Systematic Theology

Module code: 7AATC999
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 60
Semester:  summer session 1;  summer session 2; 
Teaching pattern: The dissertation is to be on a topic chosen by the candidate with advice from his or her supervisor, and written under supervision.
 
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x dissertation of up to 15,000 words

For a full module description and further information, please see the module page on the Department of Theology & Religious Studies website.
 

Module code: 7AATC404
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Semester 2 (spring) 
Assessment:  coursework 

one x 5,000-word essays

This module aims to provide a grounding in the advanced study of theology as a doctrinal discipline. It therefore focuses firstly upon the history of doctrine (Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology) before proceeding to examine some of the primary ways in which theology has developed contextual expressions and critiques of doctrine. The emphasis is upon learning the parameters within which the different theological schools are doctrinally shaped and formed. The module examines a number of contemporary theological projects which seek to recontextualise doctrinal traditions within current modes of understanding.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/modules/level7/7aatc404.aspx

Module code: 7AATC401
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: Taught via one three-hour class per week (10 weeks)
Assessment:  coursework 

2 x 5,000 word essays

This module approaches the nature of systematic theology with particular reference to its methods and use of criteria

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/modules/level7/7aatc401.aspx

Module code: 7AATC421
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 2 x 5,000-word essays

The aim of the course is to bring you into critical engagement with biblical texts through a range of commentaries from a variety of periods reflecting a wide range of hermeneutical approaches. You will develop not only an awareness of your own hermeneutical assumptions when approaching the text, but also an 'intellectual empathy' for approaches that are not your own. Beyond this, you will learn how to analyse and evaluate the various exegetical methods employed, to negotiate between conflicting interpretations and to reflect on the hermeneutical issues that arise

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/modules/level7/7aatc421.aspx

Module code: 7AATC230
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: 


Assessment:  coursework;  presentation/s; 

1 x seminar presentation (10%) - graded on presentation (5%) and short seminar paper (5%), with due dates progressive through course. 1 x 5,000 word essay (90%)

This module is devoted to the study of the passion narratives of the canonical Gospels (with some attention to the non-canonical Gospels) and their reception within creative media. Initially there will be a focus on the texts, as well as the social, political, historical and archaeological background relevant to the debates concerning the death of Jesus. Following this, the second part of the course will be an examination and analysis of the representation of the passion in art, literature and film. Students will explore how the passion of Jesus has been utilised and depicted in a variety of artistic, literary and cinematic productions.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/modules/level7/7aatc230.aspx

 

Module code: 7AATC411
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Full-year 
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 2 x 5,000-word essays.

The module will teach students about the sustained and rich discussion of the theme of the beautiful in the Western Church, a discussion which runs through every century of its history and has often provoked fierce contention (as in the Reformation). It will introduce students to this tradition, tracing its debts to classical models of the relationsihp between beauty and goodness (especially in the works of Plotinus), through the medieval discussions of beauty as a transcendental (especially in the work of Aquinas), to the theological influence on philosophical aesthetics in the 18th and 19th centuries (including the observation of a distinctively British tradition in Coleridge, Ruskin, Hopkins and others). It will conclude with the major works in the area of theological aesthetics that have been produced since the 20th century (Jacques Maritain, David, Jones, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Davie Bentley Hart, Rowan Williams).

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/trs/modules/level7/7aatc411.aspx