Put off by increases in university tuition fees?
Looking for a Christian environment in which to study Theology and a name you can trust?
Spurgeon’s College is pleased to offer a new Bachelor's Degree which is broader than just ministerial training. This Degree course is suitable for school leavers and others seeking to study Theology as an academic discipline.
Click here for more information or contact Sarah Prior: s.prior@spurgeons.ac.uk, tel: 020 8683 8462.
Find out more at the Spurgeon's College Open Days on Saturdays 3 March or 12 May.
On Wednesday 29 February at 11.15am the annual Whitley Lecture will be given by Dr Ian Randall, Senior Research Fellow at Spurgeon’s College. The title is
Religious Liberty in Continental Europe: Campaigning by British Baptists, 1840s to 1930s The lecture looks at how British Baptists expressed solidarity with their persecuted dissenting brothers and sisters in Europe from the 1840s to the 1930s. British Baptists did not simply offer moral and spiritual support to the cause of religious liberty. They also campaigned actively for freedom by forming alliances with influential political figures – considered controversial by many Christians – and by cooperating with other bodies (such as the Evangelical Alliance, formed in 1846) to maximise their impact. Neither was the concern of British Baptists just with the persecution of other Baptists – they advocated liberty of conscience more widely. All this is important today, for our own freedom of belief in an era of religious disenchantment. J. H. Rushbrooke, a Baptist leader who was deeply involved in working for religious freedom in Eastern Europe, believed that ‘the price of liberty is eternal vigilance’ and in the 1930s identified the primary obstacles to liberty for British Baptists as apathy and ignorance from within, and atheism and totalitarianism from without. These issues are still with us today and we need to find new ways to address them so that we can sustain our core commitments to justice and freedom of conscience in the 21st century.
On Saturday 3 March we will have our next Open Day. We expect that our new brochure will be ready on time to be given out to those who attend. Our chef is already preparing his famous lunch. For more details click here.
The latest Spurgeon's student to be featured in the press is Bernard Duah who graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in June. Bernard has studied part-time towards his degree over six years while working as both a lay prison chaplain and taxi driver.
This remarkable combination has caught the eye of The Croydon Advertiser which features Bernard's story on page 3 of the current edition. We cannot provide a link to this story for legal reasons but a search for 'Bernard Duah Croydon Advertiser' will provide you with a link to the story.
Click here for a photo of Bernard behind the wheel of his cab in graduation gown and mortar board!
Quality in Formation, the ecumenical validation agency, undertook an inspection at the College in March of this year. The report of the inspection has now been published and gives Spurgeon's the highest quality rating. The recommendations made in the report are, it says, 'designed to encourage a very good College to become even better'. To read the full report click here.
The contributors engage with aspects of Nigel Wright’s life and work, in particular on issues such as the Evangelical movement, the church, Anabaptism, evil, the difference between baptist and Baptist, and ministerial formation. They do not just eulogise but engage in critical dialogue.
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