Teacher: Dr. Robert "Bob" Bryant

Because of technological advances, data related to the gospels are ubiquitous and plentiful. As such, this course is not limited to a survey of content. In studying the synoptic gospels, it focuses on enabling students to properly exegete passages, identify fallacies, communicate scholarly, and apply the life and teachings of Christ.

THEME SCRIPTURE

" For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?” (Luke 14:28, NAS)?

Objectives: By completion of this course, each student should be able to… 

• understand and polemically address the synoptic problem
• analyze various hermeneutic fallacies that lend to variant readings of texts
• identify similarities and differences between the gospel records
• scholarly communicate orally and in written form about complex issues derived from the text
• associate sound religious and historiographic research to texts
• apply Christ’s life and teachings to current experience