Theological and Spiritual Themes in the Pauline Letters - KBIB121

• Title: Theological and Spiritual Themes in the Pauline Letters
• Guaranteed by: Department of Biblical Sciences and ancient languages (26-KBV)
• Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. ThLic. Jaroslav Brož, Th.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. ThLic. Jaroslav Brož, Th.D. (29.06.2015)

The course tries to offer a synthesis of Paul’s theological thinking focusing on the main topics of Pauline letters. The method of the seminar involves both a reading and exegetical commentary of selected texts and a systematic research of relative theological and spiritual themes.

Literature

Last update: doc. ThLic. Jaroslav Brož, Th.D. (29.06.2016)

Required Readings

Frank J. Matera. God's Saving Grace. A Pauline Theology. Grand Rapids (MI): William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012.

 

Supplementary Readings

Syllabus

Last update: doc. ThLic. Jaroslav Brož, Th.D. (29.06.2015)

1. Introduction: A Pauline Theology of God's Saving Grace

2. Paul's Experience of God's Saving Grace

     2.1. Paul's Call and Conversion according to the Letters

     2.2. Paul's Call and Conversion according to Acts

     2.3. Paul's Gospel and Apostleship

3. Christ the Embodiment of God's Saving Grace

     3.1. The Titles of the Proclaimed Christ

     3.2. The Preexistence of Christ

     3.3. The Corporate Christ

4. The Saving Grace of Jesus Christ

     4.1. Paul's Experience of God's Saving Grace

     4.2. Humanity apart from Christ (texts and dominant themes)

     4.3. Humanity in Christ (text and terminology)

5. Waiting for the Final Appearance of God's Saving Grace

6. The God Revealed through the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ (texts and characteristics of God)