Course
Introduction to Biblical Theology
Trace the Bible’s major themes across Scripture and learn to read its many books as one unfolding story of God’s redemptive work.
Overview
Read Scripture as one story
Introduction to Biblical Theology helps learners see how the Bible’s diverse books, authors, covenants, and historical settings contribute to one coherent account of God’s redemptive purposes. Rather than treating Scripture as a collection of isolated passages, the course trains students to follow the development of major themes across the canon with patience, clarity, and theological care.
Students examine themes such as creation, covenant, kingdom, temple, sacrifice, exile, redemption, Messiah, and new creation, learning how these ideas emerge in early texts, deepen through later revelation, and reach greater clarity from Genesis to Revelation. The course also shows how individual passages gain fuller meaning when read within their literary setting, historical moment, and place in the broader biblical witness.
Designed for serious independent learners, this course introduces the core questions and methods that shape biblical theology as an academic discipline. Students will consider how biblical theology differs from systematic theology, how later biblical writers draw upon earlier texts and traditions, and how theological themes unfold across both Testaments. By the end of the course, learners will have a stronger framework for reading Scripture as a unified yet richly diverse witness to God’s purposes in history, with greater attentiveness to textual relationships, theological development, and the unfolding story of redemption.
What you will learn
Build a stronger framework
Throughout the course, learners explore how biblical theology asks distinct questions about continuity, development, and fulfillment within Scripture. Attention is given to how later texts echo earlier promises, how covenantal structures shape interpretation, and how the Bible’s theological claims are embedded in narrative, poetry, prophecy, Gospel, and epistle.
The course is especially suited to students who want a more rigorous way to connect close reading with larger theological understanding. By learning to trace themes across the canon without flattening the diversity of biblical voices, students gain a practical method for engaging Scripture with greater historical sensitivity, literary awareness, and theological coherence.
