Biblical eLearning (http://biblicalelearning.org) presents: Dr. Craig Keener on Romans
This is the fourth of 18 lectures Dr. Craig Keener of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky has done on the book of Romans.
Be sure to check out his commentary: Romans: A New Covenant Commentary published by Wipf and Stock. This video was produced by Ted Hildebrandt from biblicalelearning.org.
Timed Outline:
00:00 Inexcusable idolatry (1.18-2.3)
2:15 What truth do they unrighteously suppress?
3:00 Position in larger argument of Romans
6:00 Wrath from heaven (1.18)
7:15 God's righteousness/their unrighteousness
7:30 Saving Faith (1:16-17) thus involves truth
10:00 Knowledge yield accountability
11:15 Revelation in Nature
11:50 Gentile intellectuals could have appreciated Paul's argument
13:15 E.g., Epictetus
14:40 Today: monotheism isn't one God or less
16:00 Knowledge handled negligently
17:25 Sexual sin (1.24-27)
18:10 Deceptive Sex
19:15 Distorting God's image in themselves
21:00 Idolatry Immorality
23:20 Greek influence even in Rome
25:50 Sexual outlets with males among Greeks
30:45 Pederasty (boys and early adolescents)
32:10 Propriety and pederasty
33:50 Gentile criticism of homosexual behavior
34:45 Usual cultural acceptance of homosexual behavior
36:35 Jewish rejection of homosexual behavior
38:45 Culture and Paul's view
39:45 Some use culture to limit Paul's argument here but:
41:15 Interpreting Paul
43:05 Don't exaggerate Paul's point
47:30 Romans 1.22
47:50 The Madness of Sin its own Punishment
51:30 Ultimately: Unfit minds (1.28)
52:40 Various Vices (1.28-32)
53:55 Vice list
55:15 Function of vice list