The Letter to the Romans: Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of Law. By Herman C. Waetjen. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv + 390. Cloth, $115/€85developmental constraintinternal selectionbody planorganismic form...
For Paul, human salvation is to take place in the wider context of a renewed and transformed world. In Romans, Paul claims the wide-ranging, boundary-breaking scope of the grace of God that comes in Christ. What God has done has - contrary to all expectation - broken the bounds of the...
The theme of the body of Christ appears in the letters of Paul (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4–5; Colossians 1). In modern Roman Catholic theology, the termmysticalhas been added tobody, doubtless with the intention of distinguishing the church as body from the juridical society...
Here is the prayer that the Lord opened serendipitously for me as I began to write down these comments. It’s from the man whom God’s word declares was given greater wisdom than any natural man who has ever lived, Solomon. And he uttered this prayer at the dawn of Israel’s golden ...
Indeed. She had much to process: Her baby was the Messiah, the Promised One, who would save his people from their sin. I wonder if she studied him, looking forsignsthat he was different from other infants. This was the Prince of Peace cradled in her arms. Yet he had been born to ...
(Galatians 1:16). By the time of his lastextantletter,Romans, he could clearly describe his own place in God’s plan. The Hebrew prophets, he wrote, had predicted that in “days to come” God would restore the tribes of Israel and that the Gentiles would then turn to worship the one...
Romans 8:28; James 1:2-4; Matthew 5:16; Psalm 46:1) GOD: I am greater than your hurts. Remember my love and tenderness, my grace and kindness. I provide a solid foundation on which to rest, even when wave after wave of challenge sweeps through your life [2]. I am your Great ...
Apply:ReadRomans 8:16. What principle about salvation in Jesus is found here? Share:Your friend says we are either predestined to be the children of God or we are predestined to be lost. We have no choice? What do you tell your friend? SeeHow do we Get Elected by God?
It is not uncommon for people to speak of the importance of planning. In fact, not planning, can easily lead to peril. We are all familiar with some of the benefits of planning, so it should not be too much of a stretch for us to understand why God planned so great a salvation. Tu...
“The image can be worn down to the point that it is almost invisible, it can be plunged into darkness and disfigured, it can be clear and beautiful, but it does not cease to be.” — Saint Augustine Four hundred and fifty years ago, Paolo Veronese painted his controversial version of ...