Why Study Theology and Religious Studies

Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) was a German Lutheran theologian whose work highlighted the difficulties of treating early C... Read more

Prof. Richard Bell conveys his enthusiasm for the study of the letter of St Paul addressed to the Romans.

Dr Mary Cunningham talks about the Syrian Orthodox Church with Fr Samuel Issa (a priest in that church). This is a commu... Read more

Hermeneutics is the study of how to interpret texts that come from a different culture, time, language and world view.So... Read more

Jesus, a Jewish teacher from Nazareth in Galilee, is one of the central religious figures of history. Here Prof. Roland ... Read more

Icons – religious images from the eastern Churches – are far more than religious images as seen in western churches: the... Read more

Spinoza (1632-1677) is now remembered mainly as a philosopher. But he was also deeply concerned with religious and theol... Read more

Islam is one of the world’s great religions and references to it are constantly in the media, but it is also little unde... Read more

Henry Gagey, an expert in fundamental theology from the Institut Catholique in Paris, discusses why people take up the s... Read more

Prophecy was a major institution in the religion of ancient Israel, and the writings left by the prophets make up a majo... Read more

The mother of Jesus, Mary, is revered in many branches of Christianity as the all-holy Mother of God. In this video Dr M... Read more

There are many Christian Churches which have ancient roots, but about which western Christians are almost wholly unaware... Read more

'The Hebrew Bible' is the name given to the collection of ancient writings that come from Judaism and constitute 'the bi... Read more

John Milbank introduces the significance of Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), one of major Catholic theologians of the last ce... Read more

Professor Alan Ford introduces the notion of historiography: the history of history.By studying how historians have cons... Read more