Intensive course at Acadia Divinity College: 30 May - 3 June 2011

"The Jesus of the Bible and Popular Culture"

This lively course takes a critical look at some of the strange and novel scholarship (both learned and bogus) concerned with the historical Jesus. The course will expose the misinterpretations, lack of proper evidence and documentation, and dubious assumptions that lie behind some of the most publicized and notorious challenges to traditional Christian faith and the historical Jesus and his world that have arisen in recent years in books and television documentaries. Contrary to these extreme and unduly skeptical portraits a fair assessment of the New Testament Gospels and the historical Jesus, including his resurrection, will be offered.

Fall semester course at Acadia Divinity College: September - December 2011

"Interpreting the New Testament"

This course will introduce the student to the different sections and genres of literature in the New Testament, to interpretative methods appropriate to them, and to theological principles. The course will also survey the world of Jesus and the early Christian Church. This course assumes knowledge of the contents of the New Testament, and is the foundation for advanced studies.