In this course, developed by an expert in New Testament Studies and Theology, we will consider, use, and interpret the Bible for sports contexts thoughtfully and faithfully. We will first examine several unhelpful uses of the Bible applied to sports before looking at how we might understand the Scriptures on its own terms. We end the course by returning to the world of sports and the Bible and discovering how they might be brought together in a way that is faithful to the text, useful for the believer, and transformational for our involvement in sports. This eight-week course runs 10/05/26-11/29/26.
Course outcomes include:
- Explore how Christian athletes can meaningfully connect their activities in sports to the Bible
- Thoughtfully and faithfully apply the Bible to their daily lives
- Understand and articulate the diverse cultural contexts of the Bible and the role it plays in interpretation
- Understand how to read sporting contexts through the Bible (and not vice versa)
- Appropriately understand and apply the athletic metaphors in the Bible
- Explore creative ways the Bible speaks into sports apart from athletic imagery
