Reading Romans backwards : a gospel of peace in the midst of empire / Scot McKnight.
Publisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1481308777
- 9781481308779
- 227/.1066 23
- BS2665.52 .M357 2019
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Dalton McCaughey Library | Level 1 | FN38 M159 | Available | 33865001669594 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and indexes.
A community needing peace: Romans 12-16. Phoebe--the face of Romans ; The greetings and the house of churches of Rome ; Strong and weak ; Zealotry ; Christoformity--Paul's vision for a lived theology of peace ; Christoformity is embodied God orientation ; Christoformity is embodied body-of-Christ orientation ; Christoformity is public orientation ; Know the time is now -- A narrative leading to peace: Romans 9-11. Where we've been, where we are, where we're headed ; To the weak ; To the strong -- A Torah that disrupts peace: Romans 1-4. The opening to the letter ; The rhetoric of Romans 1-2 ; Reading Romans 2 after Romans 1 ; The first question--advantage ; The second question--boasting in advantage ; The third question--Abraham, faith, and advantage -- A Spirit creating peace: Romans 5-8. All ; You and we ; I -- Conclusion: Reading Romans forwards, in brief.
Proposes an innovative New Perspective reading of Romans emphasizing the ecclesiological situation of the original addressees and Paul's pastoral response.