Pastoral Epistles: 1-2 Timothy, Titus

Sponsors: Osvaldo Padilla ([email protected]) and Lyn Kidson ([email protected])

The Pastoral Epistles (1-2 Timothy, Titus) session is inviting the top commentary writers of these letters. There have been many commentaries published interpreting these letters in particular in the last decade. We are inviting commentators (including those who wrote in languages other than English) to speak about the process of commentary-writing, the theological parts that were most challenging, where they see study of these letters going in the future, and so on. If you have any questions, please contact Osvaldo Padilla ([email protected]) or Lyn Kidson ([email protected]).

2025 Schedule Forthcoming

Fri Nov 22
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Indigo 202A (Second Level) - Hilton Bayfront

Leadership in the Pastoral Epistles

Lyn Kidson, Presiding

Christopher R. Hutson, Abilene Christian University
"God’s Household Manager" in the Garden: Reading the Pastoral Epistles alongside Philodemus’s On Household Management (25 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Osvaldo Padilla, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University
The Language of Leadership in the Pastoral Epistles (25 min)

Discussion (5 min)

Miguel Echevarria, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Naughty Leaders in God's Household: Examining the Vices of Unqualified Spiritual Authorities in the Pastoral Epistles (25 min)

Discussion (5 min)

3:30 to 5:30 pm
11/17/2023
Conference Room 9

This new Research Group will begin in the national meeting in 2023. Over the last decade research on these letters has grown much, exploring, in particular, the phase of Christianity in which the documents were produced, the identity of the opponents, the theology of the letters, and whether or not the letters should be read as a group or individually. For 2023 the theme is “The Pastoral Epistles and Space.” These letters are full of the language of space or location: Asia, Ephesus, Crete, household, world, Rome, and so on. What can be gained in our understanding of the letters when, for example, we examine the relationship between itinerant teachers and domestic space? What happens when we read the letters with ancient, not modern, conceptions of private versus public space? How does a careful study of the treatment of women at Ephesus from fresh archaeological and literary sources help ‘set-up’ the exegesis of the letters? For more information, contact Osvaldo Padilla ([email protected]) and Lyn Kidson ([email protected]).

Osvaldo Padilla, Samford University, Presiding

Lyn Kidson, Macquarie University, Presiding

Lyn Kidson, Macquarie University
“Go Home!” Divisions between Private and Public Space in the Pastoral Epistles (20 min)

Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary
Eusebeia as Social Respectability: The Public Life of the Christian Pastor (20 min)

Break (10 min)

Discussion (15 min)

Isaiah Allen, Booth University College
The Fictional Household of Titus 2:1–15 (20 min)

Michael Bird, Ridley Melbourne
Can We Place the Pastoral Epistles in the Chronological Space of the Second Century? (20 min)

Discussion (15 min)

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