The Mission of the Apostles

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course surveys Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament with specific concentration on the mission and ethics. This course is designed to help students to read the biblical text within its historical and cultural context, so that students can articulate how early Christians offered an apology for the Pauline and Apostolic church through their ethos of missio dei, and how this early Christian rhetoric is still meaningful for the modern readers. Passages for reading will be chosen according to their featuring the main topic (mission and ethics) and class discussion will be examined in light of modern commentaries and other resource that provides historical contexts of the early Roman empire. The course hour (3 credit hours/week) is divided into three parts: asynchronous video recording session on Friday (1 credit), synchronous discussion on Wednesday (1 credit), and asynchronous online discussion (1 credit).