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.
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AQF: 6/7/8 on-campusINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 8 – Friday 12 January 2024
DE014-612/712/812
Chaplains have played a significant role for many years in sharing and modelling the Christian faith in places of education in this country. This unit will give you the opportunity to explore the practice and theology of chaplaincy...
AQF: 5/8, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 15 – Friday 19 January 2024
TH005-512i/812i
For many people the idea of "theology" conjures up images of dry and deathly boring concepts that are completely detached from real life. Sadly, sometimes that reputation is well-deserved. But theology should not be like that. The puritan theologian William Ames described theology as "the knowledge of how to live in the presence of God." Another theologian, Petrus van Mastricht, that it is "the doctrine of living for God through Christ." Fundamentally, theology is about knowing God so that we can love him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 15 – Friday 19 April 2024
NT001-512i/612i/812i
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, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 15 – Friday 19 April 2024
OTXXX˜-612i/712i/812i + OT206-912i (Specialised Studies) + OT207-912i
Why bother studying Chronicles? Isn’t it mostly just a list of names? Doesn’t it just rehash history already covered in Samuel and Kings?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on siteSTUDY TOUR
Friday 28 June – Saturday 13 July 2024
BB202 - 612/712/812/912
SMBC will be offering a Study Tour of Israel and Jordan in June/July 2024. Join us as we visit some of the key archaeological sites relating to important events recorded in the Bible. Come to Jordan and view the promised land from Mount Nebo, discover the lost city of Petra, then cross the Jordan River to Israel, sail the Sea of Galilee, enter Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives and explore the Garden of Gethsemane, and much more!...
AQF: 7/8/9 hybrid, Prerequisites: PC073-912i = 48cps Level 8 INTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 8 - Friday 12 July 2024
PC073-712i/812i/912i + PC205-912i + PC206-912i
Christian ministry is hard work and stressful at the best of times, even when it is a joy and blessing. Following in the way of Jesus necessarily involves suffering and sacrifice. Caring for God’s people is demanding and costly. Unresolved conflict can demotivate us. Criticisms can hurt. The challenge is to keep holy, healthy and maturing in the midst of the ups and downs of Christian ministry. A vibrant spiritual relationship with the living God is vital. We are to attend to our physical, emotional and mental health. Loving relationships with family and friends are crucial aspects of our being and well-being...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 26 – Friday 30 August 2024
PCXXX˜-612i/712i/812i + OT206-912i (Specialised Studies)
We live in a post-Christian, post-churched, post-everything world! It’s a new landscape to witness and preach in. New generations need new ways of communicating. But thankfully some things don’t change, especially the power of the gospel to save and radically transform lives. Wherever we are, the urgency of sharing the good news about Jesus before his return remains...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 30 September – Friday 4 October 2024
NT002-512i/612i/812i
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, hybridINTENSIVE
Lecture Week: Monday 30 September – Friday 4 October 2024
TH001-612i/712i/812i + TH206-912i
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?..
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