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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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Adoption (Theology) --- Biblical teaching. --- 227.08 --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Paulinische theologie --- Mystical union --- God (Christianity) --- Biblical teaching --- Fatherhood --- Bible. --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Adoption (Theology) - Biblical teaching.