Romans Annual Bible Study: The Letter that Changed Christian History Teaching Guide
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Phoebe, a deacon from the Cenchrea church, trudged up the streets of Rome, looking for the house of the well-known Christian leaders Priscilla and Aquila. She had agreed to deliver a letter to the church in Rome on Paul's behalf while there on business. After nearly an 800-mile journey from Corinth, Greece, Phoebe had arrived in the mighty seat of the Roman Empire holding nothing less than what would become one of the mightiest books of the canon.
What was so urgent that Paul needed to write to the Christians in Rome? On the one hand, Paul was laying the groundwork for his upcoming visit as well as preparing his readers for future requests to help in his church-planting efforts. After leaving Corinth, Paul planned to travel east to Jerusalem and then reverse course and head west to Spain. On the way to Spain, he would stop in Rome to meet the Christians there and seek their help for the Spanish mission.
This was not the only reason, however. If Paul simply wanted to send greetings and alert the Roman church that he would like their help in future missions efforts, he didn't need to compose such a magnum opus. Why did he do it? What was the purpose of this massive theological treatise? Why did he choose this letter to explain his theology more fully than he did anywhere else? What does this theological book have to say to us today?
These are the ultimate questions of Romans, written by the Apostle to the Gentiles in the greatest Gentile city of the day.
- Title: Romans: The Letter that Changed Christian History (Teaching Guide)
- Author: Mark J. Olson
- Series: Annual Bible Study
- Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 142
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Romans › Study and teaching
- ISBNs: 9781641735469, 1641735465
- Resource ID: LLS:ABS66ROTG
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-07T16:05:22Z