Theology

If you are successful in the MPhil then you may be allowed to expand the MPhil thesis for a DPhil. The total investment of time necessary for the DPhil by this route need not be longer and the route via the taught course may be an especially good foundation for a teaching career.   

You will be assigned a supervisor and in most cases this will be the course co-ordinator for the specific subject stream that you are enrolled on. 

• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Christian Doctrine, specialising in one of the following fields:
  • History of Doctrine: Patristic Theology (c. AD 100-787)
  • History of Doctrine: Scholastic Theology (c. AD 1050-1350)
  • History of Doctrine: Theology of the Reformation Period (c. AD 1500-1650)
  • Issues in Theology with special reference to Patristic Theology
  • Issues in Theology with special reference to Scholastic Theology
  • Issues in Theology with special reference to Reformation Theology
  • Issues in Theology with special reference to theology from 1780 to the present day
• Ecclesiastical History
• Christian Ethics

The Faculty of Theology runs graduate seminars in different subjects, which offer a space for all those doing graduate work to meet regularly, to share aspects of your work with your peers and to be informed by that interaction. The seminars are an important way of staying in touch with peers and present some of your research at various stages of development.

Students on the MPhil in Theology work in one of the following areas:

Students taking Ecclesiastical History may study more than one of five periods (The Early Church AD 200-476, The Western Church AD 476-1050, The Western Church AD 1000-1400, European Christianity AD 1400-1800, or European Christianity AD 1800-2000).