A Postmodern Reading of Paul’s Letter to the Romans and Its Disclosure of a New Image of God and a New Understanding of Salvation

Under a hermeneutics of disclosure that prioritizes a subjective “ready-to-hand” relationship with the biblical text and, concomitantly, the ontological realities of solicitude and the knowing of a priori understanding, this article interprets Rom 1:17 and Gal 3:15–19 utilizing the literary-critical...

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Main Author: Waetjen, Herman C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2012
In: Theology today
Year: 2012, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 197-212
Further subjects:B solicitude
B God’s justice
B testament of inheritance
B Hermeneutics
B Disclosure
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