Mobile Ed: Discovering Christ throughout Scripture (2 courses)

by Peter J. Leithart; Logos Mobile Education; Mark L. Strauss

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2016–2017

Overview

Learn more about Jesus and how to read the Bible with precision with the Discovering Christ throughout Scripture bundle. In The Jesus of the Gospels by Dr. Mark Strauss you will see how the Gospels present the historical Jesus. You will investigate the historical reliability of these accounts and explore the ministry of Jesus on earth that culminated in his death and resurrection.

In Typological Hermeneutics: Finding Christ in the Whole Bible by Dr. Peter Leithart you will learn how to read Scripture in a way that points toward Jesus. As Dr. Leithart summarizes this concept in the course, “The point of reading the Scriptures is not to gain information. It’s not to gain insights that we can then use to dazzle other people. We read the Scriptures so that we can be conformed to Jesus Christ, and in being conformed to Jesus Christ, we are also conformed to his mission.”

Product Details

• Title: Discovering Christ throughout Scripture
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 2
• Video Hours: 12

NT254 The Jesus of the Gospels

• Instructor: Mark L. Strauss
• Publication Date: 2016
• Video Hours: 8

The Jesus of the Gospels (NT254) focuses on the historical Jesus and the reliability of the four gospels. The course surveys different “quests” for the historical Jesus by critical scholarship and examines, apologetically, what we can demonstrate about the person of Jesus. It assesses the teaching of Jesus, his miracles, the intention of his ministry, and the historical evidence for his death and resurrection.

Contents:

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Gospels and the Historical Jesus

• What Can We Know about Jesus?
• Sources for Knowing about Jesus
• What Are the Gospels? Part 1
• What Are the Gospels? Part 2
• How the Gospels Came to Be

Unit 2: Quests for the Historical Jesus

• Searching for the Real Jesus
• The First Quest for the Historical Jesus
• Rudolf Bultmann and the Period of No Quest: Part 1
• Rudolf Bultmann and the Period of No Quest: Part 2
• The Second Quest and the Jesus Seminar
• The Contemporary Scene
• Examining Method and Context
• The Criteria of Authenticity
• Contemporary Portraits: Part 1
• Contemporary Portraits: Part 2

Unit 3: The Reliability of the Gospels

• Presuppositions, Biases, and the Burden of Proof
• Luke: A Reliable Historian
• A Generally Reliable Gospel Tradition
• Contradictions in the Gospels
• The Historical Reliability of John

Unit 4: The Chronology of Jesus’ Ministry

• A Portrait of Jesus from Afar
• The Basic Structure of Jesus’ Ministry
• A Chronology of Jesus’ Life

Unit 5: Jesus’ Birth and Childhood

• Introduction to the Birth Narratives
• The Genealogies
• The Virginal Conception
• Bethlehem and the Census
• Popular Myths about Christmas
• Jesus’ Family Life

Unit 6: The Beginning of Jesus’ Ministry

• John the Baptist: The Herald of Messianic Salvation
• The Baptism of Jesus
• The Temptation of Jesus

Unit 7: The Teaching of Jesus

• Jesus the Teacher
• The Kingdom of God
• Jesus and the Law: Part 1
• Jesus and the Law: Part 2
• Grace and Works
• Jesus and Social Justice
• The Parables of the Kingdom: Part 1
• The Parables of the Kingdom: Part 2

Unit 8: The Miracles of Jesus

• The Question of Miracles
• Did Jesus Perform Miracles? Part 1
• Did Jesus Perform Miracles? Part 2
• The Significance of Jesus’ Miracles

Unit 9: The Messianic Words and Deeds of Jesus

• The Remarkable Authority of Jesus
• The Scope of Jesus’ Ministry: Calling the Twelve
• The Scope of Jesus’ Ministry: A Universal Kingdom
• The Significance of the Triumphal Entry
• The Significance of the Temple Cleansing
• Jesus’ Titles: Christ
• Jesus’ Titles: Son of Man
• Jesus’ Titles: Son of God
• Jesus’ Titles: Lord

Unit 10: The Death of Jesus

• The Role of the Romans
• The Role of the Jews
• Jesus’ Expectations
• The Significance of Jesus’ Death

Unit 11: The Resurrection of Jesus

• The Importance of the Resurrection
• Rationalistic Explanations for the Resurrection
• Historical Evidence for the Resurrection
• The Significance of the Resurrection

Unit 12: Concluding Thoughts

• Faith, Apologetics, and the Gospels
• The Already/Not Yet Kingdom of God
• A Holistic Vision of Salvation

Dr. Mark L. Strauss is the professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary in San Diego. He has written several books, including The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts, Distorting Scripture? The Challenge of Bible Translation and Gender Accuracy, and Luke in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary series.

BI111 Typological Hermeneutics: Finding Christ in the Whole Bible

• Instructor: Peter J. Leithart
• Publication Date: 2016
• Video Hours: 4

Explore the art and science of Bible interpretation, teaching you how to become a good reader of the Bible so you will hear everything God says in His inspired Word. Dr. Leithart teaches a hermeneutical approach grounded in a robust theology of language, modelled after the way Jesus and the apostles interpreted the Old Testament, and drawing on elements from patristic and medieval methods. Other crucial topics are discussed, such as the nature of texts, semantics, intertextuality, biblical allusions, and literary structure, all reinforced with a plethora of examples from both biblical and extrabiblical literature. All of this contributes to the main point of reading Scripture: to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

Contents:

Unit 1:History of Interpretation

• Early Church to Middle Ages
• Reformation to Present

Unit 2: The God Who Speaks Human

• God Speaks
• God Speaks Human
• God Speaks Truth
• Three Models of Theological Language
• Poetry of Creation in Genesis 1: Light
• Poetry of Creation in Genesis 1: Images of God

Unit 3: Everything Concerning Himself

• The Bible Is about Jesus: Part 1
• The Bible Is about Jesus: Part 2
• Typology is a Film, Not a Picture

Unit 4: Open Ears: Becoming a Good Reader

• Qualifications of an Interpreter
• Reading According to the Spirit
• Rules of Reading

Unit 5: Verbal Magic

• Exegesis and Eisegesis
• Semantics: Part 1
• Semantics: Part 2
• Intertextuality: Part 1
• Intertextuality: Part 2
• Scenic Imagery: Part 1
• Scenic Imagery: Part 2

Unit 6: Textual Rhythms

• Reasons for Paying Attention to the Structure of Biblical Texts
• Stage 1: Determine the Subunits of the Text (Part 1)
• Stage 1: Determine the Subunits of the Text (Part 2)
• Stage 1: Determine the Subunits of the Text (Part 3)
• Stage 2: Discern How the Units Are Arranged (Part 1)
• Stage 2: Discern How the Units Are Arranged (Part 2)
• Stage 2: Discern How the Units Are Arranged (Part 3), and Stage 3: What Does It Mean?

Unit 7: Reading to Teach

• Quadriga: The Medieval Fourfold Method
• Strengths of the Quadriga
• Examples of the Quadriga: David and Goliath
• Examples of the Quadriga: Ruth

Peter J. Leithart received an AB in English and History from Hillsdale College in 1981, and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia in 1986 and 1987, respectively. In 1998 he received his PhD at the University of Cambridge in England. He has served as editor and writer for American Vision in Atlanta, Georgia (1987-1989), and as a pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church), Birmingham, Alabama from 1989-1995. From 1998-2013, he taught Theology and Literature at New Saint Andrews College and between 2003 and 2013 served as pastor of Trinity Reformed Church. He is currently President of the Theopolis Institute, a pastoral training institute in Birmingham, Alabama.