Paul's Life
Paul's birthplace.
What is Tarsus?
The label given to Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.
What are the Prison Epistles (or Captivity Letters)?
The title of the Jewish creed of monotheism (Deut 6:4) that affirms there is only one God.
What is the Shema?
Paul was falsely accused of this error: preaching a generous grace that rendered believers free from any moral obligations whatsoever.
What is antinomianism?
The part of a NT letter that exhorts readers to engage in appropriate Christian behavior, i.e., moral instruction.
What is parenesis?
Paul's term for the leading apostles of the Jerusalem church.
What is "the pillars"?
The label given to 1-2 Timothy and Titus.
What are the Pastoral Epistles?
The term Paul used for either a local church or for the universal church comprised of all believers.
What is ekklēsia?
The problem at Corinth was influenced either by Gnosticism, popular philosophy (such as Stoicism), or . . .
What is "over-realized eschatology"? [i.e., the idea that believers are already fully living in the age to come]
The oldest written form of a liturgy of the Lord's Supper, called "the words of institution," found in this letter of Paul's.
What is 1 Corinthians?
The leader of the Pharisees under whom Paul studied.
Who is Gamaliel?
A circular letter, it emphasizes the revelation of God's mystery in the unity of the church: the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles into one humanity in Christ.
What is Ephesians?
Paul's doctrine that, because of Christ's atoning death, sinners who believe in Christ receive pardon for sins and are accounted righteous before God.
What is justification (by faith)?
Jewish-Christian teachers in the churches of Galatia and Philippi who insisted that believers in Jesus must also be circumcised.
What are the Judaizers?
This standard section of Paul's letters has its longest form in 1 Thessalonians and is replaced by a rebuke/curse in Galatians.
What is the thanksgiving section?
The motive force behind Saul's persecution of the church before his conversion.
What is zeal for the law?
The letters of 1-2 Thessalonians may fall under this theological category.
What are the eschatological letters?
Paul uses the Greek words pneumatika and charismata for these?
What are spiritual gifts?
The name scholars have given to the false teachers who were affecting the church in Colossae.
What is "the Colossian heresy"?
The term for a confessional statement, the earliest of which is found in 1 Cor 15:3-8.
What is a creed?
According to an old tradition, where Paul was held under house arrest when he wrote the Prison/Captivity Letters.
What is Rome?
In this letter Paul writes about reconciliation, gives instructions about the collection for Jewish believers in Judea, and boasts about his sufferings to shame his opponents (the "super apostles").
What is 2 Corinthians?
According to this teaching of Paul, believers have died together with Christ, have been raised to new life, and therefore ought to reckon themselves dead to sin and alive to righteous obedience.
What is sanctification?
The sarcastic name in 2 Corinthians that Paul gives to his opponents.
What are the "super apostles"?
The literary form of the central text of Philippians, also called the Kenosis passage (Phil 2:6-11).
What is a hymn? or What is the "Christ Hymn"?