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Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor: A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4

by Israel Kamudzandu

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.6 x 24.4 x 2.1 cm

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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.

  • Author

    Israel Kamudzandu

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    March 2010

  • Weight

    591g

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004181649

  • ISBN-10

    9004181644

  • Eden Code

    4708745

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