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Sacra Pagina Brendan Byrne

Sacra Pagina By Brendan Byrne

Sacra Pagina by Brendan Byrne

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Adopts a literary-rhetorical approach, viewing Paul's Letter to the Romans as an instrument of persuasion designed to transform readers through a celebratory presentation of the Gospel. This tile touches upon virtually various issues of Christian theology and presents an introduction to Paul.

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Sacra Pagina by Brendan Byrne

This commentary adopts a literary-rhetorical approach, viewing the letter as an instrument of persuasion designed to transform readers through a celebratory presentation of the Gospel. Reflecting upon the fate of Jews and Gentiles, Paul wins his audience to a vision of a God who always acts inclusively. The God who, in the person of Israel's Messiah (Jesus), has acted faithfully to include the Gentile peoples within the community of salvation, will not fail to see to the eventual inclusion of Israel as well. In the victory of grace displayed already in the risen humanity of Jesus, the original design of the Creator for human communities and for the world begins to come true.

The interpretation of Paul's letter to Rome has accompanied and stimulated the path of Christian theology down to today. Romans touches upon virtually all main issues of Christian theology, as well as presenting a rewarding introduction to Paul. Byrne facilitates full access to Paul and his Gospel through the letter, allowing Christians today to hear his voice as intelligibly and powerfully as it has spoken to past generations.

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This is a lucid, major commentary on Romans.America

About Brendan Byrne

Brendan Byrne, SJ, is a professor of New Testament at Jesuit Theological College, within the United Faculty of Theology, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Romans (1996) in the Sacra Pagina series, Lifting the Burden: Reading Matthew's Gospel in the Church Today (2004), A Costly Freedom: A Theological Reading of Mark's Gospel (2008), Life Abounding: A Reading of John's Gospel (2014), and The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke's Gospel (2015), published by Liturgical Press.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Editor's Preface ix
Preface xi
Note on References xiii
Abbreviations xv

Introduction
A. Recent Interpretation of Romans 2
1. History as Paradigm 2
2. New Approaches to the Interpretation of Romans 3
3. The Approach Taken by This Commentary 8
B. Why Paul Wrote to Rome 8
1. The Historical Circumstances 8
a) Paul's Own Situation 8
b) The Christians in Rome 10
2. Romans as a Letter and Instrument of Persuasion 13
a) Letter Form 13
b) Instrument of Persuasion 16
3. Why Paul Wrote to Rome: Conclusion 18
C. Paul's Rhetorical Task 19
1. Knowledge Paul Has in Common with the Christians of Rome 20
a) The Heritage from Judaism 20
b) The Shared Christian Pattern of Belief 21
2. Knowledge More Particularly Distinctive of Paul 22
D. The Structure of the Letter 26
Outline of the Structure of the Letter 27
E. Two Further Issues 29
1. The Integrity of the Letter 29
2. Paul and Israel 29
General Bibliography 31
A. The Socio-Rhetorical Approach 31
B. Christianity in Rome 32
C. Occasion and Purpose of Romans 33
D. Commentaries 33
E. General 34

Translation, Interpretation, Notes
Introduction (1:1-17) 37
a) Address and Greeting (1:1-7) 37
b) Thanksgiving and Theme (1:8-17) 47
Body of the Letter (1:18-15:13) 62
I. THE INCLUSIVE SAVING POWER OF THE GOSPEL (1:18-11:36) 62
A. The Inclusion of the Gentiles on the Basis of Righteousness by Faith (1:18-4:25) 62
i. No Other Righteousness (1:18-3:20) 63
a) The Revelation of God's Wrath Against the Gentile World (1:18-32) 63
b) Those Who judge Are Not Immune from the Wrath (2:1-11) 79
c) Possession of the Law Makes No Difference (2:12-29) 87
1. The Law and the Gentiles (2:12-16) 87
2. The Law and the Jews (2:17-24) 95
3. The Real Jew (2:25-29) 101
d) God's Faithfulness to Israel Stands (3:1-8) 106
e) Scripture's Witness to Universal Lack of Righteousness (3:9-20) 115
ii. The Righteousness of God Now Available to All Believers (3:21-26) 122
iii. Faith, the Sole Basis Upon Which the One God Justifies All (3:27-31) 135
iv. Scripture's Witness to Righteousness by Faith (4:1-25) 141
a) Abraham, Justified on the Basis of Faith (4:1-12) 144
b) Abraham, Paradigm Receiver of the Promise on the Basis of Faith (4:13-25) 151
B. The Sure Hope of Salvation Springing from Righteousness by Faith (5:1-8:39) 162
i. The Hope That Springs from God's Love (5:1-11) 164
ii. The Legacy of Christ (Righteousness and Life) Outweighs the Legacy of Adam (Sin and Death) (5:12-21) 173
iii. The Freedom to Live Out the Righteousness of God (6:1-8:13) 187
a) Dead to Sin/Alive to God in Christ (6:1-14) 188
b) The New Obedience (6:15-23) 199
c) Free in Christ from the Law (7:1-6) 208
d) The Fatal Encounter with the Law (7:7-13) 216
e) Life Under the Law-Ethical Impossibility'' (7:14-25) 224
f) Life in the Spirit-Ethical Possibility (8:1-13) 234
iv. Hope of Glory for God's Children (8:14-30) 247
a) Children and Heirs of God (8:14-17) 247
b) The Groaning'' of Creation (8:18-22) 254
c) The Groaning of Ourselves (8:23-25) 262
d) The Groaning of the Spirit (8:26-28) and God's Eternal Plan (8:29-30) 266
v. The Coming Victory of God's Love (8:31-39) 274
C. The Inclusion of Israel (9:1-11:36) 281
i. The Bitter Problem of Israel's Present Unbelief (9:1-5) 284
ii. The Elective Pattern of God's Working (9:6-29) 289
a) The Elective Pattern Shown in the Patriarchs (9:6-13) 291
b) The Elective Pattern Shown in Moses and Pharaoh (9:14-18) 295
c) God's Freedom Defended Against Human Complaint (9:19-21) 296
d) The Elective Pattern Shown in the Composition of the Believing Community (9:22-29) 300
iii. Israel's Present Rejection of the Gospel (9:30-10:21) 307
a) Stumbling Before the Righteousness of God (9:30-10:4) 308
b) Scripture's Witness to Righteousness by Faith (10:5-13) 316
c) Israel Has Heard but Not Responded to the Gospel (10:14-21) 323
iv. Israel's Ultimate Inclusion in the Community of Salvation (11:1-32) 328
a) God Has Not Rejected Israel-the Remnant (11:1-10) 329
b) Israel's Stumbling Has a Saving Purpose (11:11-24) 336
c) The Mystery: the Final Salvation of All Israel (11:25-32) 348
v. Hymn to God's Inscrutable Wisdom (11:33-36) 358
II. SUMMONS TO LIVE ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL (12:1-15:13) 361
i. Christian Life as Rational Worship (12:1-2) 362
ii. The Basic Demands of Christian Living (12:3-13:14) 367
a) A Due Assessment of One's Personal Gift (12:3-8) 367
b) Love in Action Within the Community (12:9-16) 374
c) Love in Action Outside the Community (12:17-21) 380
d) Duties Towards Civil Authorities (13:1-7) 384
e) The Sole Debt of Love (13:8-10) 393
f) Knowing the Time (13:11-14) 397
iii. Tolerance in Contentious Areas of Community Life (14:1-15:13) 403
a) The Tolerance Incumbent upon All (14:1-12) 407
b) The Tolerance Asked Particularly of the Strong (14:13-23) 414
c) The Example of Christ as Grounds for Tolerance (15:1-6) 423
d) Christ's Acceptance as Model for Community Acceptance (15:7-13) 428
Conclusion of the Letter (15:14-16:24[27]) 433
i. Paul's Ministry of the Gospel to the Gentiles (15:14-33) 433
a) Paul's Apostolic Mission Until Now (15:14-21) 434
b) Paul's Plans for the Future and Concluding Grace I (15:22-33) 439
ii. Commendation and Greetings (16:1-27) 446
a) Commendation of Phoebe (16:1-2) 447
b) Greetings I (16:3-16) 449
c) A Warning (16:17-20) 455
d) Greetings II and Concluding Grace II (16:21-24) 459
e) (Inauthentic) Concluding Doxology (16:25-27) 461

Indexes
Scripture Index 465
Index of Ancient Writings 487
Author Index 494
Subject Index 499
Supplementary Bibliography 504

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Sacra Pagina by Brendan Byrne
Brendan Byrne
Sacra Pagina
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Liturgical Press
2007-10-01
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