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Divinity

SCQF Level 07 (5 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
DIVI07005 Introduction to Pioneer Ministry and Church Planting Not delivered this year 10
DIVI07006 Introduction to Pioneer Ministry and Church Planting (Online/Blended-Learning) Not delivered this year 10
DIVI07009 The New Testament in its World Not delivered this year 10
DIVI07007 Training for Leading Worship in a Local Context Not delivered this year 10
DIVI07008 SV1 Training for Leading Worship in a Local Context (Blended Learning Option) 10

SCQF Level 08 (27 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
DIVI08002 Atheism in Debate: Dawkins, his allies and his opponents Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08004 SV1 Buddhism in Global Contexts 20
DIVI08023 Christian Theology: Approaches and Themes Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08025 SV1 Christian Theology: Doctrines and Debates 20
DIVI08017 Christianity in Formation 100-313 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08024 Ethics and Society Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08021 Global Indigenous Religions Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08014 SV1 History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A 20
DIVI08015 SV1 History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B 20
DIVI08007 SV1 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew 20
DIVI08008 SV1 Intermediate New Testament Greek 20
DIVI08005 SV1 Introducing Biblical Hebrew 20
DIVI08006 SV1 Introducing New Testament Greek 20
DIVI08012 Jesus and the Gospels Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08022 SV1 Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories 20
REST08019 Modern Hebrew 1A Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08011 Moses and the Torah Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08010 SV1 Paul and His Letters 20
DIVI08013 SV1 Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe 20
DIVI08009 SV1 Prophets and Their Oracles 20
DIVI08019 SV1 Religion in Modern Britain 20
DIVI08001 Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08020 Religions of Ancient India: Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08016 Social Christianity in Britain, Germany and the United States, 1848-1930 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08018 Studying Religions Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08003 The Bible in Literature Not delivered this year 20
DIVI08026 The God(s) of the Philosophers: Proposals and Problems Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 10 (104 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
DIVI10002 Adam, Eve and LGBT+: Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10053 SV1 Advanced Greek Texts 20
DIVI10007 SV1 Ancient Wisdom: Biblical sages and their writings 20
DIVI10060 Aramaic Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10084 Atheism, Humanism and Non-Religion Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10019 Augustine in his Age Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10071 Bible and Archaeology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10050 Biblical Hebrew Texts A Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10052 SV1 Biblical Hebrew Texts B 20
DIVI10094 Body, Soul and Self: Theological Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10041 SV1 Buddhist Ethics 20
DIVI10008 SV1 Buddhist Literature 20
DIVI10023 Byzantine Church and Society 451-1672 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10078 Children and the Church: Popular Education and Child Welfare in England and Scotland, 1800-1900 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10091 Christ in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10027 Christian Ethics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10042 SV1 Christian-Muslim Relations: diatribe, discourse and dialogue 20
DIVI10018 Christianity and Colonialism in Africa, 1800 to the present Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10010 SV1 Christianity in Africa to 1500 20
DIVI10017 Church, Conflict and Community in Britain and Ireland 1850-1914 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10024 Church, Sacraments and Ministry Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10098 Conflicts and Controversies in Islam: Theology, Law and Politics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10043 SV1 Contemporary Systematic Theologies 20
DIVI10090 Doctrine of Creation Not delivered this year 0
DIVI10062 Early Christian Greek Texts Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10022 Early Christian Writers Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10063 Early Jewish Texts Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10005 Emotion, Spirituality and Mysticism in Early Modern Christianity Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10038 SV1 Field-Work Approaches for the Study of Religion 20
DIVI10033 Film, Religion and Ethics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10034 SV1 Food in Christian Religion 20
DIVI10048 SV1 God of the Oppressed: Liberation Theologies in Christianity and Islam 20
DIVI10059 Hebrew Prophecy Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10037 Hindu Traditions: History, Power and Agency Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10067 Historical Jesus Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10028 Homiletics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10086 Indigenous Futures: Knowledge, Ecology and Politics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10075 SS1 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew (Honours) 20
DIVI10073 SS1 Intermediate New Testament Greek (Honours) 20
DIVI10074 SV1 Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Honours) 20
DIVI10072 SV1 Introducing New Testament Greek (Honours) 20
DIVI10081 Islam Past and Present: Issues of Gender and Ethics Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10045 SV1 Islamic Law: From Prayer to Politics 20
DIVI10009 SV1 Islamic Theology: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives 20
DIVI10055 Jesus in Film Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10076 Jesus in and beyond the New Testament Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10015 SV1 Jews and Non-Jews: Co-existence, Conflict, Co-operation 20
DIVI10044 Literature of the Islamic World Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10011 SV1 Lived Theology 20
DIVI10085 Lives of the Buddha: Jataka Stories and Early Buddhism Not delivered this year 0
DIVI10089 Metaphysics and Morality Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10031 Mission in Contemporary Scotland Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10026 Modern Christology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10095 Modern Theology: From the French Revolution to the First World War Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10047 Muslim and Christian Perspectives on Jesus Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10039 New Spiritualities: from New Age to Holistic Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10061 New Testament Texts Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10069 New Testament Themes Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10077 Newman - Anglican and Catholic Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10064 Old Testament Texts Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10065 Old Testament Texts 2 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10068 Old Testament Theology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10070 Parables in Practice Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10020 Paradise Lost? Christianity in the Pacific 1668-1999 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10025 Pastoral Care and Theology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10049 SV1 Peacebuilding, Religion and the Arts 20
DIVI10101 Pioneers of Political Islam Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10102 Political Theologies: Thinkers and Themes Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10100 Public Theologies: Thinkers and Themes Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10036 SV1 Reformations: Britain and Ireland 1475-1600 20
DIVI10079 Reformations: Continental Europe 1475-1600 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10016 SV1 Religion and Ethics in Literature 20
DIVI10087 Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary World Not delivered this year 0
DIVI10004 Religion and the Climate Crisis Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10080 Religion, Covenants and Revolution in Britain and Ireland c. 1600-1660 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10040 SV1 Religions in Africa 20
DIVI10029 SV1 Science and Christian Theology: Historical and Theological Perspectives 20
DIVI10046 SV1 Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination 20
DIVI10032 Scottish Theology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10066 Second Temple Judaism Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10013 The Apostle Paul in and beyond the New Testament Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10003 SV1 The Dark Lord: God and Violence in the Hebrew Bible 20
DIVI10054 The Dead Sea Scrolls Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10058 The Gospels Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10057 SV1 The Hebrew Bible and Contemporary Issues 20
DIVI10083 The Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10014 The Holocaust in History and Culture Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10099 The Importance of Being Islamic: Explorations in Premodern Muslim Thought Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10021 SV1 The Making of Christian Orthodoxy 325-451 20
DIVI10012 The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman World Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10092 The Theology of Karl Barth Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10096 Theatre, Religion and the Search for Peace Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10035 Theological Ethics in Continental European Perspective Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10093 Theologies in Global Contexts Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10030 Theology and Contemporary Science Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10001 SV1 Theology and Religious Studies: Final Dissertation 40
DIVI10006 SV1 Theology in the Age of Technology 20
DIVI10097 Theology that Liberates: From Latin American to Queer Theology Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10088 Theories of Religion Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10082 Theravada Buddhism Not delivered this year 20
DIVI10056 Women and Gender in the New Testament World Not delivered this year 20
ASST10157 Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia Not delivered this year 20
ANHI10095 Mysteria: The Secret Cults of Antiquity Not delivered this year 20
CACA10042 The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (140 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
BIST11003 Advanced Greek Readings Not delivered this year 20
BIST11010 Advanced Greek Readings B Not delivered this year 20
BIST11011 Advanced Hebrew Texts A Not delivered this year 20
BIST11012 Advanced Hebrew Texts B Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11032 SV1 African Christianity to 1500 (PG) 20
ECHS11019 Ancient Mediterranean Religions Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11029 SV1 Ancient Wisdom: Biblical sages and their writings (PG) 20
DIVI11011 SS1 Approaches to Research in Divinity and Religious Studies 10
DIVI11012 SS1 Approaches to Research: Biblical Studies 10
THET11063 SS1 Approaches to Research: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 10
BIST11029 SS1 Approaches to Research: Religion and Literature 10
DIVI11014 SS1 Approaches to Research: Religious Studies 10
DIVI11015 SS1 Approaches to Research: Science and Religion 10
DIVI11016 SS1 Approaches to Research: Theology in History 10
DIVI11017 Approaches to Research: World Christianity Not delivered this year 10
BIST11007 Aramaic Not delivered this year 20
REST11025 Atheism and the Rejection of Religion Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11014 Augustine: Confessions, City of God, On the Trinity Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11030 SV1 Buddhist Literature (PG) 20
ECHS11016 Byzantine Theology 451-1672 Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11006 Calvinist Theology and Piety in Britain and America, C. 1590-1660 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11040 SV1 Christian Ethics (PG) 20
DIVI11039 Christianity and Colonialism in Africa, 1800 to the present (PG) Not delivered this year 20
WRCH11019 Christianity in Asia, 1700 to the Present Not delivered this year 20
THET11001 Church, State and Civil Society Not delivered this year 20
REST11015 Contemporary Theories of Religion Not delivered this year 20
THET11035 Cosmos, Cell and Creator Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11022 Creeds, Councils and Controversies Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11003 Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Patristic and Medieval Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11004 Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Reformation and Modern Not delivered this year 20
WRCH11016 Critical Debates in Christian Mission Not delivered this year 20
THET11062 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations) 60
REST11014 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in Religious Studies) 60
DIVI11010 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in Science and Religion) 60
DIVI11025 SS1 Dissertation (MSc/MTh in Religion and Literature) 60
BIST11006 SV1 Dissertation (MTh/MSc in Biblical Studies) 60
WRCH11015 Dissertation (MTh/MSc in Christianity in the Non-Western World) Not delivered this year 60
ECHS11009 SV1 Dissertation (MTh/MSc in Theology in History) 60
WRCH11021 SS1 Dissertation (MTh/MSc in World Christianity) 60
ECHS11012 Early Christian Writers from Ignatius to John Chrysostom Not delivered this year 20
THET11024 Film and Religion Not delivered this year 20
THET11029 Friedrich Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith Not delivered this year 20
THET11040 From diatribe to dialogue in Christian-Muslim relations Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11028 SV1 Global Concerns in Public and Political Theology 20
BIST11021 SV1 Hebrew Bible in Historical-Critical Perspective 20
BIST11004 Hebrew Prophecy Not delivered this year 20
BIST11009 Hebrew Scripture Theology Not delivered this year 20
REST11018 SV1 Hindu Traditions: Critical Investigations 20
THET11051 SV1 History of Science and Religion (online) 20
THET11015 SV1 History of Science and Religion in the Christian Tradition 20
BIST11024 SV1 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew (PG) 20
BIST11023 SV1 Intermediate New Testament Greek (PG) 20
BIST11026 SV1 Introducing Biblical Hebrew (PG) 20
BIST11025 SV1 Introducing New Testament Greek (PG) 20
THET11052 Islam, Law and Human Rights Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11031 SV1 Islamic Theology: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives (PG) 20
DIVI11042 SV1 Issues of Religion and Ethics in Literature 20
REST11029 Issues of Religion and Ethics in Literature Not delivered this year 20
THET11045 Jesus Christ in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Not delivered this year 20
THET11059 Jesus in Christian-Muslim Relations Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11036 SV1 Jews and Non-Jews: Co-existence, Conflict, Co-operation (PG) 20
DIVI11041 Jews, Christians and Pagans Not delivered this year 20
THET11026 Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics Not delivered this year 20
THET11039 Key Thinkers in Science and Religion Not delivered this year 20
THET11060 Liberation Theologies in Christianity and Islam: Comparative Perspectives Not delivered this year 20
THET11048 Liberation Theology in Context Not delivered this year 20
THET11042 Literary Classics of the Islamic World Not delivered this year 20
BIST11028 Literature and Religion: Exploring the Connections Not delivered this year 20
REST11026 Lives of the Buddha in Indian Art and Literature Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11019 SS1 Long Supervised Research Essay - Track A 40
THET11057 Major Themes in the Study of Islam Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11021 SV1 Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church 20
THET11054 Mind, Matter and Spirit Not delivered this year 20
THET11055 Mind, Matter, and Spirit (Online) Not delivered this year 20
REST11010 New Age Spirituality in Contemporary Culture Not delivered this year 20
REST11023 SV1 New Spiritualities 20
BIST11017 New Testament Exegesis A Not delivered this year 20
BIST11031 New Testament Texts (Postgraduate) Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11018 Newman and the Victorian Church Not delivered this year 20
THET11061 Peacebuilding, Theology and the Arts Not delivered this year 20
THET11046 Philosophy, Science and Religion 2: Life and Mind (online) Not delivered this year 20
THET11058 Political Islam: Key Thinkers and their Contexts Not delivered this year 20
THET11065 Political Theologies: Current Controversies Not delivered this year 20
THET11066 Public Theologies: Current Controversies Not delivered this year 20
THET11044 Readings in Theological Anthropology Not delivered this year 20
THET11067 Readings in Western Theology from the French Revolution to the First World War Not delivered this year 20
REST11016 Reflections on Gender and Ethics in Classical and Contemporary Islam Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11001 Reformation in Sixteenth Century Britain and Ireland Not delivered this year 20
REST11019 Religion and Nationalism: Theory and Performance Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11013 Religion and the Enlightenment: The Birth of the Modern Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11026 Religion, the Environment and the Climate Crisis Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11038 SV1 Religions in Africa 20
THET11037 Science and Religion in Literature Not delivered this year 20
THET11038 SV1 Science and Scripture 20
THET11050 Science and Scripture (online) Not delivered this year 20
THET11049 Scottish Literature, Imagination, and Faith Not delivered this year 20
REST11008 Selected Themes in the Study of Religion Not delivered this year 20
WRCH11018 Selected Themes in the Study of World Christianity Not delivered this year 20
BIST11002 Selected Topics in Biblical Studies Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11020 SS1 Short Supervised Research Essay 1 - Track A 20
DIVI11021 SS1 Short Supervised Research Essay 2 - Track A 20
DIVI11005 Smaller Dissertation (Research Masters) Not delivered this year 100
THET11027 Studies in Preaching Not delivered this year 20
BIST11020 Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11003 SV1 Supervised Research Essay 1 20
DIVI11022 SS1 Supervised Research Essay 1 - Track B 40
DIVI11006 Supervised Research Essay 2 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11023 SS1 Supervised Research Essay 2 - Track B 40
DIVI11007 Supervised Research Essay 3 Not delivered this year 20
THET11053 Systematic Theology: Recent Perspectives Not delivered this year 20
BIST11027 The Hebrew Bible and Contemporary Issues (PG) Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11037 The Holocaust in History and Culture (PG) Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11035 SV1 The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman World (PG) 20
DIVI11033 SV1 The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman World (PG) (Online) 20
REST11020 The Practice of Field-Work in the Study of Religion Not delivered this year 20
ECHS11010 The Seven Ecumenical Councils 325-787 Not delivered this year 20
THET11064 The Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Not delivered this year 20
THET11056 Theologies in the Public Square Not delivered this year 20
WRCH11020 Theologies of World Christianity Not delivered this year 20
BIST11030 Theology and Literary History of the Hebrew Bible Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11024 Theology and Religious Studies Major Dissertation (Masters by Research) Not delivered this year 180
DIVI11018 SS1 Theology and Religious Studies Research Masters Dissertation 80
ECHS11020 Theology in the Long Reformation 1400-1600 Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11027 SV1 Theology, Ethics and Technology 20
REST11012 SS1 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion 20
REST11021 Theravada Buddhism from Benares to Bangkok Not delivered this year 20
REST11022 Understanding the Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana Not delivered this year 20
BIST11022 Women, Gender, and the New Testament: Text and Theory Not delivered this year 20
DIVI11034 SV1 Women, Gender, and the New Testament: Text and Theory (Online) 20
ASST11073 Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11179 Dissertation MSc Philosophy, Science and Religion (Online) Not delivered this year 60
PHIL11178 Dissertation: Part-Time MSc Philosophy, Science and Religion (Online) Not delivered this year 60
PGHC11529 Herod the Great and the End of Hellenism (online) Not delivered this year 20
ASST11074 Japanese Religions in the Modern Era Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11469 Judaea under Roman Rule Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11159 Philosophy of Religion (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PHIL11160 Philosophy, Science and Religion 1: The Physical World (Online) Not delivered this year 20
ASST11071 The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11556 The Jewish Diaspora in the Roman Empire (Online) Not delivered this year 20
PGHC11487 The Maccabaean Revolt Not delivered this year 20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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