Post-Graduate Courses in Theology  

All Theology Courses are Taught at Codrington College But Not All are Necessarily Taught in any Given Academic Year.

• T60A    The Corinthian Correspondence

• T60B    Textual Criticism of the New Testament

• T60C    Graduate Seminar in Luke-Acts

• T60E    The Pastoral Letters

• T600    Old Testament

• T634    History of the Church in the West Indies, 1723 - 1870

• T635    Ministry and Mission in the Caribbean

• T636    Ecumenical Development in the West Indies to 1973
  

Course Descriptions

T60A: The Corinthian Correspondence  Modern and contemporary scholarship on 1 and 2 Corinthians reveals a variety of views on whether these New Testament letters are integral or whether, on the basis of an intentional editing process, there are 3 or more letters embedded within the canonical formof 1 and 2 Corinthians.  This seminar will examine the literary issues of integrity and authenticity and will deal with the historical problem of reconstructing the organized opposition to Paul, looking towards what sociological and anthropological analysis can offer us as we try to understand Pauline congregations. The seminar will utilize rhetorical criticism as the major means of dealing with the literary issues. Finally it will examine Pauline theology as it is found in the Corinthian correspondence.

T60E: The Pastoral Letters 

• I. The Identification of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus as "Pastoral Letters"

1. Before Schleiermacher
2. Schleiermacher and Afterwards

• The Central Problem: Authorship

1. Authorship of 1 Timothy and Titus
2. Recent Proposals of the Pauline Authorship of 2 Timothy
3. Pseudonymity

1. Pseudonymity as a Moral Problem
2. Pseudonymity in Biblical Traditions
3. Pseudonymity and Rhetoric

• Images of Paul: The Pastorals vs. the Acts of Paul and Thekla?
• Exegesis of Selected Passages in 1 Timothy and Titus
• Exegesis of 2 Timothy
• The Problem of the Development of Ecclesiastical Offices from the Authentic Letters of Paul to the Pastorals
• Conclusions