Education at the Theological Faculty of the John Wesley Theological College focuses on two targets: a) training students who have a calling to become pastors, spiritual and catechetical ministers within the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship, the church that maintains our institute b) training theologians and pastors who wish to serve God's word in other churches. (Our students also have the opportunity to study denominational subjects at accredited institutions of higher education maintained by other churches.).
The teaching curricula enable the students to get acquainted with the most important issues of Christian faith and tradition, the methodology of the theory and education of religion, the related conceptual and scientific system, and the modes of disseminating this knowledge. They also learn the traditions of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship, respectively, of their denomination. They also have the opportunity to learn the unique knowledge and skills of their outstanding educational service and general knowledge of cultural and humane studies.
It follows from the testimonial character of Christianity and the Wesleyan tradition that theological studies cannot be limited to theoretical knowledge and impart the symbolical and theoretical system of values of the Gospel either. A likewise important component of religious and theological identity and competence is the integration of knowledge at the highest personal level. The catechetical minister and the pedagogue do not merely "teach," but they also influence the formation of the students' morality and world-view by their personality, communication, exemplary deeds, and authentic experience of faith.
Our teaching and research are primarily devoted to the pursuit of the values that the Script teaches the man who carries the glory and semblance of the Lord. This implies that we stress the value of social work and charity, the respectful and humanistic dialogue with other denominations, faiths, and convictions.
As a consequence of our theological vision, we are primarily devoted to the Jewish-Christian brotherhood's idea and the conviction that the Jewish-Christian relationship cannot be hostile. We also pay special attention to the various minorities, especially the Romani people and the socially most marginalized brothers. We wish to deepen the Samaritan attitude in our students as God's responsibility towards the social outcast.
The risk of civilizational and natural catastrophes keeps growing in our age. This fact has the consequence that social problems are hitting individual people are worsening both in space and in time and quality.
There are always people in society ~~> depending on site and time, which, due to circumstances or their properties, cannot meet society's expectations. They live and suffer in a lack of safety and captivity of risk. Therefore they need help.
Environmental safety work must be carried out following, applying, and critically evaluating exact, scientifically established professional rules. Laws, rules, systems of risk, and safety must be known. Risk originating from environmental effects and objective professional processes and techniques, scientifically elaborated for the judgment of desirable and undesirable consequences of safety measures, must equally be known.
With education on the Course of Environmental Studies, our College wants to teach experts who have up-to-date knowledge and integrate the results of natural and human sciences in their practical work. Based on this grounding, they will contribute to the efficient solution of practical, planning, analyzing, problem exposing, decision-supporting, controlling, researching, and teaching tasks in connection with environmental protection, sustainable development, sustainable safety, environmental conflict handling, that is, environmental safety, furthermore to the modern and well-established handling of environmental problems appearing on the most different areas.
The aim of environment safety education is training that prepares for creative planning and operative work resting on a uniform, up-to-date environmental attitude, and high-level social knowledge and practice, clarifying and qualifying for the particular tasks of the professional fields. The graduated experts participate both directly and indirectly in the exploration and handling of social problems and their co-ordination with environment safety tasks, i.e., they contribute to the improvement of the social and environmental condition, safety feeling, safety awareness of the population, furthermore to the more efficient preservation, protection, development of natural values, to human and environmental rehabilitation moreover, to the realization of rational environment management resting on the world of ideas of sustainable safety, considering social elements as well.
