School of Theology English
Featured
Courses
Jan–Jun 2025
Do you want to renew your thinking on current issues or update your theological training?
Every semester, SOTE makes a selection of our courses available to alumni and interested individuals without requiring them to be currently enrolled in an SBC programme.
Whether you are our alumni or have not taken any of our postgraduate programmes, you are welcome to register for these electives at the School of Theology English.
- Wednesday evenings
- 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
- Online or Onsite (in SBC)
- REGISTER NOW
Old Testament Studies III
This course provides handholds for studying and preaching the prophetic books. It covers the lives of the writing prophets in the context of the covenant life of Israel with God amidst its surrounding nations; theological themes and literary patterns; close studies on key passages; and prophetic treatment of motifs.
PREREQUISITES:
- For credit: OT Studies I (Pentateuch) or equivalent
- For audit: No requirement
Dr. Jean Luah
Jean K. Luah (PhD, Durham, UK) is a full-time faculty member. Her research areas are in hermeneutics and interdisciplinary studies. Besides the Hermeneutics course, she also teaches Biblical Greek, Old Testament Studies, and Systematic Theology. She co-hosts SBC’s podcast series, Mosaic.
- Weekday nights
- 26–30 May & 2–4 June 2025
- 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
- Online or Onsite (in SBC)
- REGISTER NOW
Creation Care: Theology, Implications, Practice
This introduction to creation care explores theological and biblical justifications for Christian concern for the environment. God’s redemptive plan for the cosmos places humankind at the centre and there are implications for our lifestyles. The course combines in-class discussion, academic publications, video clips, and contributions from local practitioners.
Dr. Paul Woods
Paul Woods is an outward-facing Theological Educator at Large with OMF. He works with PhD and Master’s students, mostly in East Asia. He has one doctorate in Chinese Corpus Linguistics and another in Biblical Theology. Ecotheology is the research area about which he is most passionate.
- Weekdays
- 21–23 May & 26–30 May 2025
- 10:00 a.m .to 12:30 p.m.
- Online or Onsite (in SBC)
- REGISTER NOW
The Global God and Gospel
Christian faith is still viewed in much of the non-Western world as “the white man’s religion.” In reality, the foreignness of Christianity as an imperial imposition stems from the inability to see how the pages of the Bible reveal a global God and gospel that speak to every tongue, tribe, and people. This course will explore how the Bible does contextual theology in offering answers to every society’s philosophical, religious, and existential questions.
Rev. Dr. Jerry Hwang
Jerry Hwang (PhD, Wheaton College) served at SBC from 2010 to 2023 as a faculty member and academic dean. Currently, he teaches at Trinity Christian College in Chicago, Illinois while continuing to participate in SBC’s Advanced Studies department as affiliate research professor. He is the author or editor of five books, among them commentaries on Hosea (2021) and Jeremiah (2022), as well as the award-winning work Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives (2022).
- Wednesdays
- 10:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
- Onsite (in SBC)
- REGISTER NOW
Asian Church History
This course traces the coming of Christianity to Asia, shifts in the political scenes, the challenge of nationalism, and the struggle to make Christianity viable. It will examine the history of missions, focusing on missionaries, events, and epochs that reflect key issues in missions today, and Christianity’s impact on Asian soil.
Dr. Violet James
Violet James (PhD, Aberdeen) wrote on her doctoral dissertation on missions and the response to the Vietnam War. She served as professor of church history at SBC till her retirement in 2019. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer at SBC and an associate pastoral staff at Yio Chu Kang Chapel.
Course Fees*
Credit(s) Course Tuition fee (w/GST): S$523.20 (3 credit units)
Audit Course Tuition fee (w/GST): S$359.70
* Credit course participants can earn credit units that are transferable to our programmes. No credit/s will be awarded for audit class takers.
Registration Requirements
The following category of applicants will be considered for eligibility of admission as special students:
- SBC alumni recommended by their churches or organizations to do certain courses for the sake of their ministries.
- Pastors and Missionaries on furlough. These special students may be allowed to attend just certain portions of a course, as long as they may benefit from the course if their furlough schedules do not fit our semester schedule. Pastors on sabbatical leave may apply to attend courses as special students for a semester or two.
- Staff of churches, mission organizations, and para-church organizations that are recommended by the organization to attend certain courses for the sake of the ministry of that organization.
- Spouses of International full-time students only.
- Students from another seminary who are recommended by the seminary to attend certain courses to fulfil requirements that allow them to complete the programme of that seminary.
- Leaders of a church or parachurch organization in a leadership position who are recommended by the organization to attend certain courses for the sake of the ministry of that organization.
- Applicants enrolled into the courses are to abide by the Academic Policy and Guidelines set by the respective schools.
- Applicants will have to register and make payment for the Library Membership Fee in order to use the library facilities.
Closing date : 30 Nov 2024 (Extended)
SOTE/SOC/SCM/ThM Courses
Application for Jan semester – closing date 1 Nov
Application for July semester – closing date 1 May
For each approved application, applicant can take 3-6 credits course per semester up to 2 consecutive semesters. Only alumni, pastors and missionaries can renew the application subsequently for courses to be taken as audit.
For each approved application, applicant can take 3-6 credits per semester up to 2 consecutive semesters. Only alumni, pastors and missionaries can renew the application subsequently for courses to be taken as audit.
Transfer of Credits
- Special students can transfer a maximum of 12 credits taken that do not exceed one-third of the total credits of any programme.
- The request is subject to the Dean’s approval based on transfer credits guidelines.?
Please download the appropriate form:
For any enquiries, please contact us at reg@sbc.edu.sg.
