Contents
Introduction: Getting Ready to Read Romans
1. Making Connections (1:1–17)
First Phase: The Unjust Social Order (1:18–3:20)
2. The Critique of Pagan Injustice (1:18–2:5)
3. Transition: The Impartiality of Divine Justice (2:6–16)
4. The Critique of the Polity of Israel (2:17–3:20)
Second Phase: The Coming of Messianic Justice (3:21–5:21)
5. Justice Outside the Law (3:21–31)
6. The Justice of Abraham (4:1–25)
7. Messianic Justice (4:25–5:11)
8. How Much More: The Adamic and the Messianic (5:12–21)
Third Phase A: Before and After (6:1–7:6)
9. Living After Dying (6:2–11)
10. Partial Analogies (6:12–7:6)
Third Phase B: The Great Transition (7:7–8:39)
11. Death and the Law (7:7–25)
12. The Spirit and Life (8:1–17)
13. Affliction and Solidarity (8:18–39)
Fourth Phase: Divine Promise and Improvisation (9:1–11:36)
14. Has the Promise Failed? (9:1–29)
15. The History of Justice (9:30–10:4)
16. Speaking and Hearing: How Justice Comes (10:5–21)
17. The Redemption of (All) Israel (11:1–12)
18. Warning to the Nations (11:12–24)
Fifth Phase: The Corporate Improvisation of Justice in the Now-Time (12:1–15:13)
20. The Messianic Body (12:1–13)
21. Overcome Evil with Good (12:14–13:7)
23. Welcome: The Messianic Sociality (14:1–15:13)
24. Paul’s Messianic Mission (15:14–33)