Christian graduate students and post-docs at Oxford currently do not have many opportunities to integrate their Christian faith and their studies, with the result that many may leave here without developing the capacity to think as Christians about their discipline, let alone more widely about societal and ethical issues. This is a serious failing when current intellectual norms are often rigidly and counter-productively "secular".

Developing a Christian Mind aims to remedy this by bringing together graduates and post docs with fellow Christian academics from across Oxford.  As a graduate or post-doc who follows Christ, the course seeks to equip you with useful intellectual and conceptual tools—a ‘Christian mind’—in the expectation that this experience will assist each person to develop and continue to refine informed and nuanced Christian intellectual responses throughout their lives, whether or not they spend their career in an academic setting.  In short, this new initiative hopes to enable you in the community of other scholars to worship the Lord with all of your mind. 

In its initial form, the Developing a Christian Mind programme is aimed at serving the academic community of Oxford University.  For both practical reasons and to make the programme most useful to those involved, participation is limited to the following:

    * Postgraduate students at Oxford University registered for the following degrees: M Sc, M St, M Th, MBA, MPhil, BCL/MJur, PRS and DPhil.
    * Postdoctoral researchers
    * Academic Staff (e.g. professors, lecturers, etc.)
    * Other researchers and teachers in colleges or University departments, including academic visitors

If you are unsure of your eligibility, contact us using the feedback form on the contact page. Members of Oxford Brookes in these categories are also welcome.  Members of other Universities are asked to contact us to check eligibility.

The Developing a Christian Mind programme is open to anyone from the University who fits the above criteria.  Christians from all denominations and traditions are welcome, as well as those who are simply curious to learn more about the Christian faith.