After 800 Years There Are Changes That Must Be Made, All In The Name Of Diversity.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519363/Oxford-theology-students-won-t-study-Christianity-degree-complaints-lack-diversity.html

Notice the examples used 'Buddhism in space and time' and even one called 'feminist approaches to religion and theology'.

Strange that there isn't one suggested such as the 'continuing rise of Islam in Britain, and it's effect on Christianity'.

[steg]

Diversity isn't always a bad thing, are you thinking about taking a theology course?

[fiction-factory]

I think Oxford University would know how to use an apostrophe.
Change isn't always a bad thing- courses should reflect changes in the world we know

[THECORBYLOON]

They'll be letting in women and foreigners next!!!!

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// They'll be letting in women and foreigners next!!!! ///

You really must get out more, they already do.

[sp1814]

Why would the increase in followers of Islam have any impact on Christianity?

[mushroom25]

//Diversity isn't always a bad thing//

i never rated them steg. SuBo should have won that year.

[steg]

Mushroom, it took a couple secs but lol

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Why would the increase in followers of Islam have any impact on Christianity? ///

I am really surprised that you needed to ask that.

Almost like asking, why would the increase of the followers of the Far-Right have any impact on the Left?

[sp1814]

AOG

No...please explain why the number of Muslims in the UK has an impact on Christianity.

[Old_Geezer]

It is strange that a theology student in a officially Christian country does not need to study any Christianity, but I guess theology is a wide enough subject to still be valid even so.

Breadth of knowledge is no bad thing as long as depth isn't sacrificed for it. There needs to be a balance or the area, breadth x depth is near zero and the studying less useful.

But some of these course titles given seem to smack of courses for the sake of it, like, I suspect, many art type courses are now. Traditional understanding of the religions of choice is surely a better basis for further study than what one particular group in society thinks of something.

[THECORBYLOON]

OG they need to study Christianity for the first year so it's not as if they do not study ANY Christianity.

[Peter Pedant]

erm arent they meant to know about christianity before they go up ?

anyway this URL I found more useful and had more value

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/12207311/Heartwarming-moment-elderly-wombat-rescued-after-being-attacked.html

leetel beaten up wombat gets rescued by some christians I suppose

[Peter Pedant]

and anyway the bishop of durham before last was famously an atheist wasnt he so the rot had set in years ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/393479.stm

[Togo]

//The Spanish government has published new guidelines for teaching Islam in public preschools and primary and secondary schools.
The guidelines are being touted as a way to prevent Muslim children and young people from being drawn into terrorism by exposing them to a "moderate" interpretation of Islam.
On closer inspection, however, the guidelines — drafted by the Islamic Commission of Spain and approved by the Ministry of Education — are aimed at stirring religious fervor and promoting Islamic identity among young Muslims in Spain.
The new plan, which is the most ambitious in all of Europe, amounts to a government-approved program to establish a full-fledged Islamic studies curriculum at public schools nationwide, at a time when Christian religious symbols are being systematically removed from Spanish public schools by official enforcers of secularism.//

It isn't just the UK. Germany next maybe. The script provided was sourced from the Gatestone Institute.

[Samuraisan]

In Spain parents have an option for their children to study religion or not from infants upwards. My GD does not , along with quite a few of her classmates. They are taken to the library in the school along with another teacher and practice reading and writing. She has jsut turned 6, is bilingual and can read and write.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"/// Why would the increase in followers of Islam have any impact on Christianity? ///

I am really surprised that you needed to ask that.

Almost like asking, why would the increase of the followers of the Far-Right have any impact on the Left?"

Do you think AoG's analogy is invalid, SP?