What Does the Bible Say About Depression? A Whole-Person Framework for Deep Emotional Suffering

This course explores how Scripture speaks to depression not as a spiritual failing or a merely clinical problem, but as a whole-person condition affecting body, soul, and spirit together. Through laments, prophetic testimony, and Christ's own suffering, we discover that the Bible honors emotional darkness as legitimate human experience while pointing toward God's presence, comfort, and redemption. We'll recover the richness of Hebrew and Greek vocabulary, learn from biblical figures who wrestled with despair, and discover how Scripture offers resources that modern frameworks alone cannot—not because it denies the physical reality of suffering, but because it refuses to separate it from the spiritual and relational dimensions of healing.