THEA 447 : Biblical Theology

Examines the major biblical and theological themes of both testaments. Topics include discovering the flow of ideas that bind the different books of the Bible into a unified whole, the development of God's plan of redemption as it unfolds to us while we read the Old and New Testaments, the biblical events and their meaning, progressive development of our theological understanding of the redemption of humanity, theological and philosophical presuppositions that one brings to the text and how these affect one's interpretation of the Bible.