Overview
At King's you will find a broad range of overlapping areas of research. Students can pursue traditional areas of study through:
- Theology (Systematics; Philosophical Theology; Patristics and Medieval Theology; History of Christianity in the reformation and modern period; Biblical Theology, Ethics, Business Ethics, and Christianity and the Arts)
- Biblical Studies (literary, ideological and theological approaches to the Hebrew Bible; Second Temple Judaism, gender and the Dead Sea Scrolls; New Testament studies, including biography, genre, environment and ethics).
Central to our department, too, is the social scientific study of religion (anthropology, sociology, history and politics), together with philosophy of religion, the world of Jews in modern Europe, contemporary Islamic thought, and Chinese religions.
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Theology and Religious Studies Department was ranked 3rd in the UK for research excellence and 1st in the UK for our research environment (REF 2021). 100% of our research environment was rated ‘world leading (4*) and 91% of our research was rated either ‘world leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).
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Current number of academic staff: 28
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Current number of research students: 120
- Partner organisations : London School of Jewish Studies & Leo Baeck College, and the National Gallery.