How Western readers miss the meaning of Paul’s letter—and how an Eastern perspective can correct the imbalance. For much of church history, Christians have brought Western cultural assumptions to ...
Because I had recently become a Christian, I enrolled in a New Testament studies course during my first year as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. Our guiding textbook was Bart Ehrman’s ...
It’s been called one of the most important and most misunderstood passages in the Bible: Romans 13:1-7. “The most historically influential paragraph Paul ever wrote,” in the words of one scholar.