Why God’s Justice Is Good News: God’s Generosity, Impartiality, and Equity in Romans.
God’s “justice†(δικαιοσύνη) is a key theme in the Letter to the Romans, associated with divine judgment of sin and with God’s salvation of sinners. These two aspects of divine justice are difficult to synthesize, and scholarship tends toward narrow definitions of “justice†either as necessa...
| Publicado en: | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 87; no. 3; pp. 482 - 502 |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
Jul2025
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