Urban Ministry & Theology Project Newcastle East Deanery

Study Resources

Peter Robinson trained at Cranmer Hall and is Director of UMTP. He is priest in charge of both St Martin’s, Byker and St Michael’s, Byker. He is one of the Degree Programme Tutors on the MA in Applied Theology at Newcastle University, teaching a module on the theology and practice of social and economic regeneration.

Theological Training & Education Aim:

To offer learning processes of theological reflection and training in the context of social and economic regeneration so by enabling the construction and doing of a local theology.

Theological Training & Education Objectives:

1. To develop resources for theological education in the urban setting in East Newcastle and beyond.

2. To draw lay persons into the theological training of others, enabling them to become co-trainers.

3. To link the work of UMTP to the emerging structures of theological education in the Anglican setting and beyond.

4. To create a learning and reflective community on social and economic regeneration issues.

5. To enable rigorous theological reflection on UMTP’s local theology.

6. Sharing the theological reflection outcomes with the wider church.

7. To learn from those who visit to share in our experience.

Related links:

Cranmer Hall, Durham

Durham University Department of Theology and Religious Studies

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