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RCS 236Paul: Life and Letters

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
Religion, Culture, and Spirituality
Cross-listed
JS 236

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

The career and thought of the apostle Paul, at once a Jew, a Graeco-Roman, and a Christ believer, living within the Roman Empire. Attention is given to issues such as spirit, Jewish Law, grace, freedom and slavery, Christ, church, politics, gender, and sexuality.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 08178440 / 35Online or by arrangement
LEC 701806414 / 9999Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

67% liked it50% easy67% useful

From 3 ratings and 3 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • fully online but NOT A BIRD COURSE

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  • I really enjoyed this course, though it was a fair amount of work. I am not a Christian, so my knowledge was quite scant going in. I applied myself to the weekly lectures and readings, and found that I finished the course with a much more thorough understanding of Paul, and therefore the Bible as a whole, since Paul wrote over 50% of the New Testament.
    The course is fully online. Each week has a single lecture topic (usually centred around one or two of Paul's letters) which avg about an hour of audio total. There are readings every week, most of which are to read the Bible. There are five discussion modules and five quizzes, all spread throughout the term. Discussions require one main…

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  • Course isn't super easy compared to clas104/202 but easy enough to get 80+ on it.

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