Podcasts and audio courses

Here is the first session of our Lent Course in 2025: How Can we read the Bible? In this session we discuss some introductory questions and then explore allegorical reading which was prevalent in the early Church through to late Medieval times:

In the second session of our Lent Course in 2025, we begin to look at some ways of reading scripture which can be described as historical-critical, looking at the Biblical text and its underlying sources.

In the third session of our Lent Course in 2025 we look at “redaction criticism” or how the bible was shaped by its final editors. This is of particular interest in understanding the theology of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke).

In the fourth session of our Lent Course, we look at “canonical criticism”. We consider how the canon of sacred scripture came to be recognised and how we can read scripture as a unified whole with an overall message.

The fifth and final session of our Lent Course of 2025, in which we discuss the riches and challenges of feminist biblical criticism as a way of reading the Bible.

Here are the six sessions of the teaching series by Revd Dr Anders Bergquist on St Paul and the Troublesome Christians of Corinth.