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Date posted: 听 Jan 24, 2024

New Testament Visions of Faith

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Fee: $60 | Six Weeks
When considering the meaning of Christian faith, we often focus on how the individual believes and acts.听 However, in the New Testament, true faith begins in God鈥檚 loving faithfulness towards us. Our faith, then, is a response of trust in God鈥檚 mercy.听


This course explores the various images of the call to faith presented in each of the Gospels, and in the letters of St. Paul. Such images include seeking right relationship, transforming the way we see the world, abiding in God, and other patterns for the life of discipleship.

featuring videos withDominic Doyle, Colleen Griffith, Kenneth Himes O.F.M., Jane E. Regan, John R. Sachs, S.J.

"We must rediscover a taste for feeding ourselves on the word of God, faithfully handed down by the Church, and on the Bread of Life, offered as sustenance for His disciples." - Pope Benedict XVI听(The Door of Faith)

This course has a required text: Thomas D. Stegman, S.J.听Opening the Doors of Faith: Encountering Jesus and His Call to Discipleship. Paulist Press, 2015. () ()

Topics听

Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Matthew
Week 3: Mark
Week 4: Luke
Week 5: John
Week 6: Paul

Additional Materials Needed:

Thomas D. Stegman, S.J.听Opening the Doors of Faith: Encountering Jesus and His Call to Discipleship. Paulist Press, 2015. () ()

Certificate Requirement Categories

  • Sacred Scripture
  • Themes of Our Christian Tradition

Content Scholars:

Dr. Dominic Doyle听(video) is associate professor of systematic theology at the 涩里番下载 School of Theology and Ministry;听Dr. Colleen M. Griffith听(video) is professor of the practice of theology and faculty director of spirituality studies at the 涩里番下载 School of Theology and Ministry;听Fr. Kenneth Himes, O.F.M., (video) is professor of theological ethics at the 涩里番下载 Department of Theology;听Dr. Jane E. Regan听(video) is associate professor of theology and religious education and chair of the Department of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at the 涩里番下载 School of Theology and Ministry;听Fr. John R. Sachs, S.J., (video) is a former associate professor of systematic theology at the 涩里番下载 School of Theology and Ministry, and presently a retreat director at Eastern Point Retreat House, Gloucester, MA; and听Fr. Thomas Stegman, S.J., (text) is dean and associate professor of New Testament at the 涩里番下载 School of Theology and Ministry.