Healing Violence in the World: The Letter of Peter to Philip

About the Course

This course, the second in the Nag Hammadi series, explores some of the practical and enduring ideas the early Christ people had about facing violence.

Presenters Dr. Shirley Paulson and her co-instructor, Dr. Hal Taussig, guide you through some surprising new ideas about Jesus in this little-known text, The Letter of Peter to Philip. Jesus gives his ambassadors (i.e. disciples) guidance in confronting the violence they faced by teaching them with six steps how to pray, find their inner strength, experience joy, and preach salvation themselves.

The course offers you cutting edge scholarship without the need to enroll in a university course. It creates a more vivid and relevant picture of what Jesus meant in the first two centuries, providing you with your own new tools for confronting violence in the twenty-first century.

What to expect:

The course is divided into six sections, each section containing several lectures. You can watch the recordings at your convenience and enjoy continuing access to it. The full course includes two hours and forty minutes of recorded instruction.

Two Types of Courses

Bible and Beyond offers two different types of courses. One is a self-study course. This consists of recorded lectures which you can view at your own pace, 24/7. You can purchase the self-study version of any course and immediately start learning at any time. The other is a live online hybrid course. Live online hybrid courses consist of recorded lectures you can watch anytime, and six live Zoom discussions led by Dr. Shirley Paulson. A variety of live online hybrid courses are offered at different times throughout the year. Check the live online hybrid course page to learn more and check out the schedule.

Enrollment in this self-study course is available now, and priced at $49.00.

When it’s being offered, enrollment in the Live Online Hybrid version of the course is $129.00.

Would you like to host a live online hybrid course group? If you and a group of friends are interested in taking a course together, we are interested in making that happen! All courses are available as live online hybrids, so just get in touch with us to work out the details.