LKH is pleased to welcome the Whitley Lecturer David Southall to the First Tuesday Programme.  These seminars are free and all are invited to attend.  7.30 start.

"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.