The registration period for next term’s Davenant Hall courses is soon ending. My next course is ‘The Bible and Politics’ (you can see the syllabus for the course if you follow the link).

Davenant Hall courses only cost $225 to audit, for at least 20 hours of class time. The recordings of Davenant Hall classes are provided exclusively to registered students, so, if a student is registered for a class, they can watch any classes that they miss. For auditors, who don’t have attendance requirements, this makes things even more flexible.

Every Davenant Hall class I’ve taught has had a very wide variety of students—people of different ages, academic backgrounds, vocations, and contexts. Davenant Hall students have an appetite for learning and many auditors have taken several classes from different lecturers. Taking a class that stretches your mind and opens up new horizons of thought can be exhilarating. It might be your first taste of such a class or a return to more academic study after several years. You don’t need to be an academic, or aiming for academia, to fit in completely.

The following is the description of my course.

The words and teachings of the Bible are frequently deployed and appealed to in our political discourses. Yet such engagement with the Bible is typically superficial and merely rhetorical; while the Bible affords shallow prooftexts and resonant turns of phrase, it is seldom serving as a deep and guiding source of wisdom in our political thinking. In recent decades, after a long period of neglect, the importance of the Bible’s influence in historic political reflection has received growing attention. In addition to considering such retrievals of the Bible’s significance as a political text for historic thinkers, this course will seek to discover more of the Bible’s enduring insight and generative potential for political reflection. We will investigate some of the variegated ways that the Bible encourages, serves, and directs our political reflection and consider how we can engage with its voice most responsibly and profitably.

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