Paul: The Person, the Passion, the Preaching

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The letters of Paul make up over a quarter of the New Testament and so get a lot of air time in the “Epistle” readings during liturgical services. They also play an outsized role in Christian theology after the various reformation movements in Europe. But there is another story behind these writings that makes them especially relevant for Indigenous readers. Paul’s letters and the teachings within them are written when he and other “Followers of the Way” were sorting out what it meant to take the good news about Jesus across a cultural divide. This course will study Paul and his teachings by situating him in his time and the challenges he faces as he takes his ancestral story and his transformative experience of Jesus and works out his conviction that a crucified Creator is relevant not just to his people, but to all people. The ultimate goal of the course is to explore how Paul and his writings can be used as a resource to those in communities that understand that working out your faith is working out your identity.

Course will be taught in person at VST and via Zoom for distance students (degree students must connect synchronously if studying via Zoom).

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