Romans Through History and Cultures

Session 1

Reformation Readings of Romans: From Erasmus to Bullinger

Chair: Khiok-Kng Yeo, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

 

Presenters

 

Laurel Carrington, St.Olaf College

Erasmus’s Readings of Romans 3, 4, and 5 as Rhetoric and Theology (20 Min.)

 

Edwin Tait, Asbury Theological Seminary

Pedagogue of the Groaning Creation: The Law in Martin Bucer’s 1536 Romans Commentary (20 Min.)

 

Peter Opitz, University of Zurich

Bullinger’s Reading of Romans, (20 Min.)

 

Respondents

 

Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, (20 Min.)

 

Troy Martin, St.Xavier University, (20 Min.)  

 

William S.Campbell, University of Wales Lampeter, (20 Min.)

 

Discussion (30 Min.)

 

Papers will be summarized not read in their entirety. They will be available on the web

by the 1. October 2006 at www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/SBL2006/home2006.htm

 

 

Romans Through History and Cultures

Session 2

Reformation Readings of Romans: Luther, Calvin and their Influence

Chair: R.Ward Holder, St. Anselm College

 

Presenters

 

Deanna A. Thompson, Hamline University

Letting the Word Run Free: Luther's Lectures on Romans and Popular Reception  (20 Min.)

 

Gary Hansen, University of Dubuque Seminary

Door and Passageway: Calvin's use of Romans as Hermeneutical and
Theological Guide  (20 Min.)

 

G.Sujin Pak, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Romans 5 and 13 as Lenses into the Similarities and Differences of Melanchthon, Calvin and Luther’s Romans Commentaries, (20 Min.)

 

Respondents

 

David Whitford, United Theological Seminary, 20 Min.)

 

Kurt A.Richardson, McMaster University, (20 Min.)

 

Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Wales Lampeter, (20 Min.)

 

Discussion (30 Min.)

 

Papers will be summarized not read in their entirety. They will be available on the web

by the 1. October 2006 at www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/SBL2006/home2006.htm