{"product_id":"abraham-as-spiritual-ancestor-a-postcolonial-zimbabwean-reading-of-romans-4-9789004181649","title":"Abraham as Spiritual Ancestor: A Postcolonial Zimbabwean Reading of Romans 4","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of \"all\" faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. Paul's epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE                                                ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                      INTRODUCTION                                      CHAPTER ONE: The Ancestor in Greco – Roman Culture: The Case of Aeneas                                       CHAPTER TWO: Abraham in Hellenistic – Jewish Context  CHAPTER THREE: The Shona Ancestral Cosmology  CHAPTER FOUR: Ancestry and Descendancy in Romans  CONCLUSION:  An Integrative Cross – Cultural Hermeneutic: Implications and Limitations  BIBLIOGRAPHY  INDEX","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210616856919,"sku":"9789004181649","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/abraham-as-spiritual-ancestor-a-postcolonial-zimbabwean-reading-of-romans-4-9789004181649","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}