See below for the individual units (subjects) currently available. Please go to Courses for information on our undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We encourage you to contact our registrars to start a conversation about what units might best suit your needs.
Units are available in the following modes:
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AQF: 6/8 on-campusSEMESTER 1 2025
Monday + Thursday OR Tuesday + Thursday Daytime Unit
LA005-612/812
Learning to read the New Testament in its original language opens up a richness of understanding of the text, providing fresh insights and nuances that can deepen your love of God's Word, and enhance the faithfulness of your teaching and preaching...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
OT017-612/712/812+ OT207-912
There's something intriguing and appealing about books like Job, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. But then they disorient us. The book of Job is sad, Ecclesiastes is sceptical and Proverbs is self-interested. And they don't seem to be about the gospel...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
OT016-612/712/812 + OT205-912 + OT206-912
There's something intriguing and appealing about books like Job, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. But then they disorient us. The book of Job is sad, Ecclesiastes is sceptical and Proverbs is self-interested. And they don't seem to be about the gospel...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
NT001-512/612/812
Being a Christian involves ‘following’ the Lord Jesus, not around Galilee and Judea, but in the course of our daily lives. The four Gospels provide four different records of what Jesus said and did. They are the foundation for knowing and understanding what he has done for us, as well as what he said about God and his will. If we really want to ‘follow’ Jesus, if we really want to be salt and light in our world, then the Gospels need to be our regular reading matter...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
TH001-612/712/812 + TH206-912
Can we know God? And if so, then how? Who wrote the Bible? Is it a divine book? Or a human book? How reliable and trustworthy is the Bible? Can we rely on it to tell us the truth about all things, or just some things? Does God foreknow the future? All of it, or just some of it? If everything happens according to God's will, why is there still suffering and evil in the world? What exactly does it mean to be created in God's image?...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT016-612/712/812 + NT206-912
Ever wish you'd been there with Jesus, listening to him in action and even eavesdropping on his conversation with his Father? John was there and left us his eyewitness record. The Gospel of John is unique: simple and accessible, but also complex and profound. Its purpose, according to John, is ‘that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name’ (John 20:31)...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT017-612/712/812 + NT207-912
Ever wish you'd been there with Jesus, listening to him in action and even eavesdropping on his conversation with his Father? John was there and left us his eyewitness record. The Gospel of John is unique: simple and accessible, but also complex and profound. Its purpose, according to John, is ‘that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name’ (John 20:31)...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
CH001-512/612/812
Who we are is very much a product of our personal history and experiences. The same can be said of families, people groups, even whole countries. As Christians, we have a shared collective history of thought and experiences that make up who the church is today. Christian History not only helps us to understand ourselves, but it also reminds us how God has sovereignly worked throughout the centuries...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
OT001-512/612/812
As Christians, we want to affirm that the Old Testament is indeed the word of God and that it holds value for the contemporary church. Yet at times we struggle to know what to do with it. While some parts are familiar, there is much here that seems odd or strange. In fact, it can sometimes feel like we are travellers lost in a foreign country – and without a guidebook...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 1 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
PC076-612/712/812 + PC206-912
Powerful cultural forces seek to form our desires and choices. A pivotal biblical text insists, “Do not be conformed … be transformed”. How are we formed? Counter-formed? Transformed … for faithful living, godly ministry, wise leadership?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 1 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
EM017-612/712/812 + EM205-912
Cross-cultural ministry can shape us to be more like our Lord Jesus. Unfortunately, it can also be a difficult and discouraging journey. This is often due to the extra challenges of living and serving away from our normal supports of family, friends and church; being out of our comfort zone in unfamiliar cultures where we struggle as linguistic toddlers; and confronting entrenched spiritual forces that are dogged in opposing the discipling of the nations...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 1 2025
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM008-612/712/812 + EM205-912 + EM206-912
Would you like to get to know people from another culture, but are afraid of ‘treading on their cultural toes’? Do you want to learn how to share the gospel with people who are very different to you, in a way that resonates with their hearts?..
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Thursday Daytime Unit
PC162-512/612/812 + CP01a
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM025-6/7/812 + EM206-912
Jesus commissioned his disciples to ‘go and make disciples’ (Matthew 28:19); Peter exhorted, ‘Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have’ (1 Peter 3:15); and Paul lamented, ‘How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?’ (Romans 10:14). As Christians, we have a commission, exhortation and passion to evangelise, but do you ever get the feeling that our culture has changed, and methods of evangelism which once worked very well last century, no longer seem as effective?..
AQF: 6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 1 2025
Friday Daytime Unit
LA003-612/812
This unit is the first step in building a solid framework for engaging with Biblical Hebrew texts in their original language. By completing both Biblical Hebrew A and B (Semester 2), students will be in a position to work directly with the Hebrew scriptures, and to continue translation and exegesis of Old Testament texts. After these units, students will be able to take Old Testament exegesis units in the Hebrew stream...
AQF: 5/6/8 + SMBC Certificate level, hybridSEMESTER 1 2025
Friday Daytime Unit
PE001-512/612/812 + CT04
What does it mean to live a life worthy of the gospel? How can we properly discern what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ in our post-Christian world? How are we to apply our understanding of God’s will to the complex ethical questions facing Christians today? The aim of this unit is to engage with Scripture in order to develop a coherent ethical framework for thinking and acting, living and loving as faithful disciples of Christ in the 21st century. Our approach will be biblical, systematic and practical...
AQF: 6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Monday + Thursday Daytime Unit
LA006-612/812
In this unit we continue our introduction and experience in reading the language in which the New Testament was written. This prepares you to read straightforward parts of the Greek New Testament for yourself, be equipped for consulting New Testament commentaries based on the Greek text and reading books which discuss or refer to Greek words and expressions. New Testament Greek is a prerequisite for the study of degree New Testament units with Greek exegesis in the Bachelor of Theology and Master of Divinity...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
NT002-512/612/812
The church is far from perfect, whether we have in mind the early church or the church today. How did the church get started? What issues did those first Christians struggle with? How did God use his people to spread the light of the gospel from its beginnings in Judea and Jerusalem to the very heart of the Roman Empire?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
OT020-612/712/812 + OT205-912 + OT206-912
We live in beautiful but broken world, a world full of blessing and loss. In every circumstance, we are called to trust in a God who is sovereign and good, a God who has promised to save and protect his people. How do we respond when our prayers to God go unanswered? How do we live faithfully before God in times of blessing and in times of loss?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Monday Daytime Unit
OT021-612/712/812 + OT205-912 + OT207-912
We live in beautiful but broken world, a world full of blessing and loss. In every circumstance, we are called to trust in a God who is sovereign and good, a God who has promised to save and protect his people. How do we respond when our prayers to God go unanswered? How do we live faithfully before God in times of blessing and in times of loss?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT008-612/712/812 + NT205-912 + NT206-912
Luke was a doctor, a theologian, a careful historian and a follower of Jesus – the evangelist who recorded Jesus’ momentous words to Zacchaeus, “Today salvation has come to this house.” This unit studies the Gospel of Luke in its context as one of the three Synoptic Gospels, considering the question of what kind of writing the Gospels actually are...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT009-612/712/812 + NT205-912 + NT207-912
Luke was a doctor, a theologian, a careful historian and a follower of Jesus – the evangelist who recorded Jesus’ momentous words to Zacchaeus, “Today salvation has come to this house.” This unit studies the Gospel of Luke in its context as one of the three Synoptic Gospels, considering the question of what kind of writing the Gospels actually are...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
PC003-612/712/812 + PC206-912 + CP05
Christian ministry is grounded in God’s love for people in the gospel of Jesus Christ. That means Christian ministry is necessarily about loving and caring for people, so that they love and trust Christ. Ministry to people can be challenging at the best of times, especially when people are faced with crises and tragedies...
AQF: 5/6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
NT002-512/612/812
The church is far from perfect, whether we have in mind the early church or the church today. How did the church get started? What issues did those first Christians struggle with? How did God use his people to spread the light of the gospel from its beginnings in Judea and Jerusalem to the very heart of the Roman Empire?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
EM021-612/712/812 + EM205-912 + EM206-912
Over 4 billion people in the world follow traditional religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Perhaps God has given you an interest in helping people in these religions find Jesus? This unit will help you do that. In it, we explore the basic beliefs, practices, and some deeply held assumptions of Animists, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Wednesday Daytime Unit
TH002-612/712/812 + TH206-912
Theology affects all of life. It is intensely practical. It answers the meaning of life questions such as, 'Who am I? What is my purpose? How can I live well?' – by stepping back to see the centrality of God himself to our lives and the universe. As Augustine said, 'You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.'
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM060-612/712/812 + EM205-912 + EM206-912
Our God is a God of mission. The gospel is for people of every nation, tribe and tongue, in Australia and to the ends of the earth. We all affirm it but how should it impact our lives and our churches here? Should we just focus on our own neighbourhood and let others work out the rest? What does it look like to faithfully serve God’s global mission at home? What is our role locally and further afield?...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM026-612/712/812 + EM205-912 + EM206-912
As we read Paul's missionary journeys in the book of Acts, we see that his ministry trips to cities resulted not just in people coming to faith, but in local churches being established. Much of the New Testament consists of Paul writing to these churches. This dynamic has led many to agree with Tom Hale, a medical missionary to Nepal, who wrote, "The essential core ministry in missions is the winning of people to Christ and forming them into congregations—that is, evangelism and church planting"...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2025
Friday Daytime Unit
TH103-612/712/812 + TH205-912 + TH206-912
There is no more important question in life than, “What must I do to be saved?” The doctrines of grace are concerned with God’s plan of salvation from election through to glorification, through which he brings about his eternal purposes for his creation, and in particular, for those he has chosen by grace to be his people. They also describe how the finished work of Jesus Christ is applied by the regenerating and sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit to the believer, who by virtue of their union with Christ, is justified, adopted and perfected to share in his glory...
AQF: 6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2025
Friday Daytime Unit
LA004-612/812
This unit continues building a solid framework for engaging with Biblical Hebrew texts in their original language. By completing both Biblical Hebrew A (Semester 1) and B, students will be in a position to work directly with the Hebrew scriptures, and to continue translation and exegesis of Old Testament texts. After these units, students will be able to take Old Testament exegesis units in the Hebrew stream...
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