PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

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This course serves as a graduate -level introduction to the Catholic Bible. Since God is the primary author of Scripture, the soul of sacred theology is the study of the sacred page. This course has a twofold goal: to introduce students to the principles of authentic Catholic biblical exegesis, and to explore how God, the Creator, has acted through his covenants to draw his people, disordered by the Fall, back to himself. The course includes the principles of Catholic exegesis as set forth definitively by Dei Verbum and the Catechism of the Catholic Church and also undertakes a careful reading of large segments of the Old and New Testaments, with an empha sis on the unity of Scripture. This course is only offered in an online modality.