Paul and His Letter to the Romans: Part Two (Romans 6-11)

Name: Paul and His Letter to the Romans: Part Two (Romans 6-11)
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Prof. N.T. Wright walks students through the central portion of this profound Epistle written by the Apostle Paul.

Created byN.T. Wright, David P. Seemuth, Jennifer Loop

Last updated 4/2020

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What you'll learn

Embrace the beauty of this magnificent letter from the pen of the Apostle Paul.
Understand the historical background that is so important to discerning the meaning of this pivotal epistle.
Discern how the Apostle Paul brings forth an argument with majesty and complexity.
Explain the movement of the main themes in Paul's Letter to the Romans.
Dig deeply into the intricacies of specific sections within the letter.
Explicate how strands of key thought interweave through the text much as a symphony returns to movements that reinforce the underlying elements of the work.
Discuss how key theological ideas and thoughts are worked through by the Apostle Paul.

Course content

5 sections • 61 lectures • 7h 52m total length

Rom 6:1-11 KNT Text1:16
Introduction to the Course with Prof. N.T. Wright3:13
Join a section-by-section study of Paul and his letter to the Romans, part two, guided by Prof. N. T. Wright, exploring God, the four-movement structure, and mind renewal.
Rom 6:1-11 KNT1:44
Baptism into the Messiah means dying to sin and being raised to a new life. Live as dead to sin and alive to God, sharing in his death and resurrection.
Session One: Rom 6:1-11 with Prof. N.T. Wright14:52
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 6:1-11
Rom 6:12-23 KNT Text1:35
Rom 6:12-23 KNT2:16
Present yourselves to God as alive from the dead and offer your limbs to covenant justice, rejecting sin under grace to pursue holiness and life of the age to come.
Session Two: Rom 6:12-23 with Prof. N.T. Wright13:55
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 6:12-23

Rom 7:1-25 KNT4:14
Session Three: Rom 7:1-8:11 with Prof. N.T. Wright16:55
Explore Romans 7's paradoxes as Paul redefines the law, sin, and the Torah, tracing Israel's plight toward the gospel, cross, and the gift of the Spirit.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 7:1-8:11
Rom 7:1-6 KNT Text1:09
Session Four: Rom 7:1-6 with Prof. N.T. Wright9:45
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 7:1-6
Rom 7:7-25 KNT Text2:09
Session Five: Rom 7:7-25 with Prof. N.T. Wright18:32
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 7:7-25
Rom 8:1-11 KNT Text1:30
Rom 8:1-11 KNT2:08
Session Six: Rom 8:1-4 with Prof. N.T. Wright14:53
No condemnation rests on those in the Messiah Jesus. The lecture links justification by faith to Christ's death and resurrection, Spirit's gift, and the law of the spirit of life.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 8:1-4
Session Seven: Rom 8:5-11 with Prof. N.T. Wright20:32
Comprehension Assessment of Rom 8:5-11
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #20:38
Rom 8:12-25 KNT Text1:41
Rom 8:12-25 KNT2:24
Session Eight: Rom 8:12-17 with Prof. N.T. Wright13:21
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 8:12-17
Session Nine: Rom 8:18-25 with Prof. N.T. Wright14:48
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 8:18-25
Rom 8:26-39 KNT Text1:42
Rom 8:26-39 KNT2:25
Session Ten: Rom 8:26-30 with Prof. N.T. Wright18:22
Explore Romans 8's vision of the new creation, the Spirit's intercession amid creation's groaning, and the church as royal priests conformed to the Son, destined for glory.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 8:26-30
Session Eleven: Rom 8:31-39 with Prof. N.T. Wright16:23
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 8:31-36
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #30:38
Romans Part Two Q&A with Prof. N.T. Wright16:28
Delve into suffering and joy in Paul’s Romans narrative, the cross, the overlap of the present evil age and the age to come, and the spirit’s work toward new creation.

Introduction to Romans Chapters 9-11 with Prof. N.T. Wright18:38
Unpacks Romans 9–11 as a carefully structured meditation on Israel's vocation, tracing God's faithfulness through the Messiah for Jew and Gentile from lament to praise.
Rom 9:1-18 KNT Text1:54
Rom 9:1-18 KNT2:33
Paul speaks truth in the Messiah and laments for Israel, noting not all from Israel are Israel. He shows mercy depends on divine calling, not human effort.
Session Thirteen: Rom 9:1-5 with Prof. N.T. Wright12:11
Examine Paul's intense appeal in Romans 9:1-5, tracing Israel's place in God's covenants, the Messiah according to the flesh, and the fulfillment of his promises in the gospel.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 9:1-5
Session Fourteen: Rom 9:6-18 with Prof. N.T. Wright12:43
Paul argues God's word never fails, selecting Isaac over Ishmael and Jacob over Esau, to advance saving purposes through Abraham's line; God proclaims his name in all the earth.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 9:6-18
Rom 9:19-29 KNT Text1:19
Rom 9:19-29 KNT1:45
Session Fifteen: Rom 9:19-29 with Prof. N.T. Wright11:42
Paul reframes divine sovereignty in Romans 9:19-29 through the potter and clay image, showing God’s mercy and judgment, with a remnant from Jews and Gentiles fulfilling Abraham’s worldwide blessing.
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 9:19-29
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #40:38
Rom 9:30-10:13 KNT Text1:59
Rom 9:30-10:13 KNT2:43
Explore how covenant membership comes by faith, not works, with the Messiah as the goal of the law and the stumbling stone leading to salvation for all who believe.
Session Sixteen: Rom 9:30-10:4 with Prof. N.T. Wright16:42
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 9:30-10:4
Session Seventeen: Rom 10:5-13 with Prof. N.T. Wright14:38
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 10:5-13
Rom 10:14-21 KNT Text1:07
Rom 10:14-21 KNT1:30
Session Eighteen: Rom 10:14-21 with Prof. N.T. Wright10:14
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 10:14-21
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #50:38
Rom 11:1-24 KNT Text2:44
Rom 11:1-24 KNT4:00
Paul explains that God has not abandoned Israel and preserves a remnant by grace, not works. He uses the olive tree image to show gentile grafting and warns against unbelief.
Session Nineteen: Rom 11:1-10 with Prof. N.T. Wright17:36
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 11:1-10
Session Twenty: Rom 11:11-24 with Prof. N.T. Wright24:32
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 11:11-24
Rom 11:25-36 KNT Text1:17
Rom 11:25-36 KNT1:49
Explore Romans 11:25-36, tracing Israel's partial hardening and the fullness of the nations. Learn how mercy comes to all through God's gifts, call, and wisdom.
Session Twenty One: Rom 11:25-36 with Prof. N.T. Wright17:34
Comprehension Assessment on Rom 11:25-36
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #60:38
Romans Part Two Q&A with Prof. N.T. Wright15:38
Paul and his Romans part two reframes Romans 9–11, showing Israel’s destiny fulfilled in Jesus as Israel’s Messiah and the world’s Lord, with Gentiles joining God's promises.

Important Themes of the Letter: Overall Framework of the Letter20:03
Comprehension Assessment of the Overall Framework of the Letter
Important Themes of the Letter: The Royal and Priestly Message14:10
Comprehension Assessment of the Royal and Priestly Message of the Letter
Important Themes of the Letter: Righteousness of God16:28
Discover how the gospel reveals God’s righteousness for salvation to Jew and Greek, unveiling covenant faithfulness through Jesus and justification by faith for all.
Comprehension Assessment of the Righteousness of God
Processing Ideas and Probing Questions #70:38
Bonus Lecture0:24

Requirements

Students should obtain the commentary by Prof. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One (John Knox, 2005) ISBN-10: 0664227996.
Students should obtain the commentary by Prof. Wright, Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part Two (John Knox, 2005) ISBN-10: 0664229123.

Description

This course is Part Two of a three-part course covering the whole of Paul and His Letter to the Romans. This course, Romans: Part Two, is designed to take around fifteen weeks to complete and continues the study of the Epistle with an in depth exegesis of Romans 6:1-11:36. This section of the letter builds on and develops previous elements outlined in Part One, and emphasizes that Romans as a whole is a letter about God.

In this section you will explore questions such as:

If God loves us so much and freely extends his grace, then why not live like we want? Why not continue in sin that his grace may abound?
Is Romans 7 really giving a picture of the struggle of the Christian life?
What argument is Paul making and how does he support the idea that there is 'no condemnation' for those in the Messiah Jesus?
How does the dense and often difficult section of Romans 9-11 emerge from what Paul has been talking about in Romans 1-8? What can we say about the promises God made to his people long ago who do not seem to have noticed?

The textbook is Prof. Wright's commentary on Romans in the Paul for Everyone series published by John Knox Press in the U.S. and SPCK in the UK.

The structure of the course includes:

Lectures by Prof. Wright
Quizzes to assess comprehension
Student discussions
Interaction with Prof. David Seemuth, your co-instructor for the course
Textbook readings
Interaction with the biblical text itself

If you are interested in exploring these and other questions from this powerful and important letter, then we encourage you to enroll in this course.

Who this course is for:

Any student of the Bible should be interested in this most powerful letter of the New Testament. Paul and His Letter to the Romans provides the basis for so much theology upon which Christians stand that this letter must be studied in depth.
While this course will contain some rather elaborate explanations, the beginning student interested in the New Testament will still be able to understand much of what Prof. Wright explains.

Paul and His Letter to the Romans: Part Two (Romans 6-11)

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Course content

Romans Part Two: Chapters Six through Eight7 lectures • 39min

Processing the Material from Prof. Wright through Q&A2 lectures • 2min

Romans Part Two: Chapters Six through Eight (cont.)21 lectures • 3hr 1min

Romans: Part Two: Chapters Nine through Eleven26 lectures • 3hr 19min

Romans: Part Two: Important Themes of the Letter5 lectures • 52min

Requirements

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