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.

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

Biblical AestheticsJoel & Karin .