Daniel Patte teaches at Vanderbilt University, is author of The Challenge of Discipleship (Trinty), Discipleship According to the Sermon on the Mount (Trinity), and an editor of Reading Israel in Romans: Legitimacy and Plausibility of Divergent Interpretations.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Foreword: Critical Readings and Receptions of Romans in an Age of Fake News and Alternative Facts
Introduction. Reading Romans After Studying its Receptions
Part One: Critical Interpretation and the History of Reception of Romans
1. Receptions of Romans Through History and Cultures: A Challenge for Exegesis, Theology, and Ethics
2. Critical Exegeses of Romans and the Plurality of Legitimate and Plausible Interpretations
Part Two: A Triple Commentary: Three Legitimate and Plausible Critical Exegeses of Romans 1:1-32
3. Reading Romans 1:1-32 For its Forensic Theological Argument
4. Reading Romans 1:1-32 for its Call to Mission of an Inclusive Covenantal Community
5. Reading Romans 1:1-32 for its Realized-Apocalyptic/Messianic Vision
Part Three: Critical Exegesis and Receptions of Romans 1:1-32
6. The Contextual Character of the Three Legitimate and Plausible Interpretations of Romans 1:1-32
7. Receptions of Romans 1:1-32 as Guides for Choosing among Interpretations
Conclusions
Appendix: Threefold Interpretive Choices about 31 Key Theological and Ethical Themes in Rom 1:1-32
Bibliography
Index