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Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire is unavailable, but you can change that!

To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the steps of Paul. To read Romans front to back was what Paul certainly intended. But to read Romans forward may have kept the full message of Romans from being perceived. Reading forward has led readers to classify Romans as abstract and systematic theology, as a letter unstained by real pastoral concerns....

probabilities but rather expound what I think is the best view. Time after time I was aware of alternative explanations, but this is not a book of interaction with scholarship. Rather, I am exploring an approach to reading Romans, and at times I will make some bold suggestions that would require much further work to demonstrate adequately. But, again, this book attempts to hear Romans through the (imagined) ears of the Weak and Strong. Western Christianity has been shaped by Romans like no other
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