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Research Programmes

Rev Dr Phil Meadows Rev Dr Jack Jackson

MPhil and PhD

Cliff College has a successful and growing research degree programme, validated by the University of Manchester, with students working at both MPhil and PhD levels, part-time and full-time, in the UK and overseas. We are particularly encouraging applications in the following areas of study, which represent the specialisms and broad research interests of our supervisors:

  • Mission, Evangelism and Church Leadership
  • Missionary Ecclesiology, Emerging Church, and Postmodern Culture
  • Theology of Religions, Interreligious Dialogue, and New-Age Spirituality
  • Wesleyan and Methodist Studies
  • Old and New Testament Biblical Studies


Current research projects include:

  • Emerging Church Conversation and the Congregational Way

  • A Missiological Examination of Revivalism

  • Church of England Church Plants 1987-2000

  • Early Methodist Evangelism in a Pluralistic Culture

  • John Wesley’s Class Meetings

  • Repetition as Narrative Tactic in 1 Samuel 28

  • Analysis of Psalm 49, a Speech-Act Approach

  • Can an Industrial Chaplain be an Evangelist?

  • Spiritual Warfare in a Postmodern Age

  • Theology from Kibera: Theological Attention to Liberative Voices among the Hoi Polloi of a Kibera Slum in Nairobi City, Kenya

 

Recently completed research degrees include:

  • An Evaluation of a Model of Consultancy to help Churches become Mission Orientated Congregations
  • Jeremiah’s Kings – A study of the Book’s Treatment of the Monarchy with Special Reference to Chapters 21-24.
  • Third Wave: A Case Study of Romantic Narratives within Late Twentieth Century Charismatic Evangelicalism

For More information about any of the Postgraduate courses we offer please contact our Postgraduate Administrator by phone or email.