Navigating Romans Through Cultures Challenging Readings by Charting a New Course

by Yeo, Khiok-khng

• ISBN13: 9780567025012
• ISBN10: 0567025012
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-05
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

Provides the first collective cross-cultural reading of Romans.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Navigating Romans Through Cultures	1	(30)
Yeo Khiok-khng
Part 1 EUROPE AND AFRICA
From Margins to Center: Pentecostal and Orthodox Readings of Romans 8 in Romania	31	(26)
Florin T. Cimpean
Response: Centrality of the Spirit	54	(3)
Herold Weiss
A ``Frontier'' Reading of Romans: The Case of Bishop John William Colenso (1814-1883)	57	(38)
Jonathan A. Draper
Response: Comparative and Reception Paradigms	83	(12)
Gerald O. West
Part 2 LATIN AMERICA AND NORTH AMERICA
The Righteousness of God and Hurricane Mitch: Reading Romans in Hurricane-Devastated Honduras	95	(42)
Mark D. Baker
J. Ross Wagner
Response: A Radical and Holistic Reading	133	(4)
James D. G. Dunn
Repudiating Assimilation in Readings Romans 9-11: A Latino Theologian Locates His Cultural-Religious Hybridity	137	(34)
Juan Escarfuller
Response: Our Struggle as Mestizos	168	(3)
Elsa Tamez
Subjection, Reflection, Resistance: An African American Reading of the Three-Dimensional Process of Empowerment in Romans 13 and the Free-Market Economy	171	(34)
Monya A. Stubbs
Response: A Subversive Reading of Paul	198	(7)
Kathy Ehrensperger
Part 3 ASIA
Reading Romans in Southeast Asia: Righteousness and its Implications for the Christian Community and Other Faith Communities	205	(29)
Daniel C. Arichea, Jr.
Response: ``Quasi-Lutheran'' Considerations	225	(9)
Douglas A. Campbell
Ek Pisteos Eis Pistin and the Filipinos' Sense of Indebtedness (Utang Na Loob)	234	(25)
Enriquez Velunta
Response: A Postmodern Critique	256	(3)
Troy A. Martin
Messianic Predestination in Romans 8 and Classical Confucianism	259	(36)
Yeo Khiok-khng
Response: Cultural Studies and Intersubjective Work	290	(5)
Brian K. Blount
Conclusion: Charting the Course and Steering the Ship	295	(8)
Charles H. Cosgrove
Contributors	303	(4)
Index of Scriptural References	307	(5)
Index of Authors	312	(5)
Index of Subjects	317