Morality, Not Mortality : Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5â"8 - William Horst

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Morality, Not Mortality

Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5â"8

By: William Horst

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Hardcover | 28 June 2022

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This study argues that the language of âdeathâ as a present human plight in Romans 5â"8 is best understood against the background of Hellenistic moral-psychological discourse, in which âdeathâ refers to a state of moral bondage in which a personâs rational will is dominated by passions associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a cosmic power called âDeath,â that entered the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve in Eden. Moral death was imposed on humanity as a judgment against this initial transgression, in order to increase sinful behavior, which ultimately serves to increase the magnitude of the glorious revelation of Godâs grace through Jesus Christ. Likewise, creationâs subjection to âcorruptionâ and âfutilityâ in Romans 8 involves the detrimental effects of human moral corruption, not the physical corruption of death and decay. Ultimately, the plight on which Paul focuses much of his attention throughout Rom 5â"8 is a matter of morality, not mortality.

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A wonderful example of how to pay strict attention to what Paul wrote, in the context of his time and place. This context includes the Greek world of philosophy and psychology, according to which enslavement to passions was considered a kind of death. Under Horst's guidance, we see that this was the consequence of Adam's sin that Christ came to remedy, not the reversal of bodily mortality.

-- Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles

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