Mobile Ed: NT371 Greek Exegesis: 1 John (7 hour course)
Overview
Put your knowledge of Greek into action with Greek Exegesis: 1 John (NT371). In this exegetical course, Dr. John D. Schwandt employs a close reading of the Greek text to do an inductive study of 1 John. After providing an overall introduction to the epistle, Dr. Schwandt walks you passage-by-passage through a careful grammatical-syntactical analysis of the book. At each step of the way, he highlights viable optional interpretations and then argues for the interpretation he thinks most apt for John’s context. You’ll come away from this course not only with a better understanding of 1 John, but also with tools you can use to study other New Testament books.
- Read and translate 1 John from a Greek text
- Make the case for who you think John’s implied audience was
- Make the case for who you think John’s implied opposition was
- Discuss common interpretive problems and argue for good contextual solutions
- Make an exegetically based application of John’s message to today’s church
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and Course
Unit 1: Introduction to 1 John
- Inductive Bible Study Method Applied
- Implied Opposition: Part 1
- Implied Opposition: Part 2
- The Big Picture of 1 John
Unit 2: The Age of Light/Life and the Age of Darkness/Death (1 John 1:1–10)
- The Opening (1 John 1:1)
- Structure and Patterns (1 John 1:1–2)
- Focus: Eternal Life (1 John 1:1–2)
- Reason for Writing: Fellowship (1 John 1:3–4)
- Message: God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
- Message: Dark Side (1 John 1:6–10)
- Message: Light Side (1 John 1:6–10)
- Dialogue Partners (1 John 1:10)
Unit 3: Reconciliation through Christ (1 John 2:1–27)
- The New High Place (1 John 2:1)
- Concerning the World (1 John 2:2)
- Paradigm of the New World (1 John 2:3–5)
- Restatement of Fellowship (1 John 2:6)
- Law of the New World (1 John 2:7–8)
- Inhabitants of Two Worlds (1 John 2:9–11)
- Victory of the New World (1 John 2:12–14)
- Passing of Old World (1 John 2:15–17)
- Two Forces: The Leavers (1 John 2:18–19)
- Two Forces: Those Who Stay (1 John 2:20–21)
- The Liar (1 John 2:22–23)
- The Promise (1 John 2:24–25)
- An Anointing (1 John 2:26–27)
Unit 4: The Children of God (1 John 2:28–3:12)
- Overview of 1 John 2:28–4:21
- Abiding in God (1 John 2:28–29)
- The Love of God (1 John 3:1)
- Sons of God (1 John 3:2–3)
- Not Lawless (1 John 3:4–6)
- Two Fathers: Part 1 (1 John 3:7–8)
- Two Fathers: Part 2 (1 John 3:9–10)
- Two Fathers: Part 3 (1 John 3:11–12)
Unit 5: Antithetical Example: Cain (1 John 3:13–24)
- World as Cain (1 John 3:13–15)
- Cain versus Christ: Part 1 (1 John 3:16)
- Cain versus Christ: Part 2 (1 John 3:17–18)
- Law on the Heart: Part 1 (1 John 3:19–20)
- Law on the Heart: Part 2 (1 John 3:21–22)
- The Law and Its Seal (1 John 3:23–24)
Unit 6: Love as a Family Trait (1 John 4:1–21)
- Opposing Spirits: Part 1 (1 John 4:1)
- Opposing Spirits: Part 2 (1 John 4:2–3)
- Overcoming Children (1 John 4:4)
- God’s Offspring (1 John 4:5–6)
- True Confession (1 John 4:7–8)
- True Love (1 John 4:9–10)
- The Spirit among Us: Part 1 (1 John 4:11–12)
- The Spirit among Us: Part 2 (1 John 4:13–14)
- The Spirit among Us: Part 3 (1 John 4:15–16)
- Day of Judgment (1 John 4:17)
- Fear vs. Love (1 John 4:18)
- Seeing God (1 John 4:19–21)
Unit 7: Faith as a Family Trait (1 John 5:1–21)
- Victorious Faith (1 John 5:1, 4)
- True Heirs (1 John 5:1, 4)
- Loving One Another and God (1 John 5:2–3)
- The Victor (1 John 5:5)
- The Witnesses (1 John 5:6–9)
- The Faithful Witness (1 John 5:10–12)
- Benefits in This Age (1 John 5:13–15)
- Sin unto Death: Part 1 (1 John 5:16–17)
- Sin unto Death: Part 2 (1 John 5:18–19)
- The True God vs. Idols (1 John 5:20–21)
Conclusion
- Conclusion to the Course
- Title: NT371 Greek Exegesis: 1 John
- Instructor: John D. Schwandt
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2020
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 7
Partially included
Dr. John D. Schwandt is president of Redemption Seminary. Prior to this role, he served as the Executive Director of Mobile Education for Faithlife. Before coming to Faithlife, he was one of the original professors at New Saint Andrews College where he taught Greek and New Testament for 17 years. He has over a decade of experience teaching online and developing distance educational curricula.
He is the author of a comprehensive beginning Greek grammar, An introduction to Biblical Greek (Lehxam Press, 2020). He was the general editor of the English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament: English Standard Version (Crossway Books, 2006), and he recorded an audio version of the Greek New Testament for the German Bible Society. You have heard his voice if you have clicked on any Greek word to hear it pronounced in Logos Bible Software.
Schwandt earned his doctorate in Bible translation at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. He earned his master of arts from Westminster Theological Seminary in California, and he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho.
Reviews
4 ratings
Ken McClurkin
1/17/2023
Peter Mountain
12/21/2022
I have been working through Mobile Education Course NT371 on the Greek Text of 1 John. I have been a bit disappointed with the lack of clarity both in Dr Schwandt's video presentation and the accompanying text. In some places it is not clear what the main points are and some sentences are obscure. Perhaps this is because Dr Schwandt speaks ad hoc rather than using a carefully edited script.
Jeremy Lyerla
2/6/2022
Torbjørn S Jakobsen
2/26/2021
