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    BA Honours in Theology
  • This study programme can be completed in 12 or 18 months. It consists of 5 examination papers.
  • An accredited bachelors degree in Theology, with Greek and Hebrew at the first-year level, is required.
  • Learners will have a choice of three papers from a selection of papers offered by the ATS.
  • At UJ, the learner will have a choice of two papers from a selection of seven papers offered by the Biblical Studies Department.
    • Paper 1 (First Semester)
      • Practical Theology:
        Pastoral care: Pastoral counselling, cross-cultural and group counselling, mental health care. Church management and Church leadership.
      • Missiology:
        Missionary communication. Urban missionary work
    • Paper 2 (Second Semester)
      • New Testament:
        Pentecostal hermeneutics. Exegesis. Biblical content in counselling.
      • Old Testament:
        Theology. Exegesis
    • Paper 3 (Second Semester)
      • Dogmatics:
        The doctrine of the Holy Spirit. The ministries in the church. Sanctification. The doctrine of the end time.
      • Church History:
        Methodology of Historiography. An assignment on a theme of the candidates own choice. Pentecostalists, Neo-Pentecostalists, independent black churches in Southern Africa, African Theology.
    • Paper 4 (First Semester)
      • Practical Theology:
        The unique nature of Christian counselling.
    • Paper 5 (Second Semester)
      • Practical Theology:
        The church as charismatic body, church management, church growth.
    • Paper 6 (First Semester)
      • Dogmatics:
        Dogmatic and Ethical themes
    • Paper 7 (First Semester)
      • Practical Theology:
        Liturgical themes and ministries of the Church
    • Paper 8 (Second Semester)
      • Practical Theology:
        Marriage and Family counselling
    • Paper 9 (Second Semester)
      • Church History:
        Themes from the history of dogma: the doctrine of the end time, the doctrine of the church, the offices.
    • Paper 10 (First Semester)
      • Missionary Science:
        Mission in the city: Theology and practice.
    • Paper 11 (Second Semester)
      • New Testament:
        Contemporary hermeneutic models.
    • Paper 12 (First Semester)
      • Old Testament:
        Perspectives on worship.
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