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Purpose and
Main Themes
of Galatians
- Probably written
~AD48 - 49
- Purpose
- 1) To defend Paul's authority
- 2) To defend Paul's message of justification by faith
- 3) To explain the meaning of Christian freedom
- 1) To defend Paul's authority
- Background
- Judaisers in Galatia claiming that
for a Gentile to become a
Christian, they first needed to be
circumcised and follow the Jewish
Law
- Judaisers in Galatia claiming that
for a Gentile to become a
Christian, they first needed to be
circumcised and follow the Jewish
Law
- Dispute Over
the Destination
of the Letter
- North Galatian Theory
- Galatia thought to cover the land in
the central parts of Asia - Paul was
here on his Second Missionary
Journey
- Most likely theory
- Most likely theory
- Galatia thought to cover the land in
the central parts of Asia - Paul was
here on his Second Missionary
Journey
- South Galatian Theory
- Galatians thought to have
been written to the Roman
province of Galatia (Pisidian
Antioch, Iconium, Lystra,
Derbe)
- First Missionary
Journey - Before the
Council of Jerusalem
- First Missionary
Journey - Before the
Council of Jerusalem
- Galatians thought to have
been written to the Roman
province of Galatia (Pisidian
Antioch, Iconium, Lystra,
Derbe)
- North Galatian Theory
- Tone of the Letter
- Drane - The letter to the
Galatians "was written hastily in
the middle of a raging
controversy"
- Paul was so angry
because of the
seriousness of the issue at
stake
- Paul feared that
Christianity was
becoming a Jewish sect
- Paul feared that
Christianity was
becoming a Jewish sect
- Drane - The letter to the
Galatians "was written hastily in
the middle of a raging
controversy"
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