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This commentary on Paul’s letter to the Romans summarizes and completes Ernst Käsemann’s lifelong study of Paul’s theology and of this epistle in particular. As is common in his writings, Käsemann in this commentary has gone his own, frequently provocative way. He has emphasized theological rather than historical questions; as a result, this commentary divides Romans into sections according to...

comes out most plainly at this point. The Spirit unites the community to the body of Christ and thus creates for itself spatially a field of earthly activity, a sphere of power which corresponds antithetically to the sphere of the rule of flesh or of the “letter.” [205] The cosmic dualism toward which Hellenistic Judaism was already tending (cf. Brandenburger, Fleisch) is apocalyptically changed. The power of the resurrection world breaks into the old aeon and brings about a worldwide conflict into
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