NEW TESTAMENT

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The New Testament recounts the culmination of sacred history and of the “divine pedagogy” (CCC § 53) in the mysteria vitae Iesu and the founding of his Church. This course presents the New Testament writings as a diverse but unified theological witness to these “divinely revealed realities” ( DV § 11). It elucidates their literary character without compromising their historical reliability, and it reads them within the rich cultural matrix of Greco-Roman Judaism of the first century A.D. without losing sight of the fact that they belong to the Church for all ages. The course fosters a seamless integration of exegesis, theology, and contemplation.