See below for the individual units (subjects) currently available. Please go to Courses for information on our undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We encourage you to contact our registrars to start a conversation about what units might best suit your needs.
Units are available in the following modes:
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AQF: 6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Monday + Thursday Daytime Unit
LA006-612/812
In this unit we continue our introduction and experience in reading the language in which the New Testament was written. This prepares you to read straightforward parts of the Greek New Testament for yourself, be equipped for consulting New Testament commentaries based on the Greek text and reading books which discuss or refer to Greek words and expressions. New Testament Greek is a prerequisite for the study of degree New Testament units with Greek exegesis in the Bachelor of Theology and Master of Divinity...
SMBC Certificate, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Monday Daytime Unit
CP01b
AQF: 7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Monday Daytime Unit
OT042-712/812/912 + OT046-712/812/912
1 & 2 Samuel are often seen as the most literarily sophisticated books of the Bible. Gripping stories of Samuel, Saul and David combine to describe the dawn of Israel's monarchy. The central character, however, is God himself. And the obvious focus on history is actually made subordinate to communicating life-changing theology. Ultimately, God's choice of David forms an essential backdrop for understanding Jesus as messiah and king...
AQF: 5/6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Monday Daytime Unit
NT002-512/612/812
The church is far from perfect, whether we have in mind the early church or the church today. How did the church get started? What issues did those first Christians struggle with? How did God use his people to spread the light of the gospel from its beginnings in Judea and Jerusalem to the very heart of the Roman Empire?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Tuesday Daytime Unit
NT024-612/712/812 (English) + NT025-612/712/812 (Greek) + NT205-912 (Capstone) + NT206-912 (Specialised Studies) + NT207-912 (Original Language Specialised Studies)
Want to explore in more depth the thorny issues raised in Paul's letter to the Corinthians and the theological depth of Hebrews? How did the values in 1st century Corinth impact the Corinthian church and their view of the Christian life and spiritual gifts? Why did the writer to the Hebrews warn them about falling away?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Tuesday Daytime Unit
EM026-612/712/812 + EM205-912 (Capstone) + EM206-912 (Specialised Studies)
As we read Paul's missionary journeys in the book of Acts, we see that his ministry trips to cities resulted not just in people coming to faith, but in local churches being established. Much of the New Testament consists of Paul writing to these churches. This dynamic has led many to agree with Tom Hale, a medical missionary to Nepal, who wrote, "The essential core ministry in missions is the winning of people to Christ and forming them into congregations—that is, evangelism and church planting"...
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Tuesday Daytime Unit
CH002-512/612/812
We can only properly make sense of our present if we understand our past. Our numerous Protestant denominations only make sense if we understand the Reformation of the 16th Century. Whether we identify ourselves as modern or post-modern, we are indebted to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century. Our ability to understand the American Presidential race depends in part on how well we have grasped the rise of fundamentalism in the 19th Century...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Wednesday Daytime Unit
TH002-612/712/812 + TH206-912 (Specialised Studies)
Theology affects all of life. It is intensely practical. It answers the meaning of life questions such as, 'Who am I? What is my purpose? How can I live well?' – by stepping back to see the centrality of God himself to our lives and the universe. As Augustine said, 'You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.'
AQF: 5/6/8, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Wednesday Daytime Unit
NT002-512/612/812
The church is far from perfect, whether we have in mind the early church or the church today. How did the church get started? What issues did those first Christians struggle with? How did God use his people to spread the light of the gospel from its beginnings in Judea and Jerusalem to the very heart of the Roman Empire?..
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Wednesday Daytime Unit
EM014-612/712/812 + EM205-912 (Capstone) + EM206-912 (Specialised Studies)
Are you teaching, training, or discipling anyone from a different cultural background than your own? Or do you think you might be in the next few years? If so, this unit is designed to equip you to do this well...
SMBC Certificate, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Thursday Daytime Unit
CM07
God has a global mission! And that means that we, as God’s people, also have a mission. But to know how we fit in, we need to understand what God has done, is doing and will do...
AQF: 6/7/8/9 hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM060-612/712/812 + EM205-912 (Capstone) + EM206-912 (Specialised Studies)
Our God is a God of mission. The gospel is for people of every nation, tribe and tongue, in Australia and to the ends of the earth. We all affirm it but how should it impact our lives and our churches here? Should we just focus on our own neighbourhood and let others work out the rest? What does it look like to faithfully serve God’s global mission at home? What is our role locally and further afield?...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Thursday Daytime Unit
EM021-612/712/812 + EM205-912 (Capstone) + EM206-912 (Specialised Studies)
Over 4 billion people in the world follow traditional religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Perhaps God has given you an interest in helping people in these religions find Jesus? This unit will help you do that. In it, we explore the basic beliefs, practices, and some deeply held assumptions of Animists, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims...
AQF: 6/8, on-campusSEMESTER 2 2024
Friday Daytime Unit
LA004-612/812
This unit continues building a solid framework for engaging with Biblical Hebrew texts in their original language. By completing both Biblical Hebrew A (Semester 1) and B, students will be in a position to work directly with the Hebrew scriptures, and to continue translation and exegesis of Old Testament texts. After these units, students will be able to take Old Testament exegesis units in the Hebrew stream...
AQF: 6/7/8/9, hybridSEMESTER 2 2024
Friday Daytime Unit
TH103-612/712/812 + TH205-912 (Capstone) + TH206-912 (Specialised Studies)
There is no more important question in life than, “What must I do to be saved?” The doctrines of grace are concerned with God’s plan of salvation from election through to glorification, through which he brings about his eternal purposes for his creation, and in particular, for those he has chosen by grace to be his people. They also describe how the finished work of Jesus Christ is applied by the regenerating and sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit to the believer, who by virtue of their union with Christ, is justified, adopted and perfected to share in his glory...
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One Body: Unifying the Global Church in Mission