Description

Course Description
This course is an interactive investigation of the Book of Psalms, with a special emphasis on how the psalms have been, and can be, used within the devotional life of a Christian. The course will consider the psalms in their historical and canonical context.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course students

1. will synthesize the complexities both historically and hermeneutically associated with applying the psalms to Jesus Christ.
2. will be able to associate several approaches to psalm study with particular individuals, whether in the Bible or in Christian history.
3. will appreciate and appropriate the potential offered by the Psalter for spiritual reflection and growth.