This is an optional module (20 credits) on the MA in Aspects of Biblical Interpretation. 

The module aims to:

• lead the student into a critical assessment of contemporary attempts to produce an adequate Christian commentary on the phenomenon of poverty and the associated experience of oppression; 
• engage with the hermeneutical complexities of socio-political decisionmaking; 
• foster and develop informed evaluation of the solutions proposed to contemporary socio-political problems; 
• stimulate a student’s passion and life-long engagement with issues of injustice, poverty, inequality, and the abuse of power.