RS 236Paul: Life and Letters
- Units
- 0.50
- Faculty
- Arts
- Subject
- Religious Studies
- Cross-listed
- JS 236
Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2024–25.
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 1 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. 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.
Reviewed on UW Flow
90% liked it67% easy58% useful
From 10 ratings and 2 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
The course was fine but Amanda didn't engage with the class and just used recorded lecture videos from the previous professor. It seemed like she didn't really care that much and her making scheme was all over the place. She once marked one of my discussion posts completely wrong, turns out she 'made a mistake' and remarked it which was good. The class itself isn't boring or too hard and If your really want to learn more about Paul it's worth it.
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This class was ok. I went to a catholic high school so we had to take Judaism at one point which I loved so I was really excited about the class. They did a lot of discussion posts to get you to give your perspective and engage with classmates which was really helpful for someone who isn't very big into religion in the first place or the bible. The larger assignments kind of sucked though. The "midterm" assignment we had to do a book report on a book about St. Paul, which was fine and I followed all instructions, but did bad and was told I talked about the book too much (?). The final assignment which was worth 30% you had to write a 6-8 page letter pretending you were Paul and address…
Aug 2022 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention RS 236, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2018
Has anyone taken RS 236 - Paul: Life and Letters (Online)? 5 points, 0 comments
u/OG_PANDA_KING: “Hi, has anyone taken RS 236 - Paul: Life and Letters (Online)? Reading some reviews on ratemyprof and uwflow, it seems like there are lots of readings (primarily from the bible). Is this true, and overall, is this a bird course?”
Fall 2017
Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments
“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”
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