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107 NT 509 New Testament Survey for Counseling This course provides an introduction to the New Testament and a survey of its contents. Special attention will be devoted to themes and passages with particular significance for counseling. Two credit hours. NT 511 Gospels and Acts This course provides an overview of the intertestamental period, including the religious and political backgrounds to the first century A.D. world. It studies issues of introduction for the four Gospels and Acts, and, using the English New Testament, provides a harmonistic study of the life of Christ with a focus on his essential teachings, the theology of evangelism, and the planting of the church as recorded in Acts. Pre- or corequisite: GS 500 Thinking Biblically and Theologically. Three hours. NT 512 Epistles and Revelation Using the English New Testament, this course surveys the New Testament epistles and the Apocalypse. Issues of introduction and content receive emphasis as well as a continual focus on the theology of evangelism and on the contemporary relevance of issues these documents raise for contemporary life. Pre- or corequisite: GS 500 Thinking Biblically and Theologically. Three hours. NT 540–560 Analysis of Selected Books Engages students electing one of these courses in a careful study of the English text of one or more New Testament books. Two hours. NT 565 The Parables of Jesus Examines the nature and significance of the parables of our Lord in the context of Jesus' teaching, the evangelists' editing and the church today. Two hours. NT 566 Analysis and Practice of the Sermon on the Mount Consists of an analysis of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in order to understand its message for his original hearers and for Matthew the Evangelist. The course will have a dual focus: (1) critical methodology— giving proper place to exegesis, background, and literary structure and (2) theological content and contemporary application. Two hours. NT 570 Same-Sex Attraction: A Biblical and Pastoral Care Perspective Introduces students to pastoral care, counseling, social justice concerns and historical-grammatical exegesis of OT and NT texts relevant to the study of same-sex attraction. Prerequisite: GS 500 Thinking Biblically and Theologically. Two hours. NT 590, 690 Studies in New Testament These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog. Two or three hours. NT 591, 691 Individualized Study in New Testament These course numbers are reserved for courses that are designed to free the student for independent investigation in New Testament under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours.