NT341 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
Overview
Dr. Douglas Moo, known for his commentaries on Romans and Galatians, lays out his research on this much-debated text. He explores the theme of justification by faith and explains its importance to the Protestant Reformation and the Protestant church today. He discusses the new perspective on Paul and how it relates to Galatians. You’ll also learn important contextual information about who the Galatians were, why Paul wrote to them, and how they might have understood Paul’s letter. Dr. Moo guides you through the text, explaining the major themes and theological elements toward the goal of understanding how Paul’s letter to the Galatians applies to our lives and to the church.
Top Highlights
“‘It is a response to a challenge from Christian Jewish missionaries who had come to Galatia to improve or correct Paul’s gospel and to ‘complete’ his converts by integrating them fully into the heirs of Abraham, through circumcision, and by thus bringing them under the law.’” (source)
“The fact that Paul never refers to that decision suggests that perhaps Galatians must have been written before the Council ever met, in about 49.” (source)
“Galatia could refer to a people who were ethnically Galatian or to a people who lived in a Roman province called Galatia.” (source)
“Paul launches, in verses 6 and following, immediately into a rebuke of the Galatians for their foolishness in listening to the agitators.” (source)
“The second stage of the argument is the heart of the letter—the theological argument about justification before God.” (source)
- Title: NT341 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
- Author: Douglas J. Moo
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Galatians › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Galatians › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. N.T. Galatians--Commentaries; Education › Bible. N.T. Galatians--Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:NT341MOO
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:50:28Z
Dr. Douglas J. Moo, professor of New Testament, teaches at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. For over twenty years, his ministry was based at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. His academic interests revolve around the interface of exegesis and theology.
Dr. Moo seeks to model to students a rigorous approach to the Greek text that always asks the “so what” questions of ultimate significance and application. The Pauline and General Letters have been his special focus within the NT canon. In the next few years, he will be writing commentaries on Galatians and Hebrews, a Pauline theology, and a theological and practical book on creation care.
He has also been active in his local church, serving as elder most years, teaching and preaching to the church, and conducting home Bible studies. Also very rewarding has been his service on the Committee on Bible Translation, the group of scholars charged with revising the text of the NIV and with producing the TNIV.
He and his wife, Jenny, have five grown children.