During my study of adoption, which began when I was teaching an exegesis class on Romans in a theological seminary in West Africa, I was struck by two main points: first, throughout the history of the church, adoption has (at times) been misunderstood; and second, popular and scholarly interests in this expression have been too narrowly focused. Regarding the former, adoption has been misinterpreted by systematicians and ‘has … been more often in the dark
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