Survey of Romans through Revelation
About This Class
Using the English New Testament, this course surveys the New Testament epistles and the apocalypse. Issues of introduction and content receive emphasis as well as a continual focus on the theology of evangelism and on the contemporary relevance of the variety of issues these documents raise for contemporary life.
About the Professor
Craig Blomberg
Craig Blomberg is one of the most highly respected evangelical scholars in the United States. He has authored fifteen books as well as co-authored/edited ten more, with over 150 journal articles to his credit. A Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado, Craig also serves on the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version.
Lessons
Paul was trained as a Pharisee and persecuted Christians because he considered them enemies of God. After his conversion experience, he travelled in Asia Minor and Europe preaching the gospel and planting churches. Many of the letters in the New Testament are ones that he wrote to these churches.
0% CompletePaul was trained as a Pharisee and persecuted Christians because he considered them enemies of God. After his conversion experience, he travelled in Asia Minor and Europe preaching the gospel and planting churches. Many of the letters in the New Testament are ones that he wrote to these churches.
0% CompletePaul was trained as a Pharisee and persecuted Christians because he considered them enemies of God. After his conversion experience, he travelled in Asia Minor and Europe preaching the gospel and planting churches. Many of the letters in the New Testament are ones that he wrote to these churches.
0% CompleteCorrelation of the accounts in Galatians and Acts on Paul's trip to Jerusalem.
0% CompleteGalatians as a model of apologetics supporting Christianity.
0% CompleteComparing faith and works in Judaism and Christianity.
0% CompletePaul faced persecution when he preached in Thessalonica. The return of Christ is a central theme in the letters to the Thessalonians.
0% CompleteOne aspect of the subject of biblical eschatology is the timing and nature of the tribulation.
0% CompletePaul addresses the extremes of asceticism and hedonism, as well as concerns regarding marriage, spiritiual gifts and the resurrection.
0% CompleteDivisions in the Corinthian church were caused by both theology and lifestyle.
0% CompleteWhether or not believers should eat food that had been offered to idols was an issue in the Corinthian church. The importance and role of spiritual gifts was a major topic of discussion.
0% CompletePaul updates the people in the church in Corinth about his travels. He also follows up on relationships and defends his apostolic ministry.
0% CompletePaul responds to specific situations in the Corinthian church including emphasizing a correct perspective on giving and encouragement to see God's redemptive purpose in our suffering.
0% CompleteKnowing the key places as backgrounds for Romans, the timeline and the outline of the book are helpful to understanding the context and message.
0% CompletePaul wrote Romans as a systematic exposition of the gospel.
0% CompleteIn Colossians, Paul emphasizes the deity of Christ. Philemon was written to a gentlema Paul knows to encourage him to welcome back Onesimus, his runaway slave, who became a disciple of Christ and was returning.
0% CompletePaul addresses how to live in different roles: husbands and wives, masters and slaves, elders and others in the church.
0% CompletePaul describes the blessings of salvation and encourages believers to live in unity that transcends cultural and racial barriers.
0% CompletePaul describes to the followers of Jesus in Ephesus, who they are in Christ, and the ethical implications for how they should live their daily lives.
0% CompletePaul contrasts the condescention and the exaltation of Christ, and addresses specific situations in the Philippian church.
0% CompletePaul writes to encourage and instruct Timothy and Titus, both of whom are young pastors. It is important for Titus to identify and train elders and deal effectively with factious people.
0% CompletePaul instructs Timothy about how to pastor a church and turn it away from heresy.
0% CompleteBoth 1 Timothy and 1 Corinthians contain key passages addressing the roles of men and women in the local church. Some of them address conduct when gathering for corporate worship.
0% Complete1 Timothy 2:11-15 gives some direction for gender roles in a worship service.
0% CompleteKey themes and catchwords in James include trials, wisdom, temptation, speech, doubt and perseverance.
0% CompleteJames discusses the roles of faith and works in a believers life and the importance of prayer.
0% CompleteA prominent theme in Hebrews chapters 1-5 is the superiority of Christ to the angels and to Moses.
0% CompleteHebrews 6:4-8 is a key warning passage. Christ's priesthood is superior to both the Levitical priesthood and also to Melchizedek. Chapter 11 remembers the heroes of the faith.
0% CompleteA major theme of 1 Peter is perseverance despite persecution.
0% CompleteThe outline of 1 Peter has similarities to other letters of the first century that emphasize a high view of Christology.
0% CompleteJude and 2 Peter both emphasize refuting false teachers.
0% CompleteIn his epistles, John emphasizes themes that refute gnostic doctrines. He outlines the tests of life as keeping God’s commandments, loving one another and believing in Jesus as the God-man.
0% CompleteAs you study and preach from the epistles of John, note the passages that Dr. Blomberg describes as, “gems from John.”
0% CompleteRevelation was written by the apostle John in the late first century using apocalyptic, prophetic and epistolary genres. A possible structure by time line would be the past (chapter 1), the present (chapters 2-5) and the future (chapters 6-22).
0% CompleteIn addition to the framework of eschatology, Revelation chapters 1-6 develops themes of Christology including a description of Jesus as the lion who is a lamb, as well as the spiritual condition of some of the churches in the first century.
0% CompleteIn both of the possible scenarios for the tribulation, believers are exempt from God’s wrath but they are not exempt from Satan’s attacks.
0% CompleteRevelation chapters 12-22 cover themes of salvation and judgment of nations, Armageddon, the millennium and the new heavens and new earth.
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