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Heythrop College MA taster day (I am speaking)

MA Taster Day

25 January 2013 10:00

Category: Open Days and Evenings

Want to try a university course before you apply?

10.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.

This MA Taster day will provide prospective postgraduate students with a taste of what a course at Heythrop is like. You will have the opportunity to hear and meet some of our most experienced lecturers and gain an insight into the additional facilities available in the College.


Stay all day (with lunch included) or dip in and out – all for free!


A provisional programme for the day is as follows:

10.00    Arrive, register, coffee                           

10.30    Interreligious Relations / Abrahamic Religions   
The Impact of Modernity on Abrahamic Religions: The Muslims' Reactions, Dr Ahmad Achtar
                       
Contemporary Ethics                               
Ethics and Contemporary Morality: What’s the Difference?, Dr Anna Abram

11.30    Biblical Studies   
Society Structures and Paul's Assembly in Corinth, Dr Jonathan Norton   
               
Psychology of Religion                   
Has Psychological Understanding Put God in Question? A New Look at Freud and Jung, Prof Rachel Blass

12.30    Philosophy                                       
Sceptical Moves in Classroom Debates and their Resolution, Dr Stephen Law

1.30    Lunch    (provided)

2.30    Christian Spirituality                      
Themes in Christian Spirituality, Dr Edward Howells

Christian Theology                           
Creation, Salvation and the Structure of Christian Theology, Dr Martin Poulsom

3.30    Canon Law                     
The Church, Money and Public Benefit, Dr Helen Costigane   

Pastoral Theology
Keeping Faith in Practice: Theology in Action, Dr James Sweeney

Bookings

Please click here to book your place.


If you have any queries about the day, please do not hesitate to contact us at a.clarkson@heythrop.ac.uk

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