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Rediscovering Paul
Bernard Brandon Scott & Roy W. Hoover
The legacy of the apostle Paul dominates early Christianity--he is the reputed author of half of the New Testament and the dominant character in the book of Acts. He is often credited--or blamed--for many traditional moral positions still debated in our culture. But over the past twenty years, biblical scholarship has unveiled a new view of Paul, one that differs from the portraits of him painted by Augustine and Luther.
LECTURE
Will the Real Paul Please Stand Up?
Brandon Scott and Roy Hoover
We normally homogenize the various versions of Paul found in the New Testament. We will sort through these versions in an effort to discover the real Paul and to understand how the Pauline tradition developed. We will also note how The Authentic Letters of Paul (2010) returns us to the Paul his first readers knew.
Friday, 7:30–9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
Resurrection and the Body of Christ
Brandon Scott
Paul made resurrection and the cross central to his new faith. Even more importantly, he tied resurrection to the body of Christ. How do we unravel these notions to learn what Paul was trying to get at?
Saturday, 9:30–10:30 A.M.
Peter and Paul: Face-off in Antioch
Roy Hoover
When Peter visited the church in Antioch, Paul accused him of hypocrisy to his face at a congregational meeting. What was this confrontation about? What was at stake? What does this dramatic dispute tell us about how Peter and Paul understood the meaning of the gospel? Did Paul win or lose this argument?
Saturday, 11:00 A.M.–noon
Paul for a New Day
Brandon Scott and Roy Hoover
Paul is the first great Christian thinker. We will consider how Paul’s way of dealing with the religious situation of his day might be suggestive to us as we think about dealing with the religious situation of our day. Paul’s gospel involved a challenge to the structures of power in his world. How does the gospel relate to the structures of power in our world? How did Paul, and how might we, weigh the relative importance of religious tradition and our own religious understanding and insight?
Saturday, 1:30–2:30,3:00–4:00 P.M.
FACULTY
Bernard Brandon Scott (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at the Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK. He is the author of several books, including The Trouble with Resurrection (2010) and Re-Imagine the World (2002).
Roy W. Hoover (Th.D., Harvard University) is Weyerhaeuser Professor of Biblical Literature and Professor of Religion Emeritus, Whitman College. He is co-author of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (1993), editor of Profiles of Jesus (2003), and co-author of The Authentic Letters of Paul (2010).
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