{"id":73,"date":"2019-05-19T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T19:26:01","slug":"rels-3116-paul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/rels-3116-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"RELS-3116 Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Course Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more\nthan Jesus, Paul is the most misunderstood figure in the New Testament and\nperhaps in all of early Christianity. Why? Primarily because Paul was so\ncontroversial. Controversy breeds suspicion and misrepresentation, ardor and\nhostility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncontroversies over Paul began in his own day, with his own preaching. Some\nreacted favorably but others negatively, even provoking a few to attempt (at\nleast twice) to assassinate the self-styled \u201capostle to the Gentiles.\u201d\nRegardless of whether his teachings were properly understood or misrepresented,\nPaul made enemies. In the process, he also convinced many non-Jews to put their\nfaith in the God of Israel. Paul left a lasting legacy that has, unfortunately,\nbeen co-opted and distorted by later theologians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a variety\nof reasons, the \u201cChristian\u201d Paul has come to be divorced from his cultural\ncontext. Rather than appreciating him as a Diaspora Jew of the first century\nwith a remarkable message for Gentiles, many see Paul as a repudiator of his\nnative Judaism and the intentional founder of a new and better religion called\nChristianity. As we will come to see in this survey class, nothing could be\nfarther from the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course\nwill take advantage of recent and major developments in the study of the\nhistorical Paul. We will come to appreciate Paul as a Jew who never abandoned\nhis Judaism even in the wake of accepting his new commission as apostle. We\nwill learn to read Paul\u2019s letters as communiques with his non-Jewish converts,\nexplaining to them how he believed God had created a means by which they might\natone for their sins outside the provisions of Torah. Aided by a better\nunderstanding of first-century Judaism and of the social and rhetorical\nconventions of Greco-Roman letter writing, we will get the clearest picture\npossible of this misunderstood Jew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Summary: Even more than Jesus, Paul is the most misunderstood figure in the New Testament and perhaps in all of early Christianity. Why? Primarily because Paul was so controversial. Controversy breeds suspicion and misrepresentation, ardor and hostility. The controversies over Paul began in his own day, with his own preaching. Some reacted favorably but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2499,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dclause2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}