Program

Pastoral – Pedagogical Program, Eastern Christian Studies

The studies are full-time and take four years. The first two years will take place at Sankt Ignatios College in Södertälje. During this period, you will study academic courses as well as college courses (folk high school). You study together with others from various Orthodox traditions, but with good opportunities to focus on your own tradition. You will study subjects such as:

Pastoral theology
Practical liturgics (Syriac, Byzantine, Coptic, Tewahedo)
Pedagogy
Church languages, your own and Greek.
Church history
Sources of the faith: The apostolic scriptures (including the Bible), patristics, liturgics and ecclesiology.

From the third year and onwards most courses will be facilitated at Stockholm School of Theology. Here you will take courses such as:

Text, context and interpretation
Philosophy, theology and mission in the history of the church
The history of the Eastern and Oriental Churches
Eastern and Oriental Christian liturgics and ecclesiology
Methodology
Bachelor thesis

While you take the academic courses during year three and four, you will continue with your education and training at the community college as well as studying your church language.

You can find out more about the program here.