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Constructing the World: A Study in Paul’s Cosmological Language is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Adams focuses, in this ground-breaking study, on Paul’s understanding and use of the cosmological concepts ‘world’ and ‘creation’. He confronts this study by using current disciplines, such as critical linguistics, to understand the differing perspectives on the world found in 1 Corinthians and Romans by examining Paul’s historical and social context.

In his explication of the outworking of the divine wrath, Paul places emphasis on the “fitness” of God’s response to Gentile sin (the notion of appropriate punishment is extensively developed in Wisdom of Solomon, 11:15–26; 16:1–19:17). In each subsection, vv. 22–24, vv. 25–27 and vv. 28–32, a deliberate suppression of the truth is matched with a corresponding and appropriate response by God.52 The exchange of the glory (δόξα) of God for idols (v. 23) results in their being given over to the dishonour
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