| CODE | SHG2760 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Pauline Writings and Acts of the Apostles | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will have two parts: Pauline Writings, and Acts of the Apostles. Part One: Paul's contribution to the living and spreading of the Christian message within the emerging church and beyond will be analyzed in the light of his conversion/call/commission event on the Road to Damascus. Consequently, an analysis of how the 'Christ Event' and his Gospel were assimilated by the apostle Paul in his life and proclaimed in his preaching and letters. Pauline Theology according to the letters and hermeneutics of Paul's main theological contributions in a synchronic overview will finally be given. Part Two: The figure of Peter will be analyzed as the protagonist of the first half of Acts and the link between the Gospel tradition and Acts. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims at presenting the figure of Paul as a major contributor to the living and spreading of the Christian message within the emerging church and beyond. It also aims to analyze the figure of Peter as the protagonist of the first half of Acts and the link between the Gospel tradition and Acts of the Apostles. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify a working chronology for studying Paul; - identify and illustrate how Paul's Damascus Event was the turning point that influenced his whole life and theology; - summarize Paul's contribution to Christianity in founding, evangelizing and nurturing Christian communities, who in turn became evangelizers themselves; - trace the main contours of Paul's theology as a Theology of the Cross; - outline Peter's figure in the Acts of the Apostles as the link between the Gospel tradition and subsequent theological reflection by the nascent Church. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - adapt and construct a working chronology for any study of Paul's life and letters; - assess Paul's Damascus Event as a commission to evangelize Gentiles that had deep consequences upon Paul's life and his theological contribution to Christianity; - evaluate Paul's letters in a holistic approach and synthesize their contents as a Theology of the Cross that is a matrix for all branches of theological thought; - construct the main lines of the depiction by the author Luke of Peter in Acts of the Apostles that symbolizes the link between the Gospel tradition and subsequent life of the Church. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: MAIN TEXT BROWN Raymond E., An Introduction to the New Testament (= ABRL), New York: Doubleday 1997. PAULINE WRITINGS - BIRD Michael F - WILLITTS Joel (eds), Paul and the Gospels. Christologies, Conflicts and Convergences (= Library of New Testament Studies), London - New York: T&T Clark 2011. - DUNN James D.G., The Theology of Paul the Apostle, London - New York: T&T Clark 1998. - FEE Gordon D., Pauline Christology. An Exegetical-Theological Study, Peabdoy/MA: Hendrickson 2007. - HOOKER Moorna D., Paul. An introduction, Oxford: OneWorld 2003. - WILES Virginia, Making Sense of Paul. A Basic Introduction to Pauline Theology, Peabody/MA: Hendrickson 2000. - Aletti, Jean-Noel, New Approaches for Interpreting the Letters of Saint Paul. Collected Essays: Rhetoric, Soteriology, Christology and Ecclesiology (SubBi 43; Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2012). - Mcray, John., Paul. His Life and Teaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2003). - Stirewalt, M. Luther, Paul, the Letter Writer (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003). ACTS OF THE APOSTLES - FITZMYER Joseph A., Acts of the Apostles (= Anchor Bible), New York: Doubleday 1998. - JOHNSON Luke T., The Acts of the Apostles (= Sacra Pagina 8), Collegeville/MN: Michael Glazier 1992. - Bock, Darrell L., Acts (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament; Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007). - Nguyen, van Than, “Acts,” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, Third Fully Revised Edition, edited by John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, and Donald Senior (London: T&T Clark, 2022), 1445-1527. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: THL1001 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paul Sciberras |
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