This is an archived handbook for a previous year. The current undergraduate and postgraduate handbooks can be viewed using the links above.
Postgraduate Handbook 2025-2026 (archived)
Theology and Religion
Programmes
- V8K812: Postgraduate Diploma Catholic Theology (Distance Learning)
- V8K814: Postgraduate Certificate Catholic Theology (Distance Learning)
- V8K807: MA Catholic Theology (Distance Learning) (Final intake on full time mode of study 2025/26)
- V8K607: MA Christian Theology (Catholic Studies) (Last intake of students October 2023)
- V8K107: MA Religion and Society (Last intake of students October 2023)
- V6A282: Doctor of Theology and Ministry
- V6A101: Integrated PhD Theology and Religion
- V6K022: Graduate Diploma Theology and Religion
- V8K407: MA Theology and Religion
Modules
- THEO30140: Graduate Diploma Dissertation (40 credits)
- THEO40130: Paul and his Interpreters (not available in 2025)
- THEO40230: Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism
- THEO41030: CHRISTIAN GENDER (not available in 2025)
- THEO41230: PRINCIPLES OF THEOLOGICAL ETHICS (not available in 2025)
- THEO41330: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC METHODS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION (not available in 2025)
- THEO41630: Modern Catholic Theology: From Newman to Ratzinger (not available in 2025)
- THEO41930: Anglican Theology in Context (not available in 2025)
- THEO42330: Practical Theology: Context, Practice and Methodology (not available in 2025)
- THEO42530: The Theological Task: Contemporary Perspectives
- THEO42630: Gospels and Canon (not available in 2025)
- THEO42830: Middle Egyptian (not available in 2025)
- THEO43130: Spirituality, Religion and Health (not available in 2025)
- THEO43230: Patristic Ecclesiology (not available in 2025)
- THEO43330: Patristic Exegesis (not available in 2025)
- THEO43430: Classic Texts in Christian Theology
- THEO43530: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament (not available in 2025)
- THEO43630: The Bible and Hermeneutics (not available in 2025)
- THEO43710: Extended Study in Theology and Religion (not available in 2025)
- THEO43830: Ecclesiology and Ethnography
- THEO43930: Catholic Social Thought (not available in 2025)
- THEO44030: Doctrine of Creation (not available in 2025)
- THEO44130: England’s Religious Revolution 1640-62 (not available in 2025)
- THEO44230: Death, Sacrifice, and Prayer (not available in 2025)
- THEO44330: Method in Practical Theology
- THEO44430: Inter-disciplinary Research in Theology and Religion
- THEO44530: Scripture, Art and Theology (not available in 2025)
- THEO44630: THE THOUGHT OF THOMAS AQUINAS IN CONTEXT (not available in 2025)
- THEO44730: Religion in the Neo-Liberal Age (not available in 2025)
- THEO44830: Christianity in The Second Century (not available in 2025)
- THEO44930: Faith and Reason (not available in 2025)
- THEO45030: Word and Image: Classic Foundations for Christian Visuality (not available in 2025)
- THEO45130: Introductory New Testament Greek (not available in 2025)
- THEO45230: Introductory Biblical Hebrew (not available in 2025)
- THEO45310: Extended Study in Foreign Language (not available in 2025)
- THEO45430: Christian Fundamentalism and the Modern World (not available in 2025)
- THEO45560: Gospels and Canon (with additional texts) (not available in 2025)
- THEO45630: High Medieval Franciscan Theology (not available in 2025)
- THEO45715: Researching Religion and Belief: Reflexivity, Ethics and Identity (not available in 2025)
- THEO45860: Dissertation in Catholic Theology (DL)
- THEO45930: Catholic Theology Preliminary Tour (DL)
- THEO46030: Conceiving Change in Contemporary Catholicism (DL)
- THEO46130: Twentieth Century Catholic Theology (DL)
- THEO46230: Catholic Social Thought and Practice (DL)
- THEO46330: The Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Selected Topics (DL)
- THEO46430: Faith and Reason (DL)
- THEO46530: Trinity, Incarnation, and Creation: High Medieval Franciscan Theology (DL)
- THEO46630: Theology, Nature, Environment
- THEO46730: Classical Franciscan Theology (not available in 2025)
- THEO46830: After the Apostles: From Jerusalem to Nicaea
- THEO46930: Faith and the Experience of War
- THEO50460: Short Dissertation for Integrated PhD
- THEO50A90: Foundations for the research project
- THEO53160: Dissertation in Theology and Religion
- THEO53230: Advanced Hebrew Texts (not available in 2025)
- THEO53430: Advanced Aramaic (not available in 2025)
- THEO55130: Literature and Religion
- THEO56730: Ritual, Symbolism and Belief in the Anthropology of Religion (not available in 2025)
- THEO57630: Christian Northumbria 600-750 (not available in 2025)