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BOOK REVIEW: Into The Heart Of Romans: A Deep Dive Into Paul’s Greatest Letter

BY MATT BULLIMORE This is an opportunity to sit at the feet of a master exegete at work. As usual, Tom Wright, the popularist doppelgänger of the New Testament scholar N. T. Wright, is eminently readable and contagiously enthusiastic. Wright takes us through Romans 8 as a summary of the whole letter and of Paul’s theology more widely, and finds it to be about a call to become genuine human beings by being filled with God’s own life. The chapter is read as a recapitulation of the schema of Creation, Passover, Exodus, and Covenant. Not all scholars of Romans have been persuaded by the tidiness of this reading, but it is, none the less, compelling when set out in detail, and chimes with elements of patristic exegesis. Wright uses “platonism” as a shorthand for an earth/heaven dualism, but he would find allies in Christian Platonist writers who would also foreground recapitulation, the corporate dimension of salvation, and Paul’s synergism. Indeed, as Wright shows, Romans 8 is one of those

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