Description
Get to know Paul, a first-century Jew whose confidence in Jesus as God?s Messiah changed the world. The course focuses on the world of Paul, what we know about Paul himself, and how we can best read Paul?s letters as contextual theology that continue to matter. The primary question of the course is Paul?s question: how did God?s calling of the Gentiles in Christ as God?s own people change their lives and the lives of all God?s people? In other words, what difference did baptism make? To get at this question, the course examines Paul?s world and two different examples of Paul?s letters: Philemon and Galatians. What can we learn about and from Paul?