Scholarships for Under-35s at Pilgrim Theological College

If you're are aged under 35 years, and you are associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, you are eligible to apply for a scholarship at Pilgrim Theological College.

You can read the details here.

Pilgrim is the UCA's theological college in its Victoria/Tasmania Synod. It is located in Parkville, adjacent to the Melbourne University precinct, and close to public transport.  It is a member college of the University of Divinity, Australia's only specialist university and a national leader in theological education and research.

Check out the 2018 Pilgrim Handbook for details of the Units on offer next year, and for an even quicker overview take a look at the 2018 Timetable. There you'll see that there is a combination of face-to-face weekly units, on-line distance education, and intensives. Here's a summary list:

Semester 1:

• New Testament Greek
• Memory, History and the Historians
• Trinity, Society and Dialogue
• Greek Sources of Western  Thought
• Life, History and the People of God in the Hebrew Scriptures
• Biblical Theology of Mission
• Fullness of Life: Spirituality in the Christian Tradition
• Philosophy for Understanding Theology
• Christianity's Big Ideas
• Children and Families Ministry
• Sex, Gender and Christian Doctrine
• Living Leadership: Managing Organisational Change Faithfully
• Reading and Interpreting Isaiah

Semester 2

• Reason and Revival
• Belief After Philosophy
• Earliest Christianity
• Discernment and Authority in the Christian Tradition
• Theology of Pastoral Care
• Hermeneutics
• Jesus, Discipleship and Justice
• The Art of Belief
• Developing Mission Theology for Today
• The Living People of God: Local, Global and Mission
• A Changed Climate for Theology
• The World of Hildegard of Bingen
• Art and Practice of Oral Storytelling
• Watching for God: Theology, the Bible and Film
• Gender, Justice and Empire: Contextual Readings of the Old Testament
• Thematic Study of the Old Testament
• Doctrine, Truth and Pluralism
• Sex and the Bible
• Thinking Otherwise: Feminist Theologies
• Effective Christian Leadership and Ministry
• The Nurture and Spiritual Guidance of  Children
• Formation for Christian Leadership

 Click here for details of the scholarships. Applications close on February 1st, 2018.