Invites Readers of Romans to Expand Their View of God and the Gospel
When
reading the book of Romans, we often focus on the quotable passages,
making brief stopovers and not staying long enough to grasp some of the
big ideas it contains. Instead of raiding Paul's most famous letter for a
passage here or a theme there, leading New Testament scholar Beverly
Roberts Gaventa invites us to linger in Romans. She asks that we stay
with the letter long enough to see how Romans reframes our tidy
categories and dramatically enlarges our sense of the gospel.
Containing
profound insights written in accessible prose and illuminating
references to contemporary culture, this engaging book explores the
cosmic dimensions of the gospel that we read about in Paul's letter.
Gaventa focuses on four key issues in Romans--salvation, identity,
ethics, and community--that are crucial both for the first century and
for our own. As she helps us navigate the book of Romans, she shows that
the gospel is far larger, wilder, and more unsettling than we generally
imagine it to be.