Distance M.A. in Religious Experience

My supervisor just brought the Alister Hardy Trust to my attention, and I happened to notice that they co-sponsor an M.A. program in religious experience with the University of Wales, Lampeter:
http://www.alisterhardytrust.org.uk/M_A__Course/m_a__course.html

Looks intriguing to me and, unlike most of Lampeter's DL offerings, seems to require no time in Wales.


Cheers,

 

Tom

Hey Tom:

You may already be aware of this. I just wrote to UW @ L and they informed me that the MA in theology there (probably most of the others...?) can be completed totally via DL. I was inquiring about the DMin, which requires some courses. Those courses, which are the requirement for the first three years' assessment, are essentially the same as the MA in theology. So for the DMin, at least, they customize it for completion IYHO so that the DMin can be completed completely IYHO.



Yours,

Chris

 

"Christopher Green, M.A. ... TEDS '01"

TEDS? Just curious as to what it stands for. (A Google search found 44,800 sites, including Turtle Excluding Devices for Shrimpers to Ted's Excellent Delivery Service, but I did not look at them all.)

 

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield,Illinois

 

Re: Tom

This is very good news, Christopher--thanks!


Cheers,

 

Thanks for posting this, Tom.

I'm very much interested in religion, but less in the arcane theological disputes within particular traditions than in what it is that connects all of these colorful helium balloons to us down here on the earth.

I'm most interested in precisely those sort of issues that cut across the traditions: in issues of religious experience, its philosophical cognitivity, and in how these things are related to the whole range of elaborated theological traditions. Foundational issues, in other words.

This program, if it indeed wouldn't necessitate a journey to Wales (not a bad thing, actually), might be of interest to me. I already have one MA and don't need another, but the degree wouldn't really be the point. (I've transcended degrees, I guess. LOL)

The Alister Hardy Trust certainly has an all-star lineup of individuals willing to associate their names with it:

The Patrons of the Alister Hardy Trust are:
-    The Most Revd. & Rt. Hon. Dr. George Carey, Archbishop of      Canterbury,
-    The Rt. Revd. Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford,
-    His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
-    His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor , Archbishop of               Westminster,
-    Bronwen Viscountess Astor,
-    Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr,
-    The Revd. Dr. John A. Newton,
-    The Hon. Jonathon Porritt,
-    Lord Rees-Mogg,
-    Rabbi Professor Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi,
-    Swami Chidanand Saraswati,
-    The Rt. Revd. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Wales.

 

For John Bear...

Thanks John Bear, for the question.

Should I make that one explicit? Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield IL. Affectionately known as "TEDS" by those who know the schools' graduates. "MBC" is Multnomah Bible College, of which I'm sure you are familiar, since you used to coach at Reed.

Chris Green