Navigating Romans through Cultures (2004 Yeo), edited volume

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Navigating Romans through Cultures: Challenging Readings by Charting a New Course (2004) is a volume edited by Khiok-Khng Yeo.

Abstract

"Navigating Romans Through Cultures contains eight chapters of critical and contextualized readings of Paul's letter to the Romans by scholars from Europe, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia. It provides an interpretive voyage into how the gospel of Paul, as contained in his letter to the Romans, fulfills its original vision of "making known the gospel of Christ in all nations" (Rom 16:26). The challenge of the contributors is to express Paul's gospel in terms of their own cultures ... The book is the latest installment in the Romans Through History and Culture series, edited by Daniel Patte and Cristina Grenholm. This journey around the world took no less than four years. Each contributor is familiar with the culture they worked with, since many lived in that culture. Each "travel-log" is not just a report of how we steer the ship (letter to the Romans) through the water of a particular culture (or a sea of cultures for many of us); it is also a life changing critical reflection on our reading and interpretative process. Thus charting a new course involves more than offering new ways of reading Romans; it also involves clarifying the rationales for this new reading, in the light of the contextual, analytical, and hermeneutical frames of Scripture Criticism ... In their challenging readings of Romans, the contributors have wrestled with an understanding of culture; the cultural background and mission of Paul; cultural and theological conflicts in the letter of Paul to the Romans; cultural interpretations of Paul; and navigating equipments in steering Romans through cultures. Contributors include Florin T. Cimpean; Herold O. Weiss; Jonathan A. Draper; Gerald O. West; Mark D. Baker; J. Ross Wagner; James D. G. Dunn; Juan Escarfuller; Elsa Tamez; Monya A. Stubbs; Kathy Ehrensperger; Daniel C. Arichea, Jr; Douglas A. Campbell; Revelation Enriquez Velunt; Troy A. Martin; Brian K. Blount; Charles H. Cosgrove; K.K. Yeo."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2004.

Contents

Part 1 -- Europe and Africa: From margins to center.

• Pentecostal and Orthodox readings of Romans 8 in Romania / Florin T. Cimpean
  • Response: Centrality of the spirit / Herold Weiss

• A "frontier" reading of Romans: the case of Bishop John William Colenso (1814-1883) / Jonathan A. Draper
  • Response: Comparative and reception paradigms / Gerald O. West

Part 2 -- Latin America and North America.

• The righteousness of God and Hurricane Mitch: reading Romans in hurricane-devastated Honduras / Mark D. Baker and J. Ross Wagner
  • Response: A radical and holistic reading / James D.G. Dunn

• Repudiating assimilation in reading Romans 9-11: a Latino theologian locates his cultural-religious hybridity / Juan Escarfuller
  • Response: Our struggle as mestizos / Elsa Tamez

• Subjection, reflection, resistance: an African American reading of the three-dimensional process of empowerment in Romans 13 and the free-market economy / Monya A. Stubbs
  • Response: A subversive reading of Paul / Kathy Ehrensperger

Part 3 -- Asia.

• Reading Romans in Southeast Asia: righteousness and its implications for the Christian community and other faith communities / Daniel C. Arichea, Jr.
  • Response: "Quasi-Lutheran" considerations / Douglas A. Campbell

• Ek pisteôs eis pistin and the Filipinos' sense of indebtedness (utang na loob) / Revelation Enriquez Velunta
  • Response: A postmodern critique / Troy A. Martin

• Messianic predestination in Romans 8 and classical Confucianism / Yeo Khiok-khng (K.K.)
  • Response: Cultural studies and intersubjective work / Brian K. Blount

• Conclusion: Charting the course and steering the ship / Charles H. Cosgrove

External links

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