Upon completion of the Theology Teaching Degree program, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate competency in analyzing key elements of major Christian traditions, including Christology, sacramental theology, eschatology, and the prevailing hermeneutical approaches to scripture.
• Illustrate exegetical skills utilizing methods of contemporary biblical criticism.
• Discuss issues of Christianity’s engagement with culture through the prism of moral theology or questions of social justice.
• Identify key turning points in the history of Christian development from the period of the early Church to the present.
• Distinguish between and illustrate knowledge of the interpretive methods that characterize Theology and Religious Studies.
• Describe and interpret ways that theological systems, religious practices, and institutions reflect the cultures from which they emerge and adapt to cultural change.
• Compare theological claims and ritual practices from two or more religious systems.
• Analyze diverse and competing conceptions of truth from within a shared religious discursive community.
• Explain how appealing to transcendent authority has been used to reinforce and challenge the social order with a theology teacher's education
• Understand best practices to teach theology online, using our Canvas Learning System