Online courses in religion and theology
Study from anywhere in the world with an online course.
Our short online courses in religion and theology include live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools, and flexible online courses.
Credit earned from some of these courses is transferable towards our Certificate of Higher Education - a part-time undergraduate course in which you study a main subject discipline, but also undertake study in other academic subjects.
Browse below to find the online religion and theology course for you.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
In a time when migrants are often seen as threats or competitors, this day school will invite reflection on ways that the Bible pictures migrants: as those whom God loves, as bringers of blessing, and as at the core of what it means to be God's people.
- Sat 22 Jun 2024
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - flexible • Short courses
How can we begin to understand the spiritual lives of prehistoric people? When do religious ideologies first appear on the human evolutionary timescale? Using both anthropology and archaeological evidence these and many other questions are examined.
- Mon 16 Sep 2024 – 29 Nov 2024
Online - live • Short courses
The Bible is the most important single source of English literature: on this course you will read a range of writers from the sixteenth century to the present day to discern their abiding by, or deciphering of, this 'Great Code of Art' (William Blake).
- Tue 19 Sep 2023 – 28 Nov 2023
- 11 meetings
- 1:30 – 2:30pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Discover the radical legacy of James H. Cone as the grand patriarch of Black theology. Explore the underlying philosophical and theological ideas that have shaped this discipline and form of religious activism. Watch online or join us in Oxford.
- Sat 14 Oct 2023
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
Discover the art and architecture of Rome from the first appearance of Christian forms in third-century catacombs to thirteenth-century large-scale churches, exploring these buildings as repositories of imagery. Six lectures with John McNeill.
- Tue 31 Oct 2023 – 05 Dec 2023
- 11:00am – 12:15pm
Also available
Religion and theology
Short courses in religion and theology at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford.Theological Studies
Bachelor of Theology, Undergraduate Certificate in Theological Studies, and Undergraduate Diploma in Theological Studies. Together these three courses constitute a coherent programme of studies. All three may be studied either full-time or part-time.