Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor

A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4

• Author(s): Israel Kamudzandu,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 9004183337
  ISBN_13: 9789004183339
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament , Bibles / General ,

Description:... New Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of "all" faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. Paul's epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity.