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Reading Romans Right

READING ROMANS RIGHT

Format: Paperback, Electronic, Audio
Author: Keith Giles, Matthew J. Distefano
Category: Theology
Published: March 18, 2025

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Romans Re-Examined

For the longest time, Paul's Epistle to the Romans has been used to justify misogyny, homophobia, eternal conscious torment, and blind allegiance to the State. However, the truth is that the Apostle Paul never intended his letter to the Church in Rome to teach any of those things. That's why co-authors Keith Giles and Matthew J. Distefano have collaborated to correct these misunderstandings and illuminate the true meaning of Paul's theological masterpiece for today's Christian reader.

Leveraging the scholarship of a variety of Pauline scholars like Douglas A. Campbell, N.T. Wright, David Bentley Hart, Lucy Peppiatt, and others, Giles and Distefano masterfully move chapter-by-chapter through Romans to reveal Paul's original message to the Church in Rome—and to all of us—which is one of hope, freedom, and universal reconciliation for everyone, everywhere.

Endorsement

A cheeky resource of depth and wit

"The Apostle Paul was not, it is true, the clearest of writers at times, and his meaning in many places can be a topic of honest debate. But what is truly remarkable about his theological posterity is that so much of it has consisted in reading many of his clearest arguments utterly backwards. So it is always welcome when interpreters make the valiant effort, as Giles and Distefano have done here, to rescue him from his ‘Paulinist’ readers."

— David Bentley Hart