- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Course location
- Bonn
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are held in English (100%).
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 2 semesters, 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Application deadline
- First deadline: 30 April
(This is also the deadline for the MESt Faculty Scholarship. Details are available on the homepage.)
Final deadline: 1 July
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- None
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- The Master's programme in (Extended) Ecumenical Studies (MESt) covers a field of knowledge entailing the following concepts:
• the plurality of Christianities
• the plurality of European and non-European churches and theologies
• the plurality of religious differences in general and in their cultural contexts
• the main concepts of the types of unity of churches/Christianity to be desired
• the ideas regarding the peaceful and respectful interactions of religions
Students will be introduced to key aspects of biblical and theological interpretation, as well as to poignant developments in church history, in order to equip them with the tools necessary to make advances in the interest of ecumenism. Lecturers will devote special attention to the insights and methodology of German theology, owing to the singular influence of German-language research on theological scholarship worldwide.
The MESt is offered by the Faculty of Protestant Theology in cooperation with the Centre for Religion and Society ("Zentrum für Religion und Gesellschaft – ZERG") at the University of Bonn. Professors and lecturers from the Faculties and Departments of Protestant and Catholic Theology, Philosophy, the Seminary of Old Catholic Theology, and from the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany contribute to the teaching of the programme.