traced back to this inner core of Pauline preaching. Underlying the doctrinal exposition of Romans is a story in which God and the human family are estranged and reconciled again, thanks to the saving righteousness of the Father, the death and resurrection of the Son, and the sanctifying action of the Spirit. Together the Persons of the triune God have done for the fallen race of Adam what it was helpless to do on its own—namely, to raise it from the bondage of sin and death to the grace of new life