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Preaching Romans: Four Perspectives is unavailable, but you can change that!

First-rate scholars and preachers on four interpretive approaches to Paul and Romans. Pauline scholarship is a minefield of differing schools of thought. Those who teach or preach on Paul can quickly get lost in the weeds of the various perspectives. How, then, can pastors today best preach Paul’s message? Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica have assembled this stellar one-stop guide exploring...

has to wonder if Romans 1–4 is aimed at the Weak while Romans 5–8 is aimed at the Strong, and if Romans 5–8 is the gospel of and for the Strong. In reading Romans I suggest that if we begin with the context in Romans 12–16 and let those categories shape our reading of the rest of the letter we see that Romans 5–8 is the solution to the Strong-Weak divide: the solution is not torah observance nor reckless freedom but life in the Spirit. But Romans 1–8 is not abstract theology that is then applied
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