Explore the New Testament's context, documents, and literary genres in this foundational course, designed for deeper understanding and engagement with early church writings.
This course introduces you to the New Testament, focusing on its historical context, the reliability of its documents, and the literary styles within. It's all about building a solid foundation for understanding before diving deeper into the texts themselves.
The People and Writings of the Early Church
This class is an “introduction” to the New Testament. It is not designed to make us experts in the twenty seven books it contains, but rather to provide a foundation from which we can engage in further, more detailed study of them.
The class will be divided into three major sections. In the first, we will look at the context of the New Testament. It is set within the Roman culture of the first century and its documents were produced by citizens of that culture. For us to truly understand what God is communicating to us through the pages of the New Testament, we must first understand what he was communicating to them.
The second section will examine the New Testament documents themselves; not from the perspective of what they say, but rather from the perspective of what they are, how they were produced and transmitted to us, and how we can be sure that they are reliable.
Finally, we will look briefly at the content of the books of the New Testament recognizing that a thorough study of them is well beyond the intent of this class. We will look at them as groups of writings that contain many literary similarities. We will pay close attention to their genres as a key to understanding the intent of the author, and thus, the meaning for us.
This course will prepare you to set out on an in depth study of the New Testament
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Hi. My name is Scott Metz and I am the founder and instructor for Seminary At Church, a newly designed Adult Discipleship and Education Program. I earned a Masters of Theological Studies Degree from the Anderson University School of Theology in 2009 where I was recognized for Professional Distinction In Pastoral Theology. One of the requirements for this course was...
subject matter is wonderful but the instructor's problem with his throat is very distracting-
Good course to start your journey to a better understating of the new testament. nothing to fancy, but it gives you just enough information for you to go on and do your own studies.
I enjoyed everything about this course. It’s an eye opening to read the Bible again in new understanding.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was well presented by a knowledgeable presenter. It has provided a good insight into the lives of people during the New Testament. thank you.
Great course! Learning the foundations/context of the N.T. has helped me better understand what some of the writers were trying to explain.
I thought this was an outstanding scholarly introduction to the New Testament. The more I learn about the Bible and Biblical times the more excited I get to learn more. This course fit the bill, in terms of encouraging me to further my learning. Scott is a great presenter with a dry sense of humor. I am going to do another one of his courses.
I thoroughly enjoyed the information - and the presenter. In fact I'm still watching the course even though it's continunally pausing and stopping - I hope Udemy can do something abouth this.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
I like the style and the material, I just wish there were more visual aids and that the course was longer.
All in all, I'm getting a lot out of this course and can't wait to continue my Christian scholarship.
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Verna S.
Doing a great job. Just relax. I am just enjoying this course so much.