TY - JOUR AU - Eastman, Susan PY - 2022/04/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Christian Experience and Paul’s Logic of Solidarity: the Spiral Structure of Romans 5–8 JF - The Biblical Annals JA - ba VL - 12 IS - 2 SE - New Testament DO - 10.31743/biban.13513 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ba/article/view/13513 SP - 233-253 AB - <p>This essay investigates key aspects of the rhetorical structure of Romans 5–8 in relationship to Paul’s depictions of Christian experience. Taking Romans 5:1–5 as a blueprint for a trajectory of hope in chapters 5–8, I discuss three textual “detours” where Paul interrupts that trajectory: a rhetorical performance of life under sin (7:7–25), a depiction of union with all creation in suffering and hope (8:18–27), and a cry of lament (8:26). These rhetorical interruptions evoke Christian experience in solidarity with all creation - a solidarity that in turn displays Christ’s redemptive participation in the depths of all human dereliction, and thereby evokes hope.</p> ER -