Units (Subjects)
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:
- On-Campus: units in this mode are delivered face-to-face in the classroom only.
- Off-Campus: units in this mode are delivered live online only.
- Hybrid: units in this mode are delivered both on-campus and off-campus concurrently.
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid, Corequisites: OT002 or OT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Monday Daytime Unit
OT014-612/712/812
Our study of exilic prophecy will focus on the often-neglected book of Ezekiel. While this book offers a number of challenges for modern readers with its bizarre sign acts, oracles of judgment, and fantastic visions – these features communicate a unique and important message that should contribute to our picture of God and his relationship with his world. In particular, the book of Ezekiel portrays the holiness of God and the betrayal of his people in confronting and shocking language...
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid, Prerequisite: LA004 Corequisite: OT002 or OT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Monday Daytime Unit
OT015-612/712/812
Our study of exilic prophecy will focus on the often-neglected book of Ezekiel. While this book offers a number of challenges for modern readers with its bizarre sign acts, oracles of judgment, and fantastic visions – these features communicate a unique and important message that should contribute to our picture of God and his relationship with his world. In particular, the book of Ezekiel portrays the holiness of God and the betrayal of his people in confronting and shocking language...
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AQF: 5 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Monday Daytime Unit
NT002-512
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?..
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SMBC Certificate hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday Daytime Unit
CT01
One of the joys of being a Christian is reading God's word and growing in our understanding of what it means to know the Lord Jesus and serve him. One of the challenges that soon becomes apparent and one that many Christians of all stages face is how to apply the various parts of the Bible to the Christian life. Wouldn't it have been great to walk with Jesus along that Emmaus road and hear him explain 'what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself' (Luke 24:27)?..
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AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybrid, Corequisites: 6cps TH/CH/PE + 24cps OT/NT/BB
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday Daytime Unit
TH103-612/712/812
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...
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AQF: 5/7 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday Daytime Unit
CH002-512/712
We can only properly make sense of our present if we understand our past. Our numerous Protestant denominations only make sense if we understand the Reformation of the 16th Century. Whether we identify ourselves as modern or post-modern, we are indebted to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century. Our ability to understand the American Presidential race depends in part on how we well we have grasped the rise of fundamentalism in the 19th Century...
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid, Corequisites: NT001 or NT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT008-612/712/812
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...
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid, Prerequisite: LA006 Corequisites: NT001 or NT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT009-612/712/812
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...
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AQF: 6 on-campus, Prerequisite: New Testament Greek A
SEMESTER 2 2021
Tuesday + Thursday Daytime Unit
LA006-612
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.
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AQF: 5/7 on-campus
SEMESTER 2 2021
Wednesday Daytime Unit
OT002-512/712
'Get Wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.’ (Proverbs 4:7). Would you like to grow in your understanding of the Old Testament’s wisdom and prophecy books? Would you like to deepen your knowledge of God, as well as be equipped with tools for doing your own study and teaching of some of the least read books of the Bible?..
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AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybrid, Corequisites: 2x foundational NT/OT units + 1 x CH/TH/PE unit
SEMESTER 2 2021
Wednesday Daytime Unit
TH002-612/712/812
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.'
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Wednesday Daytime Unit
EM021-612/712/812
2.5 billion people in the world follow Islam or Buddhism. Perhaps God has given you an interest in helping Muslims or Buddhists find Jesus?..
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AQF: 6 on-campus, Prerequisite: Biblical Hebrew A
SEMESTER 2 2021
Thursday Daytime Unit
LA004-612
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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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM014-612/712/812
Are you teaching, training, or discipling anyone from a different cultural background than your own? Or do you think you might be in the next few years? If so, this unit is designed to equip you to do this well...
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AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM026-612/712/812 + EM205-912 (Capstone)
Are you interested in helping a church, or cluster of churches, come into being where they don’t yet exist, and especially where Christ is not known? This unit will help you develop a biblical framework for church planting. We’ll wrestle with the whys, whats, and hows of starting churches from scratch...
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AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybrid, Prerequisite: Preaching I Corequisites: 96cps of study, including 36 cps at AQF level 6
SEMESTER 2 2021
Thursday Daytime Unit
PC048-612/712/812 + PC205-912 (Capstone)
In our churches every week there are people wrestling with life’s difficulties. The problems of death, disease, political unrest and terrorism create considerable angst and fear. In today’s church how do we address God’s people dealing with such turmoil? How do we communicate the timeless truths of the gospel and connect them with our broken world? How does Christ make a difference? In what ways do people best hear and understand these truths? How does the Bible speak to our deepest longings?..
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM060-612/712/812
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?..
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AQF: 7 hybrid
SEMESTER 2 2021
Friday Daytime Unit
NT002-712
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?..
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AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybrid, Corequisite: OT002 or OT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Friday Daytime Unit
OT020-612/712/812 + OT205-912 (Capstone)
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?..
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AQF: 6/7/8 hybrid, Prerequisite: LA004 Corequisite: OT002 or OT003
SEMESTER 2 2021
Friday Daytime Unit
OT021-612/712/812
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?..
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