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Karl Barth und die Neukantianismus : die Rezeption des Neukantianismus im Römerbrief und ihre Bedeutung für die weitere Ausarbeitung der Theologie Karl Barths
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ISBN: 3110148838 3110885301 9783110148831 Year: 1995 Volume: 72 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

Romans and the apologetic tradition : the purpose, genre and audience of Paul's letter
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ISBN: 0521471265 0521619831 0511520360 9780521471268 9780521619837 Year: 1995 Volume: 81 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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