What is distinctive about the Course?

In the academic year 1999-2000 STETS introduced a wholly new integrated programme offering training in Christian ministry and mission. This was revised and updated in 2003-4, and a corresponding MA pathway was added in 2005.

The fundamental orientation of STETS training is:

• Theological and doxological - rooted in God and in God's praise, and therefore:
• Missiological - directed towards God's world, and therefore
• Contextual - focused on the particular situations in which you are called to serve; and
• Ecumenical and collaborative - committed to ever-widening shared participation in Christian mission and ministry.

As programmes designed for adults, our BA (Honours) and MA courses take seriously what you already know about the Christian faith through your participation in the life of the church as well as through prior study. They provide you with ways of relating what you already know to wider perspectives drawn from the whole Christian tradition. They also give you a range of training and formational opportunities. These enable you both to become a skilled ministerial practitioner and to 'embody' your skills and understanding within the Church of God. Thus at STETS you will find that you do theology through taking part in Christian worship and engaging with specific aspects of society, as well as through rigorous critical study of the Christian tradition.

Our programmes are related to what Christians believe about God and how God relates to the world. They are designed to train you for ministry and mission based on the conviction that the triune God loves the whole world, and that Christians are called to share in all that God wills and works for it.

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