Description of the New Testament Review

The New Testament is the story of Jesus Christ and God's plan for the salvation of people into whose world sin has entered. The New Testament Review training course consists of ten lectures that offer us a brief overview of the twenty seven books of the New Testament. The course introduces the main content of each New Testament Book, explains the purpose of its writing, pays attention to theological issues and principles of the practical application of biblical truths in everyday life and ministry. The New Testament Review course is the first step for those who wish to devote themselves to a deep study of scripture.

Aims and objectives of the course:

Upon completion of the study of this course, the student should be able to:

Summarize the story of divine love set forth in the New Testament and explain what the role of Christ is in this part of the Bible.

Understand the uniqueness of each gospel and each author, and also show how the general testimonies of all four provide us with a deep picture depicting Christ the Man and His works.

Answer the question: “Who is Jesus Christ?”

Characterize His miracles and parables and be able to apply special principles to correctly understand the parable.

Explain the main themes of the Book of Acts.

Summarize the biography of the Apostle Paul, including his missionary journeys, and also understand the reason for his spiritual burning.

Understand the main topics of the gospel and apply important spiritual truths contained in each of the Epistles.

Draw conclusions from the book of Revelation and apply the spiritual truths set forth in it.

Lecture 1. Introduction

Lecture 2. The Gospel

Lecture 3. Who was Jesus Christ?

Lecture 4. Miracles and parables of Jesus Christ

Lecture 5. Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Part 1

Lecture 6. Book of the Acts of the Apostles. Part 2

Lecture 7. The Epistles of Paul. Part 1

Lecture 8. The Epistles of Paul. Part 2

Lecture 9. General Messages

Lecture 10. The Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation

Dear friends, we want to bring to your attention the New Testament Review curriculum.

When:

01.21-19.03.18 - 8 weeks, 7-10 hours a week.

Why do we need to study the New Testament today, can we not live without it? What is special about this course and what new can you learn from it?

Course description

New Testament Review   He studies 27 books of the New Testament, traces historical events, examines religious customs and culture, and identifies people in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and his apostles for a better understanding of the Bible. In this course, attention is paid to the purposeful communication of God with His people for the foundation of the church and its expansion. The sections of the New Testament, the genre and structure of his books will be examined with the aim of increasing the accuracy of the interpretation process and the relevance of modern application.

Course objectives

The student will demonstrate an understanding of how to apply biblical knowledge in life and ministry by using the following:

• Explaining how the themes of each book of the New Testament fit into God's overall plan
• Defining how the historical, religious, and cultural background of people and events affects the interpretation of the New Testament
• Exerting the precise interpretation of the New Testament passage in its wider context
• Extracting principles from the New Testament that fit the student’s cultural context

Section 1: Background The Inter-Testament Period and Historical Events

Section 2: Jesus and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Section 3: Acts and the Beginning of the First Church Acts

Section 4: The Epistles of James - Jude

Section 5: Paul's Letters to the Hebrews

Section 6: Revelation and Future Events Revelation

Course Curator:

Vladimir Nikolaev (MA), director of the Institute of Church Ministry (Kiev), doctoral student at the Slavic - Baltic Seminary, specializes in the Theology of the Apostle Paul. e-mail [email protected]

Course author:

The course was developed by: Craig L. Blomberg, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of New Testament Studies at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He wrote dozens of books on various issues of the New Testament. His book was translated into Russian: “Interpretation of parables”.

Form of training

In our courses you will not listen to boring lectures.

The course material is divided into small chapters that are in the electronic textbook. For each lesson you will need to read one or two chapters and complete all the tasks associated with this text.

Usually during the training process, once a week we hold a video meeting for those who want to chat with the curator and classmates.

Tasks

For each week there is a reading, a written assignment and also an assignment on the forum where you will communicate with other students who are located around the world. There are also tests and exams to verify the student.

Courses require 7 to 10 hours of work every week. You can do this work at any time of the day at your convenience. You will need to go online to attend your course at least three times a week.

Platform

The certificate confirms that you have indeed completed this course.

Much has been written on the introduction to the New Testament, but almost all are in English, German, and French. Therefore, the need for such literature in Russian was felt for a long time.

The book of the English scientist, teacher of language and literature of the New Testament of the London Bible College Donald Guthrie is a serious academic work.

And on the other hand, the author objectively and impartially covers almost all the research that exists today in the field of the New Testament. He took into account the existence of various theories and comments about the books and the content of the New Testament, and therefore touched them in his work. The author does not try to resolve controversial issues, but simply parses contemporary critical opinions, presenting them to the readers.

From book

One of the most difficult problems in gospel criticism is determining the place of tradition. Some critical schools of science reject external evidence on the grounds that the eyewitnesses' approach was not scientific, and therefore they could not preserve reliable traditions. The other extreme is the current, which considers the ancient evidence almost as sacred and therefore undeniably true. But none of these approaches is satisfactory. The first is guilty of excessive modernization, as he believes that only evidence that is consistent with modern scientific formulas can be correct. But despite the fact that the first Christians were people of their time, to a large extent of an uncritical and unscientific age, this does not mean that they gullibly addressed issues that affected their faith, since they knew that at any time they could be called to defend your position. As for the other point of view, which considers tradition as important as internal evidence, is unjustified, as some traditions are clearly not accurate. No one will seriously, for example, claim that Andrei participated in the compilation of the Gospel of John, as follows from the Muratoriev canon. Each tradition must undoubtedly be carefully weighed.

Where there is a firmly certified ancient tradition, it will be right to believe that this tradition is possible and true, until the contrary is proved. In other words, where tradition and internal evidence contradict each other, the interpretation of the latter should not be doubted if there is no firm belief that the traditional view is wrong. Where internal evidence is clearly and undeniably contrary to tradition, the latter must of course be rejected. An example of this is the connection between the apostle Peter and the Gospel of Mark.

Although it is possible to argue about the relationship between them, as some advocates of the “history of forms” method do, there is much to say in support of this connection, as there is undeniable evidence for this. In other words, all existing early traditions allow us to state the probability that this connection is based on fact, and only the possibility of the opposite should be completely rejected. Assumptions that something could happen are very far from what actually happened. Where the tradition clearly and clearly affirms the latter, there criticism must prove that this could not have happened before bringing evidence to support the contrary. In other words, opportunity should not crowd out probabilities.