Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Better understand internal elements of the pastoral epistles such as authorship, and see them in light of their place in the corpus of Pauline writing

• Connect Pauline ethics to contemporary practice

• Uncover new insight in regards to eschatology

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Authorship

• Arguments for Paul

• Arguments against Paul

• Implications

Unit 2: Seven Themes

• 1. Sound Doctrine

• Reverse Interlinears, Inline Search, and First Class Conditionals

• Sound Doctrine: Subthemes 1–6

• Sound Doctrine: Subthemes 7–8

• Conclusions about Proto-Gnosticism

• 2. Salvation: Already/Not Yet

• Using Inline Search and Louw-Nida Numbers

• Salvation Subthemes

• Salvation through Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:15): Four Options

• Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:12–15): An Allegory

• Using Commentaries with Ancient Literature for Exegesis

• Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:12–15): Ephesian Culture

• Salvation as Present and Future: Summary

• 3. Salvation in Our Conduct and Relationships

• Salvation in Relationships: In the Household

• Excursus: Slavery in the Transformed Haustafeln

• 4. Salvation Is Trinitarian

• Using Propositional Outlines to Study Chiasms

• Excursus: Election versus Predestination

• 5. God and Christ

• Excursus: God and Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13)

• 6. Christ Will Return

• 7. Household of God

• Using BDAG to Search for Multiple Words Simultaneously

• Paterfamilias

• Excursus: Priscilla and Women in the Church

Unit 3: Ethics and Eschatology: A Comparative Discussion

• Holy Spirit or Sound Doctrine as Agent of Transformation

• Sound Doctrine and the Spirit of Christ

• Purity and Justification

• Salvation, Works, and Eschatology

• Kingdom of God: Immanent in Luke-Acts

• Kingdom of God: Imminent in Pastoral Epistles

Unit 4: Paul’s Journeys and Correspondence

• First Missionary Journey

• The Jerusalem Council

• Jewish Roots of the Jerusalem Compromise

• Second Missionary Journey

• Third Missionary Journey

• Journey to Rome

• Coupling the Interactive Atlas with Louw-Nida Place Numbers and Media Browser

• Paul’s Correspondence

• Concluding Years of Paul’s Ministry

• Paul in Ephesus (Part 1)

• Paul in Ephesus (Part 2)

• Enhancing Factbook with Media Browser and Biblical Event Navigator

Unit 5: Timothy and Titus

• Timothy’s Background

• Timothy’s Parents

• Timothy: Paul’s Helper

• Timothy: Paul’s Ambassador and Companion

• Timothy: Bishop and Prisoner

• Titus and Crete

• Titius Justus

• Titus: Paul’s Companion and Ambassador

• Paradigms for Paul

Unit 6: Epistles as Occasional Correspondence

• 1 Timothy: Background and Purpose

• Construct a Commentary Concordance with a Visual Filter

• 1 Timothy: Church Order and Conduct

• 1 Timothy: Piety and Relationships

• Titus: Background and Occasion

• 2 Timothy: Background and Occasion

• 2 Timothy: Warning about Last Days

Conclusion

• Arguments Challenged

Details

• Title: NT225 Survey of the Pastoral Epistles

• Instructor: Kenneth L. Waters, Sr.

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 5