3: Pauline Literature (Keble Theology)

3: Pauline Literature

Course Description and past exam papers.
General reading list as a starting point for most essays.

Essay Topics

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1. Was Paul ‘called’ or ‘converted’ on the road to Damascus?

Compare Paul’s own view in passages like Gal 1.1-20; 2 Cor 3.5-4.6; Phil 3.1-10 with Luke’s accounts in Acts 9, 22 and 26.

2. Is Romans the best starting point for a theology of Paul?
3. For Paul, is Jesus God?
4. What is Pauls' experience and conception of the Holy Spirit?
5. Did Paul change his mind, for example on eschatology?
6. Why is the Paul of Galatians so preoccupied with 'justification'?

7. Does Paul have a consistent theology of church and ministry?
8. What motivated Paul's critics in Corinth?
9. How ‘Pauline’ is Ephesians?
10. ‘Love God and do what you like.’ Is this a defensible summary of Pauline ethics?

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