Syllabus
1. Introduction: A Pauline Theology of God's Saving Grace 2.
Paul's Experience of God's Saving Grace 2.1. Paul's Call and Conversion according to the Letters 2.2.
Paul's Call and Conversion according to Acts 2.3. Paul's Gospel and Apostleship 3.
Christ the Embodiment of God's Saving Grace 3.1. The Titles of the Proclaimed Christ 3.2.
The Preexistence of Christ 3.3. The Corporate Christ 4.
The Saving Grace of Jesus Christ 4.1. Paul's Experience of God's Saving Grace 4.2.
Humanity apart from Christ (texts and dominant themes) 4.3. Humanity in Christ (text and terminology) 5.
Waiting for the Final Appearance of God's Saving Grace 6. The God Revealed through the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ (texts and characteristics of God)
Annotation
The course tries to offer a synthesis of Paul’s theological thinking focusing on the main topics of Pauline letters. The method of the seminar involves both a reading and exegetical commentary of selected texts and a systematic research of relative theological and spiritual themes.