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Union

MA in Theology Programme

12 March 2025, 9:30-3:00pm

Registration Cost: Free

Join Us For Our 2025

Student Research Colloquium

The Master of Arts in Theology degree serves to equip students for ministry by engaging Scripture and theology, and applying them to the pressing issues of the day.

Join us for this one-day event that will showcase the outstanding research of our final-year MA students. It offers them valuable experience presenting at an academic conference while putting on display the character and rigour of the programme.

We welcome students and faculty of Union Theological College, as well as pastors, friends, and prospective students in our community, to join us in celebrating the careful work of these students.

Response Panelists

A distinctive feature of the Colloquium is its respondent format. This format ensures that each presenter receives thoughtful engagement from an established scholar or minister, while the responses help frame the Q&A that follows each session.

Dennis Greeson

Dean of the BibleMesh Institute, MA in Theology programme coordinator and a Research Associate at Union Theological College.

Nathan Wallace

Research associate at the Christian Institute, and a recognised teacher at Union Theological College, Belfast.

Graham Shearer

Lecturer in Theology and a postgraduate research supervisor at Union Theological College.

Philip Boyd

Recognised Teacher and Minister of McQuiston Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Student Research Colloquium

Programme Schedule

Welcome - 9:30am

Dennis Greeson, MA in Theology programme co-ordinator, will introduce our colloquium.

Unit 1 - 9:35-10:30am

Session 1 - Emma Bostock

The Transcendence of Gender: A Thomist Critique of Second Wave Feminism

Session 2 - Jonathan Middleton

Edifice Complex: A Theology of Church Edifices and the Edification of the Church

Response Panel:

Graham Shearer and Dennis Greeson.

Coffee - 10:30-11:00am

Opportunities to meet faculty and students

Unit 2 – 11:00-12:00pm

Session 1 - Tadhg Lynch

Organic Mystery: The Path toward Subjective Receipt of Objective Truth in the Work of Herman Bavinck

Session 2 - Andy Gemmill

Sanctification as Relocation: An Exploration of the Integrative and Imaginative Power of Sanctification's Spatial Grammar

Response Panel:

Nathan Wallace and Philip Boyd

Lunch - 12:00-1:30pm

A light soup and sandwich lunch at Union's cafe. Another opportunity to meet faculty and students

Unit 3 – 1:30-3:00pm

Dennis Greeson will give a brief overview of the MA in Theology programme.

Session 1 - Robbie Laidlaw

Faith Unrooted: A Critical Analysis of Andrew Root's Doctrine of Faith

Session 2 - Miriam Fisher

Neo-Calvinism and Christ’s Centrality for Earthkeeping (online)

Response Panel:

Graham Shearer and Nathan Wallace

Book Giveaway!

Reformed Dogmatics, 4 Volume Set, Deluxe Edition. Herman Bavinck.

The winner will be drawn after lunch, before Unit 3. To enter, simply register below and attend the Student Research Colloquium event.

Register

Dr. Dennis Greeson

If you would like more information about our MA in Theology programme, or have any questions, please email: dgreeson@union.ac.uk

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Excellent! We look forward to seeing you on the 12 March.


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