Provoked to Saving Jealousy: Reading Romans 9–11 as Theological Performance
The history of interpretation indicates that Christian interpretations take Romans 9–11 as a single, coherently designed statement of doctrine. There are, of course, disagreements within the consensus, but most readers seem to share two basic assumptions: (1) the apostle had a particular point to ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Pneuma
Year: 2016, Volume: 38, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 180-192 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBK Soteriology NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
| Further subjects: | B
Romans 9–11
soteriology
Pauline theology
election / predestination
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| Summary: | The history of interpretation indicates that Christian interpretations take Romans 9–11 as a single, coherently designed statement of doctrine. There are, of course, disagreements within the consensus, but most readers seem to share two basic assumptions: (1) the apostle had a particular point to make, which he crafted with perfect success, and (2) a good reading of the passage discovers that point and makes it understandable so it can be used to build or support a particular Christian teaching. At an angle to that tradition, I want to suggest that Romans 9–11 can perhaps also (if not more) fruitfully be read not as a tidy doctrinal treatise but as a torrid theological performance, a transfiguring work of art staged as a series of rhetorical moves and countermoves that in the end leaves us not with nothing but with more than we dared to imagine possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0747 |
| Contains: | In: Pneuma
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700747-03801014 |