A Preface to Romans

A Preface to Romans

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  • Author: Christopher Bryan
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0195130235
  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

Bryan approaches St. Paul's letter to the Romans with a number of aims in view. First, he wants to show which literary type or genre would have been seen by Paul's contemporaries as being exemplified in the letter. He also attempts to determine what we can surmise of Paul's attitude and approach to the Jewish bible. The study involves discussion of and comparison with other literature from Paul's time, place and milieu --- including other writings attributed to Paul.


Paul Among the Gentiles: A "Radical" Reading of Romans

Paul Among the Gentiles: A

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  • Author: Jacob P. B. Mortensen
  • Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
  • ISBN: 3772000754
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 575

This exciting new interpretation of Pauls Letter to the Romans approaches Pauls most famous letter from one of the newest scholarly positions within Pauline Studies: The Radical New Perspective on Paul (also known as Paul within Judaism). As a point of departure, the author takes Pauls self-designation in 11:13 as apostle to the gentiles as so determining for Pauls mission that the audience of the letter is perceived to be exclusively gentile. The study finds confirmation of this reading-strategy in the letters construction of the interlocutor from chapter 2 onwards. Even in 2:17, where Paul describes the interlocutor as someone who calls himself a Jew, it requests to perceive this person as a gentile who presents himself as a Jew and not an ethnic Jew. If the interlocutor is perceived in this way throughout the letter, the dialogue between Paul and the interlocutor can be perceived as a continuous, unified and developing dialogue. In this way, this interpretation of Romans sketches out a position against a more disparate and fragmentary interpretation of Romans.


Romans 9-16

Romans 9-16

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  • Author: Philip D. W. Krey
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 083089912X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 449

Writing to the early Christians in Rome, the apostle Paul said, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect" (Rom 12:2 ESV). Perhaps more than any other New Testament epistle, Paul's letter to the Romans has been the focus of Christian reflection throughout the church's history, transforming the minds and convicting the hearts of believers. Sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther reflected the church's longstanding emphasis on this portion of the canon: "Let the Epistle to the Romans be the door and the key to holy Scripture for you; otherwise you will never enter into a proper understanding and comprehension of the Bible." In this volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, Philip Krey and Peter Krey guide readers with care through a diversity of Reformation-era commentary on the second half of Paul's letter to the Roman church. Among the difficult issues addressed by Paul and commented on by early modern exegetes were the predestination of God's elect, the destiny of Israel, the role of Gentiles in salvation history, the ethical demands of the Christian life, and the Christian's relationship to the state. Here, readers will encounter familiar voices and discover lesser-known figures from a variety of theological traditions, including Lutherans, Reformed, Radicals, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics. The volume draws on a variety of resources, including commentaries, sermons, treatises, and confessions, much of which appears here for the first time in English. Gathering together these Reformation-era reflections, it provides resources for contemporary preachers, enables scholars to better understand the depth and breadth of Reformation biblical commentary and aids the ongoing transformation of the minds—and lives—of people today.


Judgment According to Works in Romans

Judgment According to Works in Romans

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  • Author: Kevin W. McFadden
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1451469772
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Kevin W. McFadden shows that Paul wrote the letter to remind Roman Christians of his gospel because of his vocation as apostle to the Gentiles. The letter simultaneously demonstrates the guilt of the world and calls Paul's audience to live out the implications of the gospel. The theme of judgment thus appears in two distinct ways. Paul opposes justification by works of law, but simultaneously affirms––as did most of the early Christian movement, McFadden argues––a final judgment according to works. These are not contradictory observations but belong together in a cohesive understanding of Paul's theology and of his purpose in the letter.


Paul's Designations of God in Romans

Paul's Designations of God in Romans

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  • Author: Wing Yi Au
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • ISBN: 3161620658
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287


Celts, Romans, Britons

Celts, Romans, Britons

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  • Author: Francesca Kaminski-Jones
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198863071
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

This book investigates the ways in which ideas associated with the Celtic and the Classical have been used to construct identities (national/ethnic/regional etc.) in Britain, from the period of the Roman conquest to the present day.


The Purpose of Romans

The Purpose of Romans

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  • Author: L. Ann Jervis
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1850753040
  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

This book analyses the structure and content of the four epistolary sections of a Pauline letter most directly related to the question of purpose: the opening formula, the thanksgiving, the apostolic 'Parousia' and the conclusion. Jervis proposes that while the concerns of the letter involve Paul's missionary plans and his desire to establish himself as the Roman Christians' leader in the faith, the primary function of Romans is for Paul to make available to Christians at Rome the good news in all of its power. Romans is written to fulfil Paul's mandate to establish and nurture his Roman readers in a life of faith marked by obedience and holiness to preach the gospel to them.


The Celts, Picts, Scoti and Romans

The Celts, Picts, Scoti and Romans

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  • Author: Anita Ganeri
  • Publisher: Raintree
  • ISBN: 1474755038
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 33

Throughout our history, different peoples have invaded and settled in Brtain. This book looks at the Celts, Picts, Scots and Romans. Who were they? Why did they invade Britain and why did they decide to settle here? Find out about these peoples, what they brought with them and how their lifestyles and beliefs have influenced our culture today.


Housing the New Romans

Housing the New Romans

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  • Author: Katharine T. von Stackelberg
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190272333
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 353

"In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hãotel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception." -- provided by the publisher.


History of the Romans Under the Empire

History of the Romans Under the Empire

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  • Author: Charles Merivale
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Rome
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 582