Overview: Christian Scriptures (SCS 105)
Wednesdays via ZOOM
April 2 – April 30, 2025 — 6:30pm to 8:30pm (ET)
Instructor: Sylvia “Nzinga” Quinton, LUT
This course explores the Gospels, letters, history (Book of Acts), and apocalyptic literature (Book of Revelation) that comprises what is more commonly known as the “New Testament” of the Judeo-Christian Bible. The student will develop a basic understanding of the Christian Scriptures’ meaning for the people to whom they were written. This course is based on the premise that, whatever else the Christian Scriptures may be; they most definitely are the response of early Christian writers to both the person and the message of Jesus Christ. This course examines the Christian Scriptures as a testament about Jesus by early Christian communities.
About the Instructor:
Sylvia-Nzinga Quinton, Esq., EdD (Nzinga) is lifelong learner of practical disciplines of spiritual formation and Yoga as a spiritual practice. She studies at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in Nassau, Bahamas. Nzinga has received two Yoga instructor certifications from the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy the International Sivananda Vedanta Centre founded by Swami Vishnudevananada: the 200-hour residential Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course and Chair Yoga. She specializes in Yoga for the limited mobile, disabled, and seniors. Nzinga is a Licensed Unity Teacher. She is a member of Unity of Washington, D.C.
Required Textbooks:
• Bible (New Revised Standard Version)
• Borg, Marcus J. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, New York: Harper Collins, 1989.
Recommended Text/Readings
• Ehrman, Bart D. A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Robertson, A.T. A Harmony of the Gospels
• Throckmorton, Burton H. Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992.
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