Hey blogging world. I’m working on Romans 8 for a chapter right now, and I wanted to see what resources y’all liked particularly well. The three main areas I’m looking at are participation language (8.1-13), adoption (8.14-30), and being conformed to Christ (8.17-30). So, pretty much anything you think is good on the chapter would be helpful. Off the top of my head, Byrne’s work on ‘Sons of God’, Fee’s section on Romans 8 in GEP, and Osten-Sacken are main ones other than commentaries. Other ideas?
I’m almost done writing up my own thoughts on these issues, and then after I’ve got my thoughts sorted out, I’ll go interact with secondary stuff.
Monday, 28 July 2008 at 9:42 pm
How about Adopted into God’s Family by Trevor Burke? Its not long but its good.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 12:04 am
I like Paul Meyer’s “Word in this world”–it’s a collection of essays, but his grasp of the flow of Paul’s argument from beginning to end is excellent. His essay on Romans 7 is not to be missed (i know that’s not your focus) but his thoughts help to put ch 8 in perspective of flow of the argument
Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 11:55 am
You should interact w/ douglas campbell.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 6:33 pm
I would recommend Bruce Longenecker’s TRIUMPH book on Galatians because he repeated takes a sideways glance at Romans and especially the cosmological language in Romans 5-8.
Also, you might want to check out Kathy Grieb’s STORY book on Romans as she has some narratological views of 5-8.
You might want to contact Daniel Kirk because his resurrection in Romans stuff seems related (See his articles on ATLA)
And see
The redemption of our body : the riddle of Romans 8:19-22.Preview By: Michaels, J Ramsey. Source: Romans and the people of God, p 92-114. Grand Rapids : Eerdmans, 1999 Publication Type: Essay
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Romans 8:18-30: “suffering does not thwart the future glory”Preview By: Gieniusz, Andrzej. Atlanta Scholars Pr 1999 Publication Type: Book
LEt me know if you Inter-library loan Gieniusz because I would like to take a peak at it.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 6:39 pm
At the risk of self promotion, I wrote an article that touches on theosis in Rom 8:
“The Afterlife in Romans: Understanding Paul’s Glory Motif in Light of the Apocalypse of Moses and 2 Baruch,” in Manfred Lang and Michael Labhan (eds.), Lebendige Hoffnung – ewiger Tod?! Jenseitsvorstellungen im Hellenismus, Judentum und Christentum (Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte 24; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt: 2007), 201-33.
You can find it here: http://people.cedarville.edu/Employee/prestonsprinkle/research.html
But now that I think of it, we talked about this at ETS last year, didn’t we? Anyway, glad to hear your PhD is coming along!
Preston
Monday, 11 August 2008 at 8:05 pm
“Salvation Through Participation” An examination of the notion of the believers’ corporate unity with Christ in early Christian soteriology is a PhD thesis by Daniel G. Powers. He is now a professor at Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs.