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Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5-8
Author(s): Beverly Roberts Gaventa
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication Date: 30 Oct. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 207 pages
- ISBN-10: 1602589690
- ISBN-13: 9781602589698
Book Description
Romans 5-8 revolve around God’s dramatic cosmic activity and its implications for humanity and all of creation. Apocalyptic Paul measures the power of Paul’s rhetoric about the relationship of cosmic power to the Law, interpretations of righteousness and the self, and the link between grace and obedience. A revealing study of Paul’s understanding of humanity in light of God’s apocalyptic action through Jesus Christ, Apocalyptic Paul illuminates Romans 5-8 and shows how critical this neglected part of Romans was to Paul’s literary project.
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Review
Romans 5-8 are explored, pressed, and at times — as they should be — simply celebrated. Every reader interested in Paul will benefit from this interplay of theology, exegesis, and subtle intertextuality, threaded through with church tradition. Perhaps most importantly, many of the apostle’s most powerful and challenging thoughts are on display here at the hands of some of his most significant and gifted current interpreters. Douglas A Campbell, Associate Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School This volume brings us into the company of seasoned Pauline scholars focused on the centre of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. The conversation among these experts, all sympathetic (though not all in the same way) to the designation of Paul as an apocalyptic figure, reveals richly informed engagement with the text and honest wrestling with the large questions of cosmology and anthropology raised by Romans 5-8. Altogether the essays in this volume stand as a profoundly stimulating, challenging, crucial, and timely contribution to the conversation about Paul’s interpretation of the gospel in what remains for the time being contested territory.Alexandra Brown, Jessie Ball duPont Professor of Religion, Washington & Lee University We are indebted to Beverly Gaventa for this fine collection. This is an unusually strong series of studies by respected Paul scholars that should be of interest to anyone preaching and teaching from Romans, especially Romans 5-8. –A. Katherine Grieb, Professor of New Testament, Virginia Theological Seminary
About the Author
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Distinguished Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Baylor University. She has authored many books, including ‘From Darkness to Light: Aspects of Conversion in the New Testament’ and ‘Our Mother Saint Paul’.
