A Study Guide to Mark\u27s Gospel: Discovering Mark\u27s Message for His Day and Ours

A section-by-section guide to the study of Mark\u27s Gospel, intended primarily for lay people who want a very brief introduction to the gospel that will highlight its essential message and can be used for individual or group reflection. It coincides with year B lectionary Gospel readings. Sinclair\u27s work concentrates on discovering what Mark was saying to the Christian readers of his own time. He also provides a new translation of the Gospel which will help readers experience the sometimes all too familiar material in a fresh way.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1002/thumbnail.jp

A Study Guide to St. Paul\u27s Letter to the Romans : A Section-by-section Commentary on Romans with Questions for Reflection

I have been dismayed for some time that there is a shortage of good biblical study guides. Most genuinely informed and creative books on the Bible are written primarily for scholars and are too technical (and often too long) to be accessible to general readers. This book is the result. Here I present my own under-standing of the structure and purpose of Romans and, at the same time, provide a survey of this epistle that any educated reader can follow and that will be useful for group Bible study as well. I hope that you find it helpfulhttps://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1004/thumbnail.jp

The Book of Revelation [Lecture Notes]

An examination of the context, message, and contemporary relevance of this extraordinary final book of the Christian New Testament. Student Learning Outcomes: Student will demonstrate a knowledge of the literal contents of the Book of Revelation the cultural and/or historical situations to which they respond, and 3) the enduring theological perspectives that appear in these responses

Biblical Models for Salvation and Some Implications for Today

A Series of Conferences for the Monks of New Camaldoli, Big Su

The Letters of St. Paul [Lecture Notes]

Course Description A study of the major themes of Paul\u27s thought through the letters he wrote as responses to problems in the early Christian church. Student Learning Outcomes For this course: A knowledge of 1) the literal contents of Paul’s Letters, 2) the cultural and historical situations to which the letters respond, and 3) the enduring theological perspectives that appear in these responses

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and the Acts of the Apostles [Lecture Notes]

A detailed study of the New Testament gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and of the historical Jesus. We will reconstruct the social setting of each gospel and examine the gospels\u27 major theological themes. Then we will examine the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Some attention will also be paid to the contents and message of the Acts of the Apostles. Student Learning Outcomes: Students will demonstrate: A knowledge of the social settings of the New Testament gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke and the Acts of the Apostles a knowledge of the basic theological ideas of Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts an awareness of the historical problem of how to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus a knowledge of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and how they were a response to the beliefs and social structures of first century Jewish Palestine an awareness of the relevance of the teaching of the evangelists and Jesus to such contemporary problems as the proper Christian attitude toward the poor and women

Divorce and Celibacy in the New Testament and the Implications for the Church Today: One Interpretation: Five Conferences for New Camaldoli Hermitage [Lecture Notes]

Traditional Church teaching on divorce and celibacy rests on an interpretation of key New Testament texts. In five lectures to the monks of New Camaldoli Hermitage, Dr. Scott Sinclair argued that this established interpretation is basically incorrect. He offered a different interpretation which could justify a new Christian approach to divorce and celibacy. The accompanying document consists of his detailed lecture notes which clearly present a concise summary of his position. These could be used as a resource for a study group, classroom teaching and discussion, or even a reconsideration of Church policy

Jesus, Mark, Paul, and John Said WHAT? The Evolution of Deliberately Puzzling Material in the New Testament

The deliberately puzzling sayings of Jesus pose both historical and theological problems. When Jesus said that we must hate our father and mother to be his disciple or that if we only had a tiny amount of faith we could move a mountain, there is the historical problem of what he could possibly have meant and why he chose to express himself so strangely. There is also the theological problem of how Christians are to apply this material today. Do such statements make sense in our own lives, and should Christians today imitate Jesus in speaking in enigmas? In the following brief book we will begin by tackling the historical problem of Jesus’s enigmatic speech. We will consider some of the many possible approaches to understanding Jesus’s puzzling rhetoric, and examine the limitations of them. Then I will outline what I think is the most fruitful approach and illustrate it by using it to interpret a series of strange sayings of Jesus.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1077/thumbnail.jp