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Exploring Theology Winter 2023

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About the Exploring Theology Winter 2023 course

Winter 2023: Exploring Modern Developments in Theological Conversations

Sarum College’s flagship Exploring Theology programme is for anyone who wishes to deepen their knowledge of and relationship with the Bible and Christian teachings through intellectually rigorous, interactive, and accessible learning.

This is a two-year course designed so that students can join in at any time.

Year A focuses on Exploring the Bible, serving to equip students with knowledge and tools to read and encounter the Scriptures faithfully and fruitfully in their own lives.

Year B focuses on Exploring Christian Belief, which serves to help students see the bigger picture in relation to developments and themes within the Christian tradition.

In 2023 we are focusing on exploring Christian Belief and then the various ways we read and live with it.

This course is run solely online via Zoom over 10 weeks each Tuesday evening from 7-9pm BST, with sessions being recorded and readings made available via SarumLearn to registered students.
Week – Date – Topic – Tutor
1 24 Jan The Social Gospel Movement (19th century roots – industrial revolution) / James Crossley
2 31 Jan The Search for the Historical Jesus / James Crossley
3 7 Feb Wrestling with God and the Problem of Suffering & Evil / Katie Cross
4 14 Feb Does God Change?: Relationality and Process Theology / Jayme Reaves
5 21 Feb The Search for What Saves Us: Atonement Theories and Critiques / Jayme Reaves
6 28 Feb ‘The Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression’: An Intro to Liberation & Black Theology‘ / Carlton Turner
7 7 Mar ’God Save the King’?: An Intro to Post-Colonial Theology / Carlton Turner
8 14 Mar Encountering the Feminine Divine in the Christian Tradition: An Intro to Feminist Theology / Rachel Starr
9 21 Mar In Praise of Indecency: An Intro to Queer Theology / Lyndon Webb
10 28 Mar For Us and Our Salvation?: Faith and Mission in a Diverse World / Jayme Reaves

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course # online £95

Weekly two-hour course delivered online via Zoom over 10 weeks each Tuesday evening from 7-9pm BST, with sessions being recorded and readings made available via SarumLearn to registered students.

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course # with essays online £190

Weekly two-hour course delivered online via Zoom over 10 weeks each Tuesday evening from 7-9pm BST, with sessions being recorded and readings made available via SarumLearn to registered students. If you are interested in the option with essays please refer to page https://www.sarum.ac.uk/exploring-theology/ for further details.

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Details

Dates & Times

31 Jan 2023
This is a 10-week course that runs every Tuesday from 7-9pm

Category

Bible & Sacred Texts

Tutor(s)

Alison Webster
Dr Jayme Reaves

Other Notes

This is a 10-week course that is part of a two year programme designed to allow you to join at any time.

You can join this term until 14 February 2023.

 

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What our students say

Netflix, Theology and Pastoral Practice

Peter Butchers on his MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture student experience

How do cultural tropes, like those found in Black Mirror, help bridge the gap between what academic theology espouses and what the everyday Christian believes? In his research as a student on the MA in Theology, Imagination and Culture, Peter Butchers explored platonic philosophy, digital theology and eschatology, and pastoral practice around death and dying.

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Rewarding Sabbatical Stay

The Revd Greg Syler, is Rector of Ascension & St. George’s, Resurrection Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, DC USA, spent part of his ministry sabbatical at Sarum College in spring 2022.

His account of the experience begins: ‘I loved spending nearly three weeks of my ministry sabbatical at Sarum College earlier this year.

Not only did I rest, and rest well in the comfortable care of the Sarum College staff, I experienced very significant renewal and fresh insights.’

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The Road Not Taken

Sarum Graduate Mike Truman

January 2022

Five years ago, I told my Warden of Readers that I would not be renewing my licence when it expired in 2019, as I thought my faith was becoming too unorthodox for a Church of England licensed lay minister. As someone who knew me well, she challenged me to actively explore what I did still believe. Thus started the journey that ended last August with the dissertation completing my MA in Theology Imagination and Culture (MATIC) at Sarum College.

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Clergy Study Breaks

The opportunity for clergy to get away occasionally from their own context, to have an overnight stay in the beautiful setting of Sarum College and all that the Salisbury Cathedral Close offers is hugely valuable. All the clergy I have suggested who have spent 24hrs at Sarum College have benefit greatly from the experienced mentoring where they can talk, reflect, think, plan and pray.

The support and encouragement they receive is excellent and has a positive on their on going ministry. This is something the Diocese of Rochester encourages and supports financially in preparation for their clergy preparing for Extended Ministerial Development Leave (Sabbatical).

— Canon Christopher Dench, Diocese of Rochester Director of Formation and Ministry

Retreats and Private Stays

When I arrived, exhausted and sensitive, I was grateful not to be asked by Reception were I came from, whether I had had a good journey etc. That was the kind of hospitality I needed: a non-intrusive welcome that was found in ancient cultures and still survives in some societies today, where the host asks questions about a stranger and his journey only when the visitor has rested and been given food and drink.

— guest on a private stay

Biblical Study Breaks

I just found it very refreshing – as a leader of a church I don’t get as many opportunities to step out and do courses (my fault, not the church!) and so I loved it. I think it was run really well online – which is a difficult medium to work with.

Pádraig Ó Tuama (pictured) was outstanding in his balance of getting us to engage and sharing his learning. Also the quick availability of resources provided by Sarum College Librarian Jayne Downey was excellent.

— course participant, Story Theology: Narrative Approaches to Scripture

Tutor(s)

Alison Webster

Alison Webster

Jayme-Reaves

Dr Jayme Reaves

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