Pauline Justification

I am taking a PhD class on Pauline Justification this semester with Doug Moo. For those of you who are interested, here is our work load and class outline.

Part One: Background. We read hundreds of pages of statements about justification from Aquinas to Calvin to various confessions and discussed those viewpoints in class, culminating in the recent ecumenical statements about justification. Then we looked at righteousness in the OT and examined many of the contexts in which it is found. One of the primary questions for the OT data is to what degree righteousness  is connected with covenant. For this section we read a variety of essay, such as some from the two collections of essays in Justification and Variegated Nomism. We also read the entire book by Ziesler, The Meaning of Righteousness in Paul.

Part Two: New Perspective on Paul. Each of us in the class were assigned an author who has an interesting view of justification, including Peter Stuhlmacher, James Dunn, NT Wright, John Piper, Mark Seifrid, Richard Moore, and Kent Yinger. We then read everything that those authors wrote about justificaiton, wrote a 2000 word review article and presented it to the class. I read NT Wright, and my paper will be appearing here shortly.

Part Three: Exegetical Survey. We just go through the relevant passages in Greek, such as those in Galatians, Philippians, and Romans.

Part Four: Seminar Presentations. Each of us writes a research paper on some topic related to Pauline justification and present it to the class.  

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