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Teaching Theology and Religious Studies Is There A Problem?
Author(s) -
Thrower James
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00047
Subject(s) - confessional , relevance (law) , catholic theology , sociology , comparative theology , religious studies , theology , political science , philosophy , law , politics
This paper discusses a problem which is largely, though not exclusively, peculiar to the older universities in Great Britain where, in recent years, many long‐established departments of Christian theology have expanded their area of responsibility to include religious studies. However, the author believes that what he has to say is not without relevance to universities and colleges outside of Great Britain which have inherited and continue to maintain a confessional bias in teaching theology and religion.