NT032-812 - Interpreting and Applying Romans

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT742-4.

NT051

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of Romans

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of Romans

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of Romans

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of Romans

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Romans’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Authorship, provenance and date of Romans
  2. Recent developments in Pauline scholarship, especially the New Perspective on Paul
  3. Structure and argument
  4. Exegesis of selected chapters
  5. Preaching Romans today
  6. Sample sermons on Romans with evaluation and discussion

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Prescribed:

Bird, Michael F. The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective (PBM Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2007)

Keener, Craig S. Romans: A New Covenant Commentary NCC 6 (Eugene: Cascade, 2009)
 

Indicative:

Moo, Douglas J. Encountering the Book of Romans (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002)

Bryan, Christopher. A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Epistle in Its Literary and Cultural Setting (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Das, A. Andrew. Solving the Romans Debate (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007)

Donfried, Karl P., ed. The Romans Debate [Rev] (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991)

Elliott, Neil. The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire PCC (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008)

Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul [Rev] (Minneapolis: Fortress,

Esler, Philip F. Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003)

Haacker, Klaus. The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Romans NTT (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Kaylor, R. David. Paul’s Covenant Community: Jew and Gentile in Rome (Atlanta: John Knox, 1988)

Kirk, Daniel. Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008)

Kuula, Kari. The Law, the Covenant and God’s Plan. Vol. 2, Paul’s Treatment of the Law and Israel in Romans. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 85 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003)

Longenecker, Richard N. Introducing Romans: Critical Concerns in Paul’s Most Famous Letter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011)

Nanos, Mark. The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context for Paul’s Letter (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996)

Rapa, Robert K. The Meaning of “Works of the Law” in Galatians and Romans SBL 31 (New York: Peter Lang, 2001)

Seeley, David. The Noble Death: Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul’s Concept of Salvation JSNTSup 28  (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990)

Stowers, Stanley K. A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)

Tobin, Thomas H. Paul’s Rhetoric in Its Contexts: The Argument of Romans (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004

Wedderburn, A. J. M. The Reasons for Romans (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991)