Author Last Name	North	Keywords	Christian Victory, theology
Book Title	Cooperation and Dominion	Pages	172
Subtitle	An Economic Commentary On Romans

Subject (Series)	Economic Commentary	View Cover	N/A
Year of Publication	2000	Hard/Soft Bound Versions	N/A
Edition	1st	Browser friendly version	This Book in HTML

Long Description	The epistle to the Romans deals with the issue of the traditional division between Jews and Greeks. It is concerned with healing divisions between groups of covenant-keepers. In discussing the basis of this healing, Paul provides answers to the wider social issues of knowledge, trade, and economic cooperation. The epistle to the Romans is generally known as a book about grace. Indeed, it is the premier book on grace. But it is a book about common grace as well as special grace. It raises the question of how God's common revelation to mankind serves only to condemn them all. This common revelation of God is held back in unrighteousness by Jew and gentile alike (Rom. 1:18-22). It is this active, willful suppression of the truth of God that God's special grace overcomes. This common revelation of what God requires of every person also condemns men, for all of them disobey it (Rom. 2:14-15). This is also overcome by special grace. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom. 6:23). Because Romans is about common grace, it is about cooperation: covenant-breakers with covenant-keepers. Because Romans is about special grace, it is about cooperation: Jews with Greeks in the church. Paul's model of the church as a body in chapter 12 can be used to describe the functioning of the economy. It is less a great machine than a great organism.
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