Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Compare the traditional view on justification to the new perspective

• Communicate important themes found within the text of Galatians

• Relate the identity of the Galatian church to the lives of modern believers

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Introduction and Background

• Who Were the Galatians? Part 1

• Searching for Place Information

• Who Were the Galatians? Part 2

• Why Did Paul Write the Letter?

• The Argument of the Letter

• The Tone of the Letter

• Opening Multiple Passages in Separate Tabs

Unit 2: The Autobiographical Argument

• An Overview of the Argument

• The Road to Damascus

• Paul’s Early Years as a Christian

• Paul’s Jerusalem Consultation

• Conflict in Antioch

• Finding a Book in the Pseudepigrapha

• Justification by Faith

• Works of the Law

• Using the NEAR Search Operator

• “The Faith of Jesus Christ”

• Examining a Grammatical Construction Using the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament

• The New Perspective and Galatians

• “Righteousness” Language

Unit 3: The Theological Argument

• The Central Argument

• The Initial Appeal

• The Heart of Paul’s Argument

• Abraham and Faith

• The Law and the Curse

• Habakkuk 2:4 in the New Testament

• The Law and Salvation History

• The Law and Transgressions

• Studying Greek Synonyms with the Bible Sense and Louw-Nida Lexicons

• The Law and a Mediator

• The Law as Paidagōgos

• Union with Christ

• The Stoichea of the World

• Christ Formed in You

• The Story of Hagar and Sarah

• Looking Up Greek Words in a Greek-English Lexicon

• The Old and New Realms

• Justification

• Final Justification and Works

• A “Janus” Text

Unit 4: The Ethical Argument

• Living to Please God

• Freedom, Love, and the Law

• The Spirit and the Flesh

• The Law of Christ

• An Eschatological Warning

Unit 5: The Ending of the Epistle

• A Fitting Ending

• The New Creation

• The Israel of God

Details

• Title: NT341 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

• Instructor: Douglas J. Moo

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

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

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 4