846: The Gospel as Political Protest and Why Rom 7 Isn’t Talking About Christians

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We discuss three issues in this podcast: (1) Imperial critical readings of the New Testament (i.e. how the NT critiques the Roman empire in its language), (2) the benefit of studying first-century philosophy for understanding the New Testament, and (3) why Romans 7:9-25 is not talking about a Christian or Christians.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I am here with my very good
0:05.3	best friend, Dr. Joey Dodson. Joey and I go way back. We talk about our history together in the show.
0:12.2	But Joey is been a professor for a number of years and he's currently a professor of New Testament
0:17.8	at Denver Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books and he's also edited several
0:25.6	books. All of them are very academic in nature. Joey is a youth pastor in scholarly clothes or maybe
0:34.7	he's a scholar in youth pastor clothes. He's just a down to earth dude. As you will see, he kind of
0:39.6	like breaks out in song and dance halfway through his sentences and he's very, he's just an amazing
0:46.4	teacher. He's been a great friend of mine. But in this episode, I wanted to have him on to talk
0:51.8	about various things related to some of his expertise in the New Testament. So we talk about
0:58.8	imperial critical readings of the New Testament, how the New Testament and the message of the New
1:05.0	Testament is sometimes a sort of protest against the empire. We also talk about why understanding
1:13.6	first century philosophy has helped him understand Paul and Paul in particular, but the New Testament
1:19.8	as a whole. And we also talk about, okay, this might be offensive, but why Roman seven is
1:25.6	absolutely not talking about the life of a believer there. I said it. Okay. So if you want to
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1:36.8	of the theology in the raw Patreon only community. If you miss our Q the Q and A episodes that I
1:43.3	used to do on the show, I'm still doing those once a month. I record two different Patreon only
1:49.2	podcasts that are all just Q and A, where I respond to questions from my Patreon supporters. So
1:55.6	again, if you want to support the show, would really appreciate it. All right, let's get to know,
1:59.8	again, the one and only Dr. Joey Dodson.
2:20.1	All right, friends, I'm here with my best friend Joey Dodson. He's been on before and I'm
2:28.0	not going to give too much background on Joey, but yeah, we go back to our Aberdeen days when
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