Undergrad courses
Since SP relies on recurring symbols, word patterns, narrative arcs, and theological movements that can often be observed in translation (once you know what to look for), we can structure a 3-course undergraduate series to give a rich and practical foundation. Here's a suggested breakdown:
🧾 Proposed Undergraduate Track for Sensus Plenior (No Hebrew Required)[edit | edit source]
🎓 Course 1: Introduction to Sensus Plenior Hermeneutics [edit | edit source]
Focus: Foundations — the living voice, symbolic reading, narrative patterns
- Learn symbolic structure of Scripture
- Recognize letter-based meanings through guided teaching
- Trace the cross and the bride in story, symbol, and structure
- Apply SP without decoding full Hebrew text
➡️ Outcome: Student can identify and trace symbolic patterns across the Bible and recognize the Christ-centered narrative.
🎓 Course 2: Applied Symbolic Reading [edit | edit source]
Focus: Symbol families, numbers, spiritual themes, repeated narrative arcs
Emphasis: Deepen interpretive skill across genres — Torah, poetry, Gospels, epistles
- Expand symbol families: fire, seed, mountain, tree, shepherd, garments, etc TBD.
- Train in thematic clusters and literary mirroring
- Analyze story arc of the cross: before, during, after.
- Use Genesis → Revelation connections as practice grounds
➡️ Outcome: Student can confidently interpret select scriptures through the lens of recurring cross-symbols and spiritual structure without Hebrew.
🎓 Course 3: Narrative Theology and the Bride [edit | edit source]
Focus: Theological structure of the bride and Christ in every page
Emphasis: Typology, transformation, identity, and spiritual formation
- Study the how Christ obtains his bride through the cross.
- Focus on the shadows of Christ and how they reveal the bride.
- Examine typology of men, women, vessels, animals, and garments
- Reflective and personal: SP as a tool for formation, not just knowledge
➡️ Outcome: Student interprets Scripture as a relational, covenantal story — hearing God speak directly to the bride through every layer of the Word.
✅ Summary[edit | edit source]
- Three courses are sufficient for a complete undergraduate grasp of SP without requiring Hebrew.
- Hebrew insight is provided through guided instruction (e.g., gates, formations, letter meaning) but not expected as a language skill.
- This track develops readers into listeners — who hear Christ in all Scripture through revealed pattern. ----
