This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract How are we to understand the difficult expression 'raised for our justification' (Romans 4:25b)? The clue lies in taking seriously the two διά ...

When Paul speaks of God “justifying” the “ungodly” Abraham when he believed God, Paul does not mean that Abraham was morally “wicked.” We are reading Romans 4 with the eyes of believers on a Lenten ...

The life situation of the reader of a text provides a lens through which that text is read. Or, to change the metaphor, the life situation provides the magnet, which draws from a text that which most ...