Mobile Ed: NT309 Critical Issues in the Synoptic Gospels (3 hour course)

by Craig S. Keener; Logos Mobile Education

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2016

Overview

Explore the historical reliability of the Gospels and the controversy of miracles. Probe the Gospels as biographies recounting historical information passed down through written and oral traditions and eyewitness accounts.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Gospels and History

• Introducing the Gospels
• The Genre of the Gospels
• The Basics of Ancient Biography
• Ancient Biographers
• Source Criticism
• Form Criticism
• Redaction Criticism
• Oral Tradition
• Memorization
• Advanced Education in Antiquity
• Linguistic Evidence for Authenticity
• Eyewitnesses
• The Gospels’ Appeal to Common Knowledge
• Objections to Gospel Reliability

Unit 2: Miracles in the Gospels

• Miracle Reports
• Jesus’ Miracles
• Philosophical Foundations of Naturalism
• The Principle of Uniformity
• Human Experience of the Miraculous
• Eyewitness Reports of Miracles
• More Modern Eyewitness Accounts
• Raised from the Dead
• Accounts from the Congo
• Nature Miracles

Conclusion

• Course Summary

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About the Instructor

Dr. Craig S. Keener is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and is the author of 17 books, 4 of which have won book awards in Christianity Today. One, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, has sold more than half a million copies. He has authored scholarly commentaries on Matthew, John, Acts, Romans, 1–2 Corinthians, and Revelation.