Gospels
Attention is given to each writer’s literary art, theological teaching, pastoral purpose, and message for today’s church and world. Course Objectives: • To gain familiarity with the contents of the four Gospels. • To gain acquaintance with the main theories of authorship, origin, and compositional relationship of the Gospels. • To understand and evaluate, discerningly, the main lines of historical criticism of the Gospels in the modern period. • To understand the main elements of the message of Jesus, revealed in word and deed, as reflected in the unified witness of the Gospels. • To recognize the distinctive emphases of each of the four Gospels, and the implications of their diversity for interpretation and proclamation. • To grow in personal responsiveness to the Gospel’s message of faith, repentance, humility, obedience, joy, etc.
Lecturer/Teacher
Dr. Michael J. Kruger (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is President and the Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC. He is one of the leading scholars today in the study of the origins of the New Testament, particularly the development of the New Testament canon and the transmission of the New Testament text. He is the author of numerous books including The Gospel of the Savior (Brill, 2005), The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Crossway, 2010, with Andreas Köstenberger), Canon Revisited (Crossway, 2012), and The Question of Canon (IVP, 2013). He is also the co-editor of The Early Text of the New Testament (Oxford, 2012), and Gospel Fragments (Oxford, 2009). Dr. Kruger is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America and also serves (part-time) as Pastor of Teaching at Uptown PCA in downtown Charlotte.
Course Description
30 part audio series
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