RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture 7: L7-Romans and Importance of Books
29 Nov 2016
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Not all parts of scripture are equally important: clear that some books are more important than others, ecclesiastes not as important as psalms. Romans is the most important book in the history of christian thought. Others letters mostly written to churches that paul himself founded, they known him well: Paul was a suspicious character in the church, he had opponents in corinth and galatia and since he has never been to rome, he may have been concerned with who and what was told to them about paul. So this is his way of displaying his understanding of the gospel. !1: he spells out the basics of the christian faith and therefore romans is the essential features and foundations of christian thought (christian. Rst used language of justi cation by faith in christ, not by law (does this only because of a crisis: in romans, this became a normal way of paul"s thinking/repertoire: part of.
