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The First Tuesday seminars offer all a chance to listen to a varied range of speakers on topics of interest in the field theology.
All are welcome to these free events held at Luther King House. First Tuesdays are held on the first Tuesday of each month during the academic year starting at 7.30 prompt.
Tea or coffee, or an evening meal, are available for purchase prior to the start of the session.
First Tuesdays are a series of free lectures offered by Luther King House on the first Tuesday of each month of the academic year. Admission is free for the session and all are invited to join this lively and stimulating group.
Sessions start at 7.30 p.m. prompt but the venue is open for tea and coffee or even a reasonably priced early evening meal before the start of the programme.
Come along and bring friends with you.
2nd March 2010 - 7.30 - 9.30 p.m.
Rev Dr David Southall
"The Poetic Paul: On Creating New Realities for Righteousness in Romans"
Why does the Apostle Paul personify righteousness and sin in Romans 6? Whydoes the character "Righteousness" act out its role as a slave master in opposition to "Slave Master Sin?" In this seminar David J. Southall explores Pauline personification and makes the case that the Apostle uses the poetic ways of speaking as modes of character invention and then goes on to show that personified "Righteousness", becomes Paul's way of talking about Christ in passages which are rich in metaphor and the story of Christ.
Southall gives an exegesis of Romans 6:15-23 which affirms this view and looks at the implications of his position for aspects of Pauline theology including "the justification debate" and universalism.
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