A study of the pivotal methods and interpretative principles involved in discerning the meaning of the biblical text.

This course, which will interact extensively with the epistle to the Ephesians, provides the basis for a theological-missiological understanding of missional nature of the people of God, sent into the world as witnesses to Christ and his Kingdom.

Long before 1500 global Christianity had stretched from Iceland and Ireland to Mongolia and south to Ethiopia. Across this vast area people of faith confronted dramatically differing and constantly changing circumstances. They made decisions about culture, political power, the spiritual life, the canon of Scripture, and doctrine, decisions which shaped the flow of human history, and they experienced both success and loss on the grand scale. This course follows their story. The narrative of the course and the reading from materials they wrote carries students into the dynamism of early Christian life.

This course examines the Letters of John.

Students will be introduced to the history of the Christian Church, from the period of the Reformations to the early Twentieth Century. This will entail exposure to the major events and thinkers which account for the present shape of the Christian Church.