Galatians Seminary Course with Douglas Moo

Paul presents his autobiographical argument, asserting the gospel came by revelation from Jesus Christ, not from any human source, and contrasts this with his relations to Jerusalem and Peter.

Explore how Paul's Damascus road experience reveals a radical turn from a Torah-centered faith to a Christ-centered gospel, reshaping his view of Jews and Gentiles.

Traces Paul’s post-conversion movements, aligning Galatians with Acts, noting a likely 33 conversion, Arabia, Damascus, Jerusalem by 35, and ten years in Syria and solicitor, with gospel learned by revelation.

Paul recounts a private meeting with Jerusalem pillars where they affirm the gospel to the gentiles by faith, divide spheres of ministry, and agree to remember the poor.

Paul confronts a conflict in Antioch with James's followers and Peter over Jews eating with gentiles, signaling gospel unity amid friction; Paul and Peter ultimately agree.

Explore Paul's continuation of the Peter at Antioch dialogue in Galatians 2:15–21 and the central idea that justification comes by faith in Christ, not by works of the law.

Examine how works of the law contrast with faith in Paul’s Galatians, focusing on the Torah and the shift from the old era to faith in Christ.

Paul contrasts works of the law with Jesus Christ faith and explains that justification in Galatians 2:16 comes through faith in Jesus Christ, not works.

Explore the new perspective on Paul and Judaism in Galatians, focusing on whether the works of the law accompany faith. Compare justification by faith alone with faith plus works.

Galatians language links justify, righteousness, and related terms to a forensic sense of being declared right before God, while union with Christ anchors both justification and participation.

Explore Paul's central theological argument in Galatians, showing that in Christ and through faith we are children of Abraham, not through law or circumcision, and that Gentiles belong to God.

Expose Paul’s argument for a law-free gospel and Christ’s crucifixion. Show that Galatians 3 frames justified by faith as finishing by faith, not by works of the law.

In Galatians, Paul argues that faith makes Gentiles and Jews Abraham's descendants, using inclusive and discontinuous themes, and shows the law is obsolete for Gentiles since Christ.

Explore how Paul frames Abraham's faith and the promise that all nations are blessed through him, including Gentiles, in light of the Old Testament and the coming of Christ.

Paul contrasts faith and the law, showing the law cannot secure salvation, while Christ bears the curse on the cross and enables blessing through Abraham.

Paul reinterprets Habakkuk 2:4 in Galatians and Romans, showing the righteous live by faith, not by the works of the law, with Greek and Hebrew texts.

Explore how Paul reframes salvation history in Galatians by balancing the promise to Abraham with the law, addressing agitators and showing the law served until faith in Christ came.

Explores why the law was given because of transgressions, showing how it defines sin, exposes human sinfulness, and reveals humanity's need for a redeemer in salvation history.

Examine Paul’s argument in Galatians about the law’s delivery through angels and a mediator, contrasting it with the Abrahamic promise and God’s direct involvement.

Clarify the law's limited duration as paedagogos guarding Israel until Christ came, and its purpose to bring us to Christ for justification by faith.

Explore union with Christ as the basis for becoming Abraham's descendants through faith, and how baptism into Christ and clothing ourselves with Christ unite all believers, erasing cultural barriers.

Paul shows that in Christ both Gentiles and Jews become children of God and heirs, not enslaved to the law or to elemental spiritual forces.

Paul urges the Galatians not to return to the law of Moses, warning it would undo salvation and his gospel, and he longs for Christ formed in you.

Paul reinterprets Hagar and Sarah to contrast slavery under the law with freedom in Christ for the Gentiles, linking the old covenant to Mount Sinai and the new Jerusalem above.

Contrast the old realm under Torah with the new realm of grace, faith, and the spirit, warning gentiles against circumcision and urging steadfastness in Christ.

Explore how Paul’s doctrine of justification relates to final judgment, highlighting faith alone as the basis while works reflect the Spirit and human responsibility.

Explore the Janus text in Galatians 5:5–6, where Paul links faith, righteousness, and the Spirit, showing that circumcision counts for nothing and faith works through love.

Explore how Paul links living to please God with the Torah's aims, fulfilled by loving one another and being led by the spirit in a communal Christian life.

Explore Paul's idea that freedom from the law enables a turning toward God and others. See how the love command fulfills the law, not replacing all commands.

Walk by the Spirit and resist the flesh as Paul contrasts divine and human powers, promising the fruit of the Spirit for those led by God's Spirit.

Explore how bearing one another's burdens, guided by the spirit, fulfills the law of Christ by living in community and loving one another under Christ's law in the new covenant.

Explore Paul's eschatological warning urging believers to live by the Spirit, not the flesh, and examine how salvation-security debates shape interpretation.

Paul signs the Galatians letter with large letters, rebukes the agitators, and reaffirms the cross, the new creation, and the Israel of God in a fitting ending.

The lecture analyzes Paul's 'new creation' motif, showing how in Christ circumcision no longer divides Jew and Gentile, and how faith expresses itself through love.

Paul emphasizes the new creation and the Israel of God, uniting Jew and gentile in Christ. Gentile Christians who follow this rule join Israel, sharing the new life of God.