
Chris Tilling – Barth on Romans (Part 1)
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The Imposition of a Theological System on Romans 1313
Bart uses the text as a launchpad to create various theological meditations, that bear little resemblance to Paul's concerns in the letter. He regularly salts his argument with references to Job and Ecclesiastes to help establish his basic starting point of divine uviness. But are these concerns internal to Paul? And if not, should they control his exegesis as they do? For more on this, refer to Francis Watson's recent, if extremely uneven article on Bart, rewriting Romans.
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