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The Letter to the Romans: Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of Law

Salvation as Justice and the Deconstruction of Law

by Herman C. Waetjen

  • Hardback
  • 418 pages
  • Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

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Romans, says Waetjen, is the first publication of the Christ movement. To understand it well is therefore a task of monumental importance, and to understand it today requires a postmodern hermeneutics, in which the interpreter's subjective experience of reading the text is correlated with historical-critical knowledge and socialscientific criticism. That hermeneutics has to create a new genre of commentary, making room for readers' prior understandings as well as for a dynamic form of close reading and consistency building. The outcome is a contemporizing of Paul's theology that induces conversation with Derrida, Zizek, Badiou and Agamben and others. The central theme of Romans is, according to Waetjen, the healing of humanity through the realization of 'the justice of God', which is disclosed in the movement 'out of trust into trust', or, more specifically, out of the trust of Abraham into the trust of Jesus Christ. Living on this side of the law of Sinai and therefore being conscious of the condition of sin requires the reconciliation of Christ's death and the justification of Christ's resurrection in order to participate in the New Humanity of life-giving spirits. Consequently Romans is more than a rhetorical effort to mediate conflicts between Jewish and Gentile believers in Rome. Composed prior to his journey to Jerusalem with the possibility of martyrdom before him, the letter is Paul's major theological testament.
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  • Author

    Herman C. Waetjen

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd

  • Published

    July 2011

  • Weight

    759g

  • Page Count

    418

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781907534225

  • ISBN-10

    1907534229

  • Eden Code

    4011592

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