Micah Schuurman: Biblical Aesthetics, week 6

BIBLICAL AESTHETICS

How the Bible and Christian Faith teach us to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell differently

Final Lesson.

  1. Review of Latin American method of interpretation: Read, Observe, Interpret, Apply, Repeat. But you will changed by going through the cycle, so will read the passage differently the next time.

  2. Lord’s Supper: the different ways the Lord’s Supper is celebrated by churches results in very different experiences for those attending. What is communicating by these different practices?

  3. Baptism: the practice of immersing infants arguably well captures the Biblical theme of going into the water representing burial and emerging from the water representing raising to life (c.f., Colossians 2:12).

  4. Music: Bach’s St. John Passion’s setting of the gospel “passion” narrative dramatizes the events. Response arias & choruses additionally place the listener in the drama & relate it directly to their lives.

BACh St. John Passion Video Recording
Bach St. Matthew Passion Video Recording

Below is the video we didn’t get to this week. It is about other liturgies or “habits that form us.”

Biblical AestheticsJoel & Karin .