The Doxology and the Theological Program of Romans (original) (raw)

ETS Annual Meeting, 2022

Abstract

As a letter, Romans has a distinctive purpose, or purposes, we should say. These purposes limit the letter’s themes to those relevant to its circumstances, which we may call historically driven purposes. As Karl Donfried writes, “any study of Romans should proceed on the initial assumption that this letter was written by Paul to deal with a concrete situation in Rome. The support for such an assumption is the fact that every other authentic Pauline writing, without exception, is addressed to the specific situations of the churches or persons involved.”1 Moreover, as an epistle, the introduction and conclusion or ending of Romans have significant weight on the theological program of the letter appropriate to its historical circumstances. Therefore, establishing the concepts and motifs presented in the letter closing, especially the concluding doxology, will help us determine Paul’s theological program for the letter. Therefore, this paper has a two-fold aim: we need to determine the integrity and theological motifs of the Romans’ doxology. I’ll end by proposing how Paul’s theology expressed in the doxology is influenced by Isaianic motifs.

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