Emphasis is on the modern trends and problems specific to missions in various culture, tasks, and certain relationships. This course examines the history of hermeneutical lessons of church history and their resultant biblically- oriented principles and methods, supported by positive illustration and examples of misreading and misinterpretation. Students receive practice in proper habits of Bible reading and study, interpretation, and the use of proper reference, linguistic, and contextual tools. It is studied in the historical geographical context, including the inter-testamental period, Judaism in the time of Christ, fullness of time concepts, the life and ministries of Jesus and Apostles, the Church, and the resultant doctrines. This course covers the exposition of the doctrine of the local church.
Students learn practical biblical principles vital to the mission field or church.
The course serves not only to teach, but also to bring special emphasis to order and the interrelationship of believers within the church. The first of a two semester examination of the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith including bibliography, theology of the Godhead, Christology, biblical anthropology, hamartiology, and angelology. This course introduces the biblical foundations and process of teaching. This course will attempt to provide its students with the social and historical setting of the gospel story, and to see through the four portraits of the Savior, the church's testimony concerning Jesus Christ. The second of a two semester examination of the cardinal doctrines of the Christian faith.