Study
The context in which you do theology impacts on the way that you do it. The strength of the College of the Resurrection is that it provides you with several contrasting contexts.
A worshipping community
The most obvious context is that of a worshipping community. As day by day we hear the scriptures, sing the psalms, celebrate the Eucharist, and meditate on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so also we wrestle with the questions that arise, reading the Fathers of the Church and contemporary theologians and talking through with one another the social and political issues of the day.
The pastoral task
A second context is provided by the diverse settings within which our students learn to minister to others. Student placements in our local area ensure that the pastoral task is kept in sight, while our wider international links enrich our experience of the Church’s life and thought and provide settings for student placements around the world.
The University of Sheffield
Our students have the unique experience of two complementary ways of engaging with theology: in one of the UK's leading universities and alongside a monastic community.
College students take a third of their modules in the Department of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, benefiting from its world-class teaching and research.
The College enjoys close co-operation with the Department and the University, sharing in the department’s learning and teaching resources and in its research culture. Students of the College who are following undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes are registered with the University of Sheffield and have access to all its facilities, including the University Union, libraries and computer clusters.
The Yorkshire Ministry Course
The fourth element in the Theology and Pastoral Studies partnership is the Yorkshire Ministry Course, based in the College buildings. Much of the YMC’s teaching takes place at Mirfield, and tutors at the two institutions form a common teaching faculty, so all students are taught by lecturers from both College and Course, and a number of classes contain students from both institutions.