Jeremy Erb

“The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Romans 12–16 is lived theology, and Romans 1–11 is written to prop up that lived theology. Romans 12–16 is not the application of Paul’s theology, nor is Romans a classic example of the indicative leading to the imperative. What Paul had in focus was the lack of praxis, the lack of lived theology, the lack of peace in Rome, and he wrote Romans both to urge a new kind of lived theology (12–16) and to offer a rationale (1–11) for that praxis.”
― Scot McKnight, Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire