Dr. Craig Keener, Romans, Lecture 4, Romans 1:18-2:10
Craig Keener
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17 February 2016
20 August 2025
Biblical eLearning (http://biblicalelearning.org) presents (audio is also available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ebPfgQ8e50Xbt8feIXbfF?si=22638f64878049ef): 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. The audio, full text in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and others are freely available at https://biblicalelearning.org. Also found there are AI-generated Short Summaries, study guides, FAQs, and a summary dialogic audio Podcast. 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 Dr. Keener''s teaching in audio format is now available on Spotify Podcasting playlist [Biblical eLearning - Ted Hildebrandt]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ioEohv1sTJjKnkQCLG74z?si=b32fb2af25b9409a
