Bible and the Contemporary World - online learning MLitt
Part-time, postgraduate studies with the University of St Andrews
Richard Bauckham was one of the originators of our distance learning MLitt programme whilst he was a professor here at St Andrews. This book by Bauckham proposes reading the Bible as a coherent story. He shows his method in means of chapters connecting the Bible to, for example, issues of autonomy, globalisation, and ecoological concerns. … Read more
Andrew Rogers has given a guest lecture at two of our study weeks (September 2015 and January 2017). The students have valued his insights into how people are actually reading the Bible. Understanding more about the ways congregations interpret Scripture is an important contribution to thinking through how the Bible and the contemporary world connect. Rogers’ work … Read more
Zoë Bennett gave a guest lecture at our study week in January 2014 where she introduced some of the key themes of her, then, new book. I recommend this book to anyone looking to connect the Bible to contemporary issues. She juxtaposes 21st century practical theology with the work of leading nineteenth-century public ‘theologian’, John … Read more
The Scottish Government have announced that tuition fee loans of £5,500 are to be made available to distance learning students (living in Scotland) on taught postgraduate courses from next year (2018-2019). http://news.gov.scot/news/new-support-for-distance-learning-postgraduate-students
21 students gathered in St Andrews on 22 January 2018 for the taught module, ‘Surveillance, Theology, and the Bible’. A further 8 came the study week centred around further developing the skills required for their dissertation. This latter group are now researching and writing dissertations on topics as diverse as, for example, non-invasive prenatal testing … Read more
I cannot begin to say enough by way of adequately expressing my appreciation for the Bible and the Contemporary World MLitt at St Andrews. I came to the programne as a Canadian medical student seeking to think carefully and theologically about specific issues in medical ethics as well as other relevant issues that are manifestly … Read more
I studied for the MLitt in Bible and Contemporary World in 2009–2011, and it was a very special experience for me. I completed the course over two years while working full-time as a church pastor in Glasgow. My course of studies covered the book of Revelation, the Bible and diversity, and the question of suffering. … Read more
The MLitt programme was for me, a practicing attorney of 33 years, nothing so much as a kind of ‘homecoming’. It was a chance, after many years away from university, to return to serious study about serious topics at a first-rate institution. The collegiality among students and staff gave a family reunion air to the … Read more
As a serving clergyperson in the Scottish Episcopal Church, I felt the need to update my knowledge of theology and biblical studies, and to fill in some of the large gaps in my training. The Distance Learning MLitt exceeded all my expectations, in the level of stimulus and challenge, the excellence of the teaching and … Read more
I thoroughly enjoyed and enormously gained from my studies at St Andrews which I began whilst living in the UAE and continued whilst in Singapore and New Zealand. The programme has enabled me to tackle important global questions through the lens of faith. As a result, I have a deeper understanding of myself as well … Read more