Paul's Theology (ft. Richard Gaffin)

you Welcome to the Faculty Podcast brought to you by Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, part of a 50-plus year endeavor to train pastors and other church leaders in the ministry of the gospel in the United States and around the world.

My name is Scott Redd.

I'm president here at RTS Washington.

I'm joined by my colleagues and good friends, Dr. Tommy Keene, professor of New Testament, Dr. Peter Lee, professor of Old Testament, and Dr.

Gray Sutanto, professor of systematic theology here in the DC campus.

And we have a special treat today.

We are joined by a special guest, Dr. Richard Gaffin.

It's great to have you, Dr. Gaffin.

Thank you.

It's a privilege to be here.

You need no introduction, and yet we will give you one.

And so I'd like to hand it over to Dr. Tommy Keene to give us a little bit of an introduction and start our conversation.

Yeah, it's funny, as you were saying that, it dawned on me that actually most of our listeners and students know of you.

You are a name in our hallowed halls here at RTS Washington because several of the faculty here have had you at Westminster and have tried to pass along the great tradition that you left for us to the next generation.

For those of you who don't know, Dr. Gaffin, Dr. Richard Gaffin, was the Charles Crahey Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Westminster Center.

You were there since 1965? Yes.

And most recently, the author of In the Fullness of Time, an Introduction to the Biblical Theology of Acts and Paul.

You can also find his writing in Resurrection and Redemption, Perspectives on Pentecost, and By Faith, Not by Sight, three of your seminal works there.

And I thought it'd be great to kind of start center of the circle, kind of with Pauline theology as maybe an anecdote.

I remember having you over to dinner one night and commenting on that I would describe myself as a gaffinite.

And you helpfully said, Tommy, I think that the word you're looking for is you're Pauline.

And I always appreciated that because that was center of the circle is kind of Paul's theology and his thought world.

And I think in the common thread in all of these books is that what makes Paul tick, what's architectonic for Paul, is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of redemption in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I thought that'd be a great place to start.

Can you give us some thoughts on that and how that helps us think about Paul and Paul's theological thought?