Rereading Romans from the Perspective of Paul's Gospel

Rereading Romans from the Perspective of Paul's Gospel
Author: Yung Suk Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532693095

Paul did not write a systematic theology or specific church doctrines when he wrote Romans. His audience was Roman Christians, and his last will was to preach the gospel to all, especially gentiles in Spain. Through this letter, Paul wants to pave the way for a visit to Rome and expects their support on his mission trip to Spain. The question is this: What kind of the gospel does he want to share with them? Traditionally, the letter has been read from the perspective of forensic salvation that an individual justification occurs once and for all by faith in Christ. This view remains with the so-called New Perspective on Paul, and Christ’s faithfulness has not been explored. Rereading the letter with a renewed concept of the good news in the letter, this book challenges the traditional reading of Romans and explores Paul’s threefold gospel that features the gospel that is God-centered, Christ-exemplified, and Christian-imitated. His main concern is how gentiles can become children of God, as well as how Jews may live faithfully in Christ. In Romans, the good news is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith. It is not a set of knowledge about God or Jesus. Paul is eager to share this gospel of faith with the Roman Christians and to correct some misunderstandings about him, since his gospel is viewed as anti-Jewish or antinomian.

Rereading Galatians from the Perspective of Paul’s Gospel

Rereading Galatians from the Perspective of Paul’s Gospel
Author: Yung Suk Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532691149

Galatians has often been read from a rhetorical perspective, with an emphasis on justification by faith, Paul's autobiographical experience, proofs of the gospel, and exhortations to the Galatians. However, it can be read as a "letter" of which the main theme is the gospel--an umbrella term that covers many other topics, including faith, righteousness, freedom, and new creation. Paul writes Galatians not to argue for an individual justification by faith (understood from a forensic salvation perspective), but to make explicit his gospel that all can become children of God through faith. In Paul's logic, what comes first is God's promise, faith is a response to it through Christ, and the law can be fulfilled through faith. The gospel that Paul proclaimed to the Galatians is based on God, who called them in the grace of Christ (1:6). Kim challenges the traditional reading of Galatians, exploring different dimensions of the gospel: (1) God as the origin and root of the gospel; (2) Christ as the exemplifier of God's gospel through faithfulness; (3) the followers of Jesus as the children of God who participate in Christ's faithfulness and continue to proclaim the good news of God through Jesus.

A Rereading of Romans

A Rereading of Romans
Author: Stanley Kent Stowers
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300070682

Paul's Letter to the Romans is one of the most influential writings of Christian theology. In this reinterpretation, the author provides a new reading that places Romans within the sociocultural, historical and rhetorical contexts of Paul's world.

The Deliverance of God

The Deliverance of God
Author: Douglas A. Campbell
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 1250
Release: 2009-08-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802831265

This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation, pushing beyond both " Lutheran" and "New" perspectives on Paul to a non-contractual , "apocalyptic" reading of many of the apostle's most famous, and most troublesome, texts. His strongly antithetical vision identifies "participation in Christ" as the sole core of Pauline theology and produces the most radical rereading of Romans 1-4 for more than a generation. Even those who disagree will be forced to clarify their views as never before.

Re-reading Romans in context

Re-reading Romans in context
Author: Graham Jackman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1291342133

Breaking with the tradition of reading Romans as a theological treatise devoted essentially to 'justification by faith', this 're-reading', drawing upon the insights of the 'new perspective on Paul', views it as a true letter written to Christians in Rome. It argues that Paul's prime concern in Romans is the troubled relationship of Jews and Gentiles in the early church, and specifically in Rome, and it seeks to follow the Apostle's argument and his attempts to bring the separate groups together in unified worship. It also includes a short overview of the early church in Rome, a brief introduction to issues of reading and interpretation, and reflections on the importance of Romans for readers today.

Paul's Letter to the Romans

Paul's Letter to the Romans
Author: Colin G. Kruse
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0802837433

In this Romans commentary Colin Kruse shows how Paul expounds the gospel against the background of God's sovereign action as creator, judge, and redeemer of the world. --from publisher description.

Paul's Gospel in Romans

Paul's Gospel in Romans
Author: Jae Hyun Lee
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047443934

Using linguistic discourse analysis, this book offers a fresh approach to Paul's gospel in Romans 1-8 and provides a comprehensive understanding of his argumentative structure and subject matter including the central points of Paul's gospel.

Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes

Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes
Author: Brad Vaughn
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830873619

According to Brad Vaughn, some traditional East Asian cultural values are closer to those of the first-century biblical world than common Western cultural values. In this work Vaughn demonstrates how paying attention to East Asian culture provides a helpful lens for interpreting Paul's most complex letter, and we see how honor and shame shape so much of Paul's message and mission.

A Preface to Romans

A Preface to Romans
Author: Christopher Bryan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2000-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195351495

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’s Gospel, Empire, Race, and Ethnicity

Paul’s Gospel, Empire, Race, and Ethnicity
Author: Yung Suk Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666724882

Contributors to this volume, who represent diverse cultures and perspectives of Asian descent, African American heritage, and Latin American culture, explore Paul's gospel in critical contexts and its implications for race/ethnicity. Key questions include: What is Paul's gospel? Is it for or against the Roman imperial order? Does Paul's message foster true diversity and race relations? Or does it implicate a racial hierarchy or racism? This volume engages readers in conversation with the politics of interpretation in Paul's gospel. How much is it political? Which Paul do we read? This collective volume is the clarion call that biblical interpretation is not an arcane genre in the ivory tower but engages current issues in the real world of America, where we must tackle racism, the Western imperial gospel, and the rigid body politic.