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Robert Lewis examines Paul's use of the phrase "Spirit of Adoption" in Romans 8:12-17 against the background of its Roman Imperial context in order to shed light on interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans. Whereas other scholars have explored what Paul may have meant when he uses the term "adoption" Lewis instead explores the reasons behind Paul's coupling of it with the term "spirit". Having examined theories for a possible Jewish antecedent for Paul's use of this phrase, and found them less than persuasive, Lewis unlocks the data within the term's Roman Imperial context that significantly clarifies what Paul means when he uses the phrase "Spirit of adoption". Lewis shows that when Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, adoption had become a feature of Imperial succession. Roman religion gave a great deal of prominence to the Roman family spirit - the genius. The Emperor's genius became identified as a deity in Roman religion and its veneration was widespread in Rome as well as the provinces. When Romans 8.12-17 is read against this background, a very different kind of exegetical picture emerges

Adoption (Theology) --- Biblical teaching. --- History of doctrines. --- Bible. --- 227.1*1 --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Mystical union --- God (Christianity) --- Fatherhood --- Adoption (Theology) - Biblical teaching. --- Adoption (Theology) - History of doctrines.

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Spanning a variety of disciplines, this 1995 enquiry focuses on one particular Pauline characteristic: the apostle's habit of making matters of faith the object of logical appraisal. A tracing of the elliptical patterns of argument in Romans 1-8 illustrates this habit and, at the same time, displays how Paul's vigorous persistence in it seems often not to be matched by the solidity, or at any rate the lucidity, of his logic. By viewing Paul against the background of semiology, more especially the semiological theory of Umberto Eco, new light is shed on the genesis of Paul's reasoning. The discussion which ensues is marked by an interesting and productive combination of modern linguistics and classical logic. Moreover, the singular potential of today's techniques of 'fuzzy' logical analysis for measuring the intellectual muscle of Paul's argumentation is brought out dramatically by the uniqueness of his semiological situation. His rationality takes on a new face.

Enthymeme (Logic) --- 227.1*1 --- #GROL:SEMI-225<08> Soci 82 --- #GROL:SEMI-227.1*1 --- Logic --- Syllogism --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Bible. --- Faith and reason --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Christianity. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Bible. --- Epître aux Romains (Book of the New Testament) --- List do Rzymian (Book of the New Testament) --- Roma-sŏ --- Római levél --- Romans (Book of the New Testament) --- Romasŏ --- 227.1*1 --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen

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This book offers a fresh approach to Paul's gospel. Applying linguistic discourse analysis to Romans 1:16-8:39, it helps the reader to gain a comprehensive understanding of the argumentative structure and contents of the gospel of Paul. As well as revealing the two underlying descriptive frameworks that Paul uses to explain his gospel about God's salvation - the interactive framework between God and humans, and the 'two-realm' framework - this book demonstrates that Paul's gospel consists of one 'peak point' that shows the central role of Jesus, and two 'sub-peaks' elucidating salvation.

Greek language, Biblical --- Biblical Greek --- New Testament Greek --- Discourse analysis. --- Bible. --- Language, style. --- Theology. --- 227.1*1 --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Discourse analysis --- Grec biblique --- Bible. N.T. Romans I, 16-VIII, 39 --- Language, style --- Theology

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Of all the letters in the Pauline corpus, the Letter to the Romans has attracted the greatest degree of scholarly attention. Yet surprisingly scant consideration has been given to the question of its literary genre. Taking up the comparatively brief suggestions of previous scholars, Dr Guerra argues that the Letter belongs to the protreptic genre - the class of writing in antiquity which urges the adoption of a particular way of life (or a deeper commitment to it), setting out its advantages, replying to objections, and demonstrating its superiority. Working through each chapter of the Letter in turn, he indicates how Paul provides a critique of non-Christian ways of life (both Jewish and Gentile) and affirms the superiority of the Christian Gospel. It becomes apparent that the Pauline apologetics of Romans stand between the hellenistic Jewish tradition and the later Greek Christian apologists, and may have influenced the latter.

Apologetics --- History --- 227.1*1 --- 239.1 --- -Apologetics --- Apologetics, Missionary --- Christian evidences --- Christianity --- Evidences, Christian --- Evidences of Christianity --- Fundamental theology --- Polemics (Theology) --- Theology, Fundamental --- Religious thought --- Theology --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Apologetica:--in de apostolische tijd --- -Evidences --- -Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- -227.1*1 --- 239.1 Apologetica:--in de apostolische tijd --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- -227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Bible. --- Epître aux Romains (Book of the New Testament) --- List do Rzymian (Book of the New Testament) --- Roma-sŏ --- Római levél --- Romans (Book of the New Testament) --- Romasŏ --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Apologetics - History - Early church, ca 30-600