LICENTIATE IN BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

HoD: Dr. Antu Nayangara, CMI

Email: antunayangara@dvk.in 

Vision: Intensive training of mature theologians and teachers of the Bible, and guiding them through a process of critical and creative study and reflection on biblical texts in their dynamic contexts.

Objectives:

1. Systematic and scientific reflection and understanding of biblical texts in their life contexts.
2. Understanding the Bible in its historical, social, cultural, and religious milieu.
3. Training towards proficiency in exegetical-theological analysis of biblical texts.
4. Preparing personnel for teaching in seminaries and other centres of religious education and formation.
5. Helping the participants to acquire the ability to have an integral biblical approach and vision of life.
6. Promoting serious study and research on biblical texts in the Indian context.

Principal Courses:

1. Biblical Hermeneutics: New Developments
2. A Journey through Biblical Times and Archaeology
3. Textual Criticism of the OT and NT
4. Covenant Perspectives of Abraham Narratives
5. Deuteronomy and Deuteronomistic Theology
6. Prophet as Social Critic: Relevance of Propheticism in the Contemporary Church
7. An Exegetical Study of the Servant Songs in Isaiah
8. Faith Response to Life Experiences
9. An Exegetical & Theological Study of the Book of Job
10. Miracles of Jesus: Contemporary Trends and Challenges
11.  Paul as a Pastoral Theologian in the Corinthian Church
12. Metaphor of Yahweh-Israel Relationship in Hosea

Optional Courses:

1. Origin of Israel and Settlement Theories
2. Compassion of God in the OT: A Lexicographical Analysis
3. The Synoptic Problem
4. Covenant and Ten Commandments
5. Pauline Theology and the World of Christianity.
6. Scripture, Tradition, and the Teaching of the Church as the Source of Christian Ethics