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DR302F: CHRISTIANITY IN SCOTLAND: HISTORY AND THEOLOGY OF THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND (2018-2019)

Last modified: 22 May 2019 17:07


Course Overview

This course intends to provide students a theologically informed understanding of the history of Christianity in Scotland, with special
reference to its development since the 15th century. Students will be introduced to central features of the intellectual and cultural history of
Scottish Christianity, and they will receive training in standard academic modes of theological and historical analysis.  Download Course Guide

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Programme Level 3
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • DR301R Christianity in Scotland: Historical and Theological Explorations (Studied)
  • DR351R Christianity in Scotland: Historical and Theological Explorations (Studied)
  • DR352F Christianity in Scotland: History & Theology of the Church in Scotland (Studied)
  • DR402F Christianity in Scotland: History & Theology of the Church in Scotland (Studied)
  • DR452F Christianity in Scotland: History & Theology of the Church in Scotland (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course explores the history of Christianity in Scotland since the 15th century through analysis of its leading cultural and theological features,
such as the social-political and theological factors of leading to and issuing from the Scottish Reformation; the interpretation and
influence of the Reformed confessions of faith; the relation of church and state in the seventeenth-century; the impact of the
Scottish Enlightenment on the intellectual life of the Scottish churches; the Great Disruption; and Scottish theological scholarship
from Protestant Orthodoxy to the present.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt

  • 1500-word expository essay (30%)
  • 2500-word research essay (60%)
  • Seminar participation (10%)

Resit

  • 4000-word research essay (100%)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

Feedback will be given by course instructors in the form of personal conversation with students in seminar, detailed written comments on all submitted written work.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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