Westminster Theological Centre (WTC) is a not-for-profit, interdenominational, theological college with the vision of making theological study accessible to church leaders and members across the UK.
Our goal is to equip and empower people of all ages and backgrounds for leadership, mission, and discipleship and, through this, to effect personal and community transformation. WTC offers part-time, university-accredited qualifications in theology to around 230-250 students per year.
This quote captures the essence of academic theology as WTC teaches it:
"By ‘theology’ we mean … the intellectual discipline of asking who God is and what the world is like in the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and consequently how we should live before God in the world. Theology is the hard intellectual work of asking what it means to believe that in Jesus Christ - God the Son walked among us as one of us, died for our sins, rose again on the third day, ascended to the right hand of the Father, sent his Spirit upon the church, and will return one day to bring in his kingdom.
If this story is true then it changes everything. Theology is the task of exploring that change."Colin E. Gunton, Stephen R. Holmes, Murray A. Rae (eds.)
The Practice of Theology: A Reader. London: SCM Press, 2001
We are a member of the Evangelical Alliance, the largest body serving evangelical Christians in the UK: working for a united Church, confident in voice and inspired for mission, www.eauk.org.
We subscribe to the Evangelical Alliance basis of faith.
The 2-year CertHE is for those with no prior Higher Education experience who would like to go deeper in their faith.
The full 6-year BA(Hons) degree programme is ideal for those with no prior Higher Education experience.
The 2-year GradDip is for those without a theology degree. With optional Church Planting and Leadership track.
The MA, with taught modules taken over 2 or 3 years, is for those who already have a degree or GradDip in theology.
The 1-year Foundations Course is for those who wish to explore the foundations of the Christian faith.