Melville Divinity Hall
BS553 · 4 credits · Graduate

New Testament Exegesis II: The Pauline Epistles

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Romans, Galatians, the Corinthian letters and the prison and pastoral epistles, with justification, union with Christ, the law and the Spirit in view. Romans 13:1-7 is exegeted here, while the two Scottish positions on the magistrate are taught in the paired unit.

These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.

How to begin

  1. Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
  2. Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
  3. Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
  4. Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.

Syllabus

  1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

    • Acts and Paul (45 lectures; Pauline lectures from about number 18) Richard Gaffin (Westminster Theological Seminary) 45 lectures, 2005 (Paul and his interpreters; eschatological structure; Christ's resurrection and believers'; Christ and the Spirit; the Christian life) Open source Doctrinal Westminster Theological Seminary Their doctrinal role rests on their seminaries' faculty subscription requirements (RTS, WTS, GPTS). The RTS and GPTS pages loaded this session give titles and books but not the teacher's denomination; the WTS faculty page did not render for the fetcher. Clowney, Gaffin and Young are historic OPC ministers;...
    • A Revelation-Historical Interpretation of Romans 3:21-26 (Christ the Center) Dr. Marcus Mininger (Mid-America Reformed Seminary; associate pastor, New Covenant Community Church, OPC, Joliet) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
    • All Israel Shall be Saved: Interpretations of Romans 11 (Christ the Center) Camden Bucey and Glen Clary (Reformed Forum) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
    • Galatians (Christ the Center) David B. McWilliams (Covenant Presbyterian Church, Lakeland) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum
    • The History of Heaven: Paul's Christological Interpretation of the New Beginning in 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 Lane G. Tipton Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
    • Under Law (Romans 6:14) Prof. Donald Macleod (Free Church of Scotland) Lecture part 7; transcript on the page Open source Doctrinal Free Church Legacy (Free Church of Scotland)
    • Ephesians 2:4-10 The Good News (Proclaiming Christ) Jim Cassidy with other Proclaiming Christ participants Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum The episode pages name the participants but do not print their churches. Reformed Forum's About page requires its board members to belong to NAPARC or ICRC churches subscribing to the Three Forms or the Westminster Standards, and its board page lists Cassidy (president), Arendale (vice president) and Clawson, so...
    • Paul's Understanding of the Law (11 lectures) T. David Gordon (Westminster Theological Seminary, 1997) 11 lectures Open source Supplementary Westminster Theological Seminary Gordon (PCA) has publicly argued against the Westminster Standards' Sabbatarian reading of the fourth commandment and takes a minimal view of the moral law's third use; this departs from WCF 19 and 21.7-8 and HC Lord's Day 38 as the school reads them. Kept as supplementary only, for Pauline exegesis of the law...
    • Hechos y cartas de Pablo (video and slides) Seminario Reformado Guadalajara (instructor not named on the page) Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara Instructors are not named on the course pages (the site belongs to Dr. Larry Trotter, Florida Coast Church / Knox Theological Seminary adjunct); the Hebrew and Greek courses are by Mario Porras and Pablo Armero (MINTS), whose church standing is unconfirmed. The site also hosts PDFs of in-copyright textbooks...

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