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“Above all, Romans is a letter about Spirit-enabled participation and transformation in Christ and his story, and thus in the mission of God in the world.” This commentary engages the letter to the Romans as Christian scripture and highlights the Pauline themes for which Michael Gorman is best known—participation and transformation, cruciformity and new life, peace and justice, community and...

12–15). We may refer to this resurrection-infused, cross-shaped life as resurrectional cruciformity. This shape is not static but dynamic, constant yet never the same. It is faithful but creative, having the form of a story, not a single page; of a movie, not a snapshot. Moreover, there is a connection between 6:5–11 and Paul’s discussion of the end of the reign of Sin and Death in 5:12–21: through participation in Christ’s death and resurrection, believers experience for themselves the defeat of
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