New Testament Exegesis II: The Pauline Epistles

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...

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • Commentary on Romans John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Corinthians, vol. 1 John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Galatians and Ephesians John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • Commentary on Timothy, Titus, Philemon John Calvin (Calvin Translation Society edition) Open source Primary text 1840s-1850s. Public domain
   • A Brief Exposition of the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Thessalonians (1841 reprint) James Fergusson (Church of Scotland; Westminster Assembly era) Open source Primary text 1841. Public domain
   • Analytical Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans John Brown of Edinburgh Open source Primary text 1857. Public domain Secession (Associate, United Secession, United Presbyterian) divines held the Westminster Standards with the Secession declaration on the civil magistrate (voluntaryism), which differs from WCF 23 (1647) and from the Free Church establishment principle. Kept as primary-text for exegesis; the civil-magistrate...
   • The Pastoral Epistles: the Greek text and translation, with introduction, expository notes Patrick Fairbairn (Free Church of Scotland) Open source Primary text 1874. Public domain
   • Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. 2 (1688 edition) Matthew Poole Open source Primary text 1688. Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.
   • The Dutch Annotations upon the Whole Bible (Statenvertaling annotations, English 1657) Theodore Haak (translator and editor); annotations commissioned by the Synod of Dort (1618) Open source Primary text 1657. Public domain
   • Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation) Matthew Henry Open source Supplementary Public domain English Presbyterian nonconformists outside the Scottish and Dutch lines, though Westminster-confessing; Henry is broadly used across traditions. Poole kept as primary-text (cross-tradition, read beside Calvin and the Dutch Annotations); Henry kept as supplementary, as in the raw file.

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.