Abraham as spiritual ancestor : a postcolonial Zimbabwean reading of Romans 4 /
New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the b...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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Biblical Interpretation Series
100.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222731.
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Call Number: BS2665.52 .K36 2010
| Summary: | New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of \'all\' faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. Paul's epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004183339 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |