Evening Courses @EAST (July to November 2015)
Do join in one or both of EAST Evening Courses beginning the week of 20 July 2015:
Theology of Missions – by Dr. Raymond Song (IS540A, 2 credits)
Tuesdays: 7.00 pm – 9.15 pm
Will you join a mission trip in the future or mobilize others to go? This course will better equip you through a study of the underlying principles and theological presuppositions of the global Christian mission. It provides theological foundations for the global mission of the church, and will attempt to help you unify and integrate a wide range of theological themes in and around the issues of mission. Basic issues that confront the missionary will be investigated, as well as the more complex and contemporary issues.
Physical Settings of the Bible – by Dr. Keith Shubert (BS531, 2 Credits)
Selected Thursdays: 7.00 pm – 9.15 pm
Have you gone on a Holy Land tour in the past and would like to learn more about the places you visited? Or would you like to go sometime in the future? This course will help you better understand the biblical geography, history, and culture. The evening seminars are designed to enhance your personal understanding and study of the Bible.
You may want to take advantage of EAST’s SG50 Promotions including First Course Free and 50% Off Seconds. Click here to sign up online.
Student Handbook 2015
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Theology 1 (Day Course)
TS510 Theology 1 (3 credits)
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9.00 am – 10.45 am, 20 July – 20 November 2015
The purpose of this course is to survey, interact with, and imaginatively apply in the contemporary context the major theological and scriptural doctrines relating to the Bible, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Pre-requisites: BS510 Bible Study Methods and Hermeneutics, TS510 Worldview and Biblical Decision Making or IS520 Contextualisation. Students taking this course for audit (i.e. not for credit), will not be required to fulfil the pre-requisites.
Matthew Winslow, ThM
Matthew is a Cru staff since 2002 and has ministered cross-culturally in East Asia before doing his ThM degree in Historical Theology and Cross-cultural Ministry. Matthew loves thinking carefully about who God is and how we can communicate him to others in light of current questions that are being asked.
You may register online or contact us if you have any query. Registration deadline is Friday, 10 July 2015.
The complete 2015-2015 First Semester Courses Information PDF brochure may be downloaded or visit the 2015-2016 First Semester Courses Information page.
Worldview & Biblical Decision Making (Day Course)
TS560 Worldview and Biblical Decision Making (2 credits)
Wednesdays: 9.00 am – 11.15 am, 20 July – 20 November 2015
Your worldview shapes how you live even if you don’t know what it is and how it works. This course seeks to explore the big questions of life and develop the necessary categories to develop a Biblical view of life to help you develop a truly Christian framework for moral decision making. You will be encouraged to apply creatively and thoughtfully what you learn to a number of case studies and scenarios as well as teach the information to others. You will also develop a ministry project that will be genuinely helpful to the context in which you serve.
Jose Philip, ThM
Jose Philip is the Director for Itinerant Development with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (Asia-Pacific). He grew up in India and became a follower of Jesus Christ at the age of fourteen. While working in the Middle East he discovered his passion for teaching and preaching the Word. As a result he moved to Singapore and completed both an MDiv in Biblical Studies and ThM at Singapore Bible College. Since graduating in 2008 he has taught in various settings and countries.
You may register online or contact us if you have any query. Registration deadline is Friday, 10 July 2015.
The complete 2015-2015 First Semester Courses Information PDF brochure may be downloaded or visit the 2015-2016 First Semester Courses Information page.
Major Endorsement for Book: Matthean Posteriority
Dr. Robert K. MacEwen, an EAST Resident Faculty on Biblical Studies and author of recently published Matthean Posteriority: An Exploration of Matthew’s Use of Mark and Luke as a Solution to the Synoptic Problem, has received a weighty endorsement from Dr. Richard Bauckham on the scholarly work:
The “Matthean Posteriority” theory of Synoptic relationships is a hypothesis whose time has come. Robert MacEwen makes a moderate and judicious case, weighing its merits and its weaknesses against its rivals. Astonishingly, this has never been done before. All Gospels scholars must now take this hypothesis as seriously as its rivals.
Dr. Bauckham, a major New Testament scholar, is Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall, University of Cambridge. His many publications include Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Theology of the Book of Revelation, and 2 Peter, Jude in the Word Biblical Commentary series.
The book, Matthean Posteriority, is part of the Library of New Testament Studies series and explores the Matthean Posteriority Hypothesis (MPH), a largely neglected solution to the Synoptic Problem which holds that the author of the Gospel of Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a source, and that the author of the Gospel of Matthew used both the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Luke as sources.
MacEwen begins with a survey of the scholars who have defended various forms of the MPH. Chapter 2 discusses two key lines of evidence which support the MPH. The first line of evidence is textual – demonstrating that Matthew could have known the contents of Luke’s Gospel beyond merely the double tradition material. The second line of evidence, involving a study of strings of verbatim agreements in the Gospels, supports the view that Matthew depended directly on Luke. Chapter 3 explores evidence and arguments which can be seen as problematic for the MPH. MacEwen concludes that the MPH has been neither definitely proved nor disproved, and deserves further scholarly scrutiny.
The book may be purchased from Amazon.com or BookDepository.com.
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