RELGST 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: First Epistle To The Thessalonians, Status Quo, Ancient Greek Philosophy

• School: Pitt
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELGST 1120
• Professor: Denova Rebecca

Document Summary

Galatians (province in central turkey) paul and the law. The rest were deutero-pauline: written by disciples pretending to be paul. Jew of the diaspora believed to be in damascus. Never a christian; just teaches that jesus fulfills the apocalyptic standards of judaism. Creates the atonement of the death of jesus. Absorbed greco-roman culture educated in greek philosophy. Ekklesia: assembly of people (church) met in secret at first because rome did not license them. Persecuted the people of ekklesia to the utmost however persecuted has several meanings. 32 ce: call of paul (vision) jesus told him to become a missionary among the gentiles; commissioned not by the church but by jesus. Christian magna carta freedom from the law of moses (no longer slaves under the law, slaves under. Only letter where paul describes what happened to him background information. Righteous/justified by faith and not by works of the law .