Christianity is no longer compulsory for Oxford Theology students
By Florence Taylor, Christian Today
Theology students at Oxford will no longer have to study Christianity after their first year of university, after pupils challenged the lack of diversity in the current course structure.
A “major driver” for implementing changes, which will allow students after the first year to abandon study of Christianty entirely, is “the dramatic change in the way religion is seen and practised in the UK,” according to Professor Johannes Zachhuber, the theology faculty’s board chairman.
“The dominance of the Church of England has been receding but at the same time religion hasn’t disappeared. We want to offer to potential students what is interesting for them and that has changed a lot in the last 30 years,” he told the Times Higher Education magazine.
Christianity will remain compulsory in the first year of the course, with two papers to be sat on the religion, however students will have free reign to choose a wide range of papers in the second and third years.
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