A. Course Description
A selected study of the book of Romans primarily in the NRSV text (MTS and PhD students consult the Greek text), focusing on a cross-cultural reading, understood differently as Scriptural criticism, intertextual reading, postcolonial criticism, and from other literary and theological perspectives in the intersection between theology and politics.
Attention will be given not only to the history of scholarly discussion of Romans [“knowing”], but also to the practice of its hermeneutical meanings for diverse political cultures then and now [“doing”], as one seeks to be a competent and faithful interpreter of the biblical text in a world of profound diversity [“being”].
B. Course Objectives
1. To have a graduate-level knowledge of current literature on the Apostle Paul and the political worlds, both then and now [if one has done the reading of assigned textbooks, attended classes, completed all the assignments];
2. To have a deeper understanding and appreciation of one Romans pericope in relation to the political life of early Christian movement, and a critical and creative appropriation of Paul’s theology in Romans in our modern world [evident by a successful writing of a term paper];
3. To begin showing a holistic growth (knowledge and love, individual and communal) of personal and social selves in biblical reception and hermeneutic [as demonstrated in the hermeneutical section of the term paper].
- Teacher: K K Yeo