The balance is important and we try to get it right. The department as a whole in its attitudes and syllabus is emphatically pluralistic. This pluralism is reflected in our student body which comprises ordinands and atheists, Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs, conservative or liberal. Our chief concern is to help people think creatively about what they believe and why. It is essential to take the basic tenets of religion seriously and we pay special attention to the study of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures.
Biblical work is, then, a major constituent of the course.