NT435 - Pauline Theology and Romans (Greek Text)

  • 0 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 4
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

LA004A and LA004B

Corequisites

NT302

Exclusions

NT425

NT429

NT439

Set Text Greek

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses, and the original language set text requirement of the Master of Divinity.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

  1. Pauline Theology: its major themes and integrating ideas
  2. Contemporary issues in the study of Paul, especially the ‘new perspective’ on Paul
  3. The themes and theology of Romans
  4. Relation of Romans to the other Pauline writings
  5. The Greek text of Romans
  6. The nature and methods of New Testament exegesis

B. Be able to

  1. Use sources such as lexicons, theological dictionaries, grammars, textual analyses, commentaries and on-line resources
  2. Identify the authorship, date and purpose
  3. Translate into English
  4. Evaluate textual variants and issues in the history of the text
  5. Recognise literary form, genre, structure and rhetorical conventions
  6. Utilize the historical, social and cultural contexts
  7. Assign passages to the literary and canonical contexts
  8. Establish the meaning of significant words and phrases in the contexts of Paul’s other writings
  9. Trace inter-textual references and allusions
  10. Discuss the main themes, arguments and theological teachings
  11. Translate and Exegete the Greek text of selected passages from Romans
  12. Explain the place of Romans in the development of Paul’s theology

C. Be in a position to

  1. Exegete the Greek text of the Romans for personal understanding and for use in ministry contexts
  2. Integrate perspectives from Romans and Paul’s other writings into biblical interpretation and  Christian thinking
  3. Apply the teaching of Romans and Paul’s other writings to situations and issues in contemporary Christianity and society

Content

  1. Pauline theology: its integrating ideas and its major themes (e.g. Christology, eschatology, ecclesiology, Paul and the law, centrum Paulinum).
  2. The major issues in contemporary study and the central themes of Romans.
  3. Translation and exegesis of the Greek text of six chapters from Romans 1–8.

Set Readings

Pauline Theology

Becker, J., Paul Apostle to the Gentiles (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1993).

Dunn, J. D. G., The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

Dunn, J. D. G. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to St. Paul (Cambridge: CUP, 2003).

Fee, G., God’s Empowering Presence (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994).

Fitzmyer, J. A., “Pauline Theology” in The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990).

Nanos, M. D., The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul's Letter (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996).

Pate, C. M., The End of the Age Has Come: The Theology of Paul (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995).

Penna, R., Paul the Apostle (Vols I & II; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1996).

Sanders, E. P., Paul and Palestinian Judaism (London: SCM, 1977).

Stowers, S. K., Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles (New Haven: Yale Unuversity, 1994).

Westerholm, S., Perspectives Old and New on Paul (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).

 

Romans – Studies and Commentaries

Byrne, B., Romans (Colligeville, MN: Liturgical, 1996).

Chae, D. J–S., Paul as Apostle to the Gentiles: His Apostolic Self–Awareness and its Influence on the Soteriological Argument of Romans (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1997).

Cranfield, C. E. B., Romans: A Shorter Commentary (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1985).

Donfried, K. P., The Romans Debate (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991).

Donfried, K. P. and P. Richardson (eds), Judaism and Christianity in first–Century Rome (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998).

Dunn, J. D. G., Romans (2 Vols; Dallas, TX: Word, 1988).

Fitzmyer, J. A., Romans (New York: Doubleday, 1993).

Moo, D. J., The Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996).

Schreiner, T. R., Romans (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998).

Soderlund, S. K. and N. T. Wright (eds), Romans and the People of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999).

Stendahl, K., The Final Account: Paul’s Letter to the Romans (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995).

Wedderburn, A. J. M., The Reasons for Romans (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1991).

Westerholm, S., Understanding Paul: The Early Christian Worldview of the Letter to the Romans (2nd ed.; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).

Wright, N. T., ‘Romans’ in The New Interpreter's Bible (Vol. X; Nashville: Abingdon, 2002).