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* 1. According to McIntosh, the real teacher of Christian theology is

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* 2. McIntosh likens piracy to thinking and speaking about God

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* 3. Why does he care? (About 'piracy', that is.)

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* 4. What strike you as key terms in these chapters? Key terms would have special significance to the substance of the author's argument. Use ALL CAPS for terms you don't know, whether in their general sense or in some narrower technical theological sense in which they're employed here.

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* 5. Evaluate McIntosh's midrashim on Romans on pages 8-9 and 10-11. Do you find them exegetically sound? Theologically appropriate and insightful? Where or where not, and why or why not? Draw on New Testament, Intro to Christian Doctrine, and of course insights from church and other sources of your prior theological formation.

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* 6. Can you explain how this source material in Romans informs McIntosh's broader thesis?

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* 7. What surprises you in these chapters about how McIntosh describes theology? And how persuasive are these claims that surprise you?

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