[Monday Class]

Mondays, January 28, February 4 and 11
7:30 pm

Reggie Kidd

Instructor: Reggie Kidd, Professor of New Testament, Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando, FL)

The so-called Pastoral Epistles (1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus) raise acute questions about the legacy of the Apostle Paul. Some scholars consider these letters to be Paul’s own applications of his thinking about practical church matters so that leaders of his churches in the next generation will know how to carry on his ministry. Other scholars consider these letters to represent a second generation falling away from Paul’s original dynamic vision of “new creation” in Christ.

After surveying these options, this class will propose a reading of the Pastoral Epistles as Paul’s own creative contextualization of his prime theological values in terms that reflect the chief religious and ethical aspirations of the world in which the apostle’s heirs will have to minister when he is gone.

Professor Reggie Kidd is Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando where his main area of teaching and research is in the Pauline epistles. After completing his PhD from Duke University, his dissertation was published by Scholars Press under the title, Wealth and Beneficence in the Pastoral Epistles: A Bourgeois Form of Early Christianity? Prof. Kidd is a member of the Disputed Paulines group for the Society of Biblical Literature. He contributed the notes on Ephesians and Colossians to The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible and The Reformation Study Bible.

Audio from this series:

 
icon for podpress  How Pauline Are the Pastoral Epistles? pt 1 [72:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  How Pauline Are the Pastoral Epistles? pt 2 [69:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  How Pauline Are the Pastoral Epistles? pt 3 [72:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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