Final Account: Paul's Letter to the Romans

by Krister Stendahl

Krister Stendahl offers a provocative and compelling reading of Paul's letter to the Romans, the "final account" of the major themes of Paul's theology. Among these are the conceptual underpinnings of Paul's mission, the grand divine plan for the mending of creation, the redemption of Israel, the mystery of the inclusion of the Gentiles, and the relation of the "macro" to the "micro" in Paul's thought-and much more.

Genres: Religion

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 1995

About the author

Krister Stendahl was a Swedish theologian and New Testament scholar, Emeritus Bishop of Stockholm (Lutheran); Professor Emeritus, Harvard Divinity School. Stendahl is perhaps most famous for his publication of the article "The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West."

Stendahl received his doctorate in New Testament studies from Uppsala University with his dissertation The school of St. Matthew and its use of the Old Testament (1954). He was later Professor at the Divinity School at Harvard University, where he also served as dean, before being elected Bishop of Stockholm in 1984. Stendahl was the second director of the Center for Religious Pluralism at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. After retiring in 1989, he returned to the United States, and was Mellon Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the Harvard Divinity School. He also taught at Brandeis University. Bishop Stendahl was an honorary fellow of the Graduate Theological Foundation. (from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Keith Beasley-Topliffe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I fully expected that this would be a wonderful "what I have learned from a lifetime of reading and teaching and preaching on Paul's Letter to the Romans." Instead, it's a collection of talks given at various times and places on short sections of Romans, mostly for general audiences, and edited (with occasional overlaps) in a book that covers most of the epistle. And so it seemed cobbled rather than planned. Good, but still disappointing. So it goes.