Mobile Ed: NT225 Survey of the Pastoral Epistles (5 hour course - audio)
Overview
Explore the content and major themes of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus with New Testament Professor Kenneth Waters Sr. You’ll examine the doctrine of salvation, learn the difference between “imminent” and “immanent” eschatology, gain background information on Timothy and Titus, and see the bigger picture of where and how these letters fit in with the rest of Paul’s journeys and our own spiritual formation.
Dr. Waters also looks at the controversies that surround the interpretation of these texts. You’ll gain new insight into Paul’s remarks about slavery and the roles of women in the church.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Authorship
- Arguments for Paul
- Arguments against Paul
- Implications
Unit 2: Seven Themes
- 1. Sound Doctrine
- Reverse Interlinears, Inline Search, and First Class Conditionals
- Sound Doctrine: Subthemes 1–6
- Sound Doctrine: Subthemes 7–8
- Conclusions about Proto-Gnosticism
- 2. Salvation: Already/Not Yet
- Using Inline Search and Louw-Nida Numbers
- Salvation Subthemes
- Salvation through Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:15): Four Options
- Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:12–15): An Allegory
- Using Commentaries with Ancient Literature for Exegesis
- Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:12–15): Ephesian Culture
- Salvation as Present and Future: Summary
- 3. Salvation in Our Conduct and Relationships
- Salvation in Relationships: In the Household
- Excursus: Slavery in the Transformed Haustafeln
- 4. Salvation Is Trinitarian
- Using Propositional Outlines to Study Chiasms
- Excursus: Election versus Predestination
- 5. God and Christ
- Excursus: God and Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13)
- 6. Christ Will Return
- 7. Household of God
- Using BDAG to Search for Multiple Words Simultaneously
- Paterfamilias
- Excursus: Priscilla and Women in the Church
Unit 3: Ethics and Eschatology: A Comparative Discussion
- Holy Spirit or Sound Doctrine as Agent of Transformation
- Sound Doctrine and the Spirit of Christ
- Purity and Justification
- Salvation, Works, and Eschatology
- Kingdom of God: Immanent in Luke-Acts
- Kingdom of God: Imminent in Pastoral Epistles
Unit 4: Paul’s Journeys and Correspondence
- First Missionary Journey
- The Jerusalem Council
- Jewish Roots of the Jerusalem Compromise
- Second Missionary Journey
- Third Missionary Journey
- Journey to Rome
- Coupling the Interactive Atlas with Louw-Nida Place Numbers and Media Browser
- Paul’s Correspondence
- Concluding Years of Paul’s Ministry
- Paul in Ephesus (Part 1)
- Paul in Ephesus (Part 2)
- Enhancing Factbook with Media Browser and Biblical Event Navigator
Unit 5: Timothy and Titus
- Timothy’s Background
- Timothy’s Parents
- Timothy: Paul’s Helper
- Timothy: Paul’s Ambassador and Companion
- Timothy: Bishop and Prisoner
- Titus and Crete
- Titius Justus
- Titus: Paul’s Companion and Ambassador
- Paradigms for Paul
Unit 6: Epistles as Occasional Correspondence
- 1 Timothy: Background and Purpose
- Construct a Commentary Concordance with a Visual Filter
- 1 Timothy: Church Order and Conduct
- 1 Timothy: Piety and Relationships
- Titus: Background and Occasion
- 2 Timothy: Background and Occasion
- 2 Timothy: Warning about Last Days
Conclusion
- Arguments Challenged
Product Details
- Title: NT225 Survey of the Pastoral Epistles (audio)
- Instructor: Kenneth L. Waters, Sr.
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2015
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: audio
- Length: 5 hours
Partially included
Dr. Kenneth Waters, Sr., PhD, is professor of New Testament and associate dean of the division of religion and philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. He specializes in gospel studies, the Pauline Epistles, apocalyptic literature, biblical ethics, New Testament and early Christian literature, and African American religious history. In addition to being an active overseas missionary, he’s also served as a senior pastor for over 28 years.
He’s authored several books, including Afrocentric Sermons: The Beauty of Blackness in the Bible (Judson Press, 1993) and I Saw the Lord: A Pilgrimage through Isaiah 6 (Upper Room Books, 1996). He’s also written numerous articles and essays that have appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature, the Expository Times, the Lexington Theological Journal, and more. He’s a program chair of the New Testament Epistles and Apocalypse section of the Pacific Coast Region Society of Biblical Literature.
Dr. Waters is a contributing scholar to The Voice Bible project of the Ecclesia Bible Society and Thomas Nelson publishers. He’s been a featured presenter on The History Channel and It is Written Oceania TV broadcasts.
His wife, Deborah, is an elementary-school teacher in the San Bernardino School District and associate minister at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.