What is the course like?

What are its Overall Aims?

In general the STETS Course exists to:

• educate students to engage critically and constructively with:
  • the resources of the Christian tradition and other systems of belief,
  • the norms of Christian belief and practice,
  • and their own place in the worship, life and mission of the Church;
• train students to exercise a skilful, reflective and empowering ministry marked by wisdom, empathy and compassion and exemplified in a capacity for collaboration, co-responsibility and mutual commitment with others;
• form students to participate responsibly in the mission of the Church by integrating their learning and ministry within the particularities, complexities and adversities of their own lives and the lives of their communities.

The education, training and formation provided by the STETS Course is founded on three 'pillars':

• study by distance learning modules;
• reflective practice; and
• centre-based learning.

Training ministers play an vital part in helping to build and maintain the second of these 'pillars'.

 

 

STETS is an Associated Institution of the University of Surrey

The Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme - www.stets.ac.uk