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II.  Study/Homework Questions for Johnson Lectures:  Romans

 

1.         What is the purpose of the Jerusalem Collection (the money that Paul has collected to bring to the Jews in Jerusalem)?

 

 

 

2.         What are the two longest, sustained theological arguments in the NT?

 

 

3.         Some argue that Romans is an “occasional” letter. What do they mean by this? What was the occasion?

 

 

 

4.         On what Chapters in Romans did Luther focus? Why?

 

 

 

5.         On what Chapters in Romans did Calvin focus? Why?

 

 

 

6.         According to Johnson, what kind of rhetoric is Romans?

 

 

7.         What is Paul’s “thesis” and where is it found?

 

 

 

8.         What is the fundamental theological principle of Romans that Paul draws from the OT?

 

 

 

9.         What is faith and what is its opposite?

 

 

 

10.       What is it that enables us to live a life that is pleasing to God? How might a first century Jew

            have answered this question?