This is a Level 5 course and offers you the opportunity to explore your faith and stretch your knowledge in this exciting topic. TCI promotes and provides high-quality Catholic education and professional assistance through student-centred teaching and learning. I hope that you enjoy your studies and I wish you every success as you begin this course. 

This course will explore the major historical developments that have influenced the contemporary sacramental practice of the Catholic Church. It will examine some key cultural influences that have shaped and defined the Sacraments highlighting how the faith of the Church is expressed, nourished and strengthened in the celebration of sacramental rituals.


Christian theology is a human word which attempts to express the mystery of the dynamic interface between what is given by God and what is received by the human subject. It is a word anchored in culture and society and thus always in need of interpretation. This course unit will consider Christian faith in both its dimensions, as subjective experience and as a body of beliefs. It will explore the relationship between faith, revelation and theology.


This course unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the biblical basis and the historical and modern formulations of the person and work of Jesus Christ, and to explore these in the light of contemporary Christian life and thought.

Baptism is the first Christian sacrament. As sacrament it mediates Christian faith and Christian identity, in Christ and in the Church. This course unit presents an introduction to sacramental theology, taking baptism as a paradigm. It will explore baptism as gift of the Holy Spirit and sacrament of salvation, and ask about the consequences of the mutual recognition of baptism by the different Christina churches and communities. Consideration will also be given to the development of Confirmation as a separate sacrament in the west.