Jesus and Salvation

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The first Christians announced that they had experienced salvation in and through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. This course will explore the meaning of that experience for that first generation of believers as well as for today. The first half of the course will explore a biblical and theological portrait of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus and the faith journey of the first disciples. The second half of the course will consider questions about Jesus' identity and the meaning of salvation in the early church and in today's global context including the meaning of Christian hope in a world of suffering and religious and cultural pluralism, and whether a Christian understanding of salvation includes all persons and all of creation.