Instructor: Colin Kerr
Office: 867-6464 ext. 231
Email: colin.kerr@onlinecfc.com

I. Course Description: This two-semester course seeks to deepen each student's understanding and appreciation of the New Testament, strengthen their personal faith and provide a Biblical and theological framework for their life and ministry. Designed as a comprehensive survey course, it treats the cultural and historical background, occasion for writing, authorship and dating, organization, and major themes of each book of the New Testament. The formation of the New Testament canon and the “synoptic problem” will also be examined.

II. Course Objectives:

• To facilitate growth in Christ through reading and discussing each book of the New Testament.
• To gain confidence in the authority of Scripture through understanding the providential formation of the New Testament canon.
• To explain the historical background of the books (e.g., author, date, the occasion and purpose for writing, place of writing).
• To become familiar with the content and major theological themes discussed within each New Testament book.
• To make application of the message of the New Testament authors to the present day.

III. Course “Requirements”:

• To enjoy reading the New Testament itself, and the text, Encountering the New Testament, by Walter A. Elwell and Robert Yarbrough
• To attend and mentally engage yourself in class regularly.
• To complete any homework assignments, quizzes and tests.
• To share what you are learning with others in your life.