Paul's Letter To The Romans

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Paul’s letter to the Christian community in Rome is one of the most important theological documents ever written. Its influence on the Christian church has been enormous: Romans has decisively shaped the teaching of Augustine, Calvin, Luther and Wesley, to mention only a few. Yet the book of Romans is not a systematic theology but a letter written in specific historical circumstances. I hope we will understand it better if we understand those circumstances of the time, where gentiles were in majority in the Church, and had come to dominate both its leadership and theological tone. Also, Paul seems tp have sent mixed signals on the issue of the particular audience that he had in view as he wrote to the Romans.