. Please do check back for further updates.

If you have any questions regarding any of our courses, please feel free to contact us at sptc@stmellitus.org

For a BA Hons Degree in Contextual Theology students require the successful completion of 360 credits. Students will complete five years of mid-week teaching and four study weeks. The first three years will be taken together with students doing the Certificate and Foundation Degrees and will cover the same courses as they do as well as the additional modules in years four and five.  Please see the attached table below.