Why Study Theology and Religious Studies

Dr Alison Milbank looks at how the great Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (c.1265-1321), can be seen a someone presenting his fellow Christians with a unique theology through his masterpiece: La Divina Commedia

Prof. Alan Ford takes the religious history of Ireland as an example of how important is for historians to examine religious dimension of the past societies -- and how that religious history impacts on historians

Anyone reading the historical books of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament can be shocked that warfare figures so prominently in the writings held by many as sacred. Dr Carly Crouch examines how warfare was understood within the religious worldview of ancient Israel.

Professor Philip Goodchild argues that way we use money amounts to a belief system, and what we say about money is, in fact, a form of theology.

The Pharisees led an important religious movement in ancient Judaism around the time of Jesus. Here Prof. Roland Deines discusses their beliefs, their practices, and their influence -- in particular in relationship to Jesus of Nazareth.

Prophecy was a major institution in the religion of ancient Israel, and the writings left by the prophets make up a major part of the collection known by some as 'the Hebrew Bible' and by others as 'the Old Testament.'

Jesus, a Jewish teacher from Nazareth in Galilee, is one of the central religious figures of history. Here Prof. Roland Deines discusses what we know of his life.

'The Hebrew Bible' is the name given to the collection of ancient writings that come from Judaism and constitute 'the bible' for Jews and which makes up the major part of the 'Old Testament' read by Christians.

John Milbank introduces the significance of Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), one of major Catholic theologians of the last century whose work inspires theologians far beyond the boundaries of Catholicism.

There are many Christian Churches which have ancient roots, but about which western Christians are almost wholly unaware. Here Dr Mary Cunningham seeks to draw attention to the ancient Churches of Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Egypt and Ethiopia.