Romans (IVP New Testament Commentary Series) [Hardcover]

Grant R. Osborne (Author)

Book Description

Series: IVP New Testament Commentary | Publication Date: January 16, 2004

Few individual books of the Bible have changed the course of church history the way Paul's letter to the Romans has. Whether one thinks of Augustine's coversion in the fourth century, Luther's recovery of justification by faith in the sixteenth or Barth's challenge to recover theological exegesis of the Bible in the twentieth, Romans has been the catalyst to personal spiritual renewal and the recapturing of gospel basics. Paul, in seeking to bring unity and understanding between Jews and Gentiles in Rome, sets forth in Romans his most profound explication of his gospel and its meaning for the church. The letter's relevance is as great today as it was in the first century. In Grant R. Osborne's careful study of Romans, readers will find an introduction that sets the letter in context and surveys its general content, highlighting issues surrounding its authorship, date, occasion and purpose. Passage-by-passage commentary follows that explains what the letter means to us today as well as what it meant for its original hearers. Students, pastors, Bible teachers and everyone who wants to understand Paul's message for the church will benefit from this excellent resource.

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About the Author

Grant R. Osborne (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He also serves as series editor for the IVP New Testament Commentary Series, for which he contributed the volume on Romans. He has also written on Revelation for the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 447 pages
• Publisher: IVP Academic (January 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830818065
• ISBN-13: 978-0830818068
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,063,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Grant R. Osborne (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1977. His areas of expertise include the Gospels, hermeneutics, and the book of Revelation. His numerous publications include The Hermeneutical Spiral and commentaries on Revelation, Romans, John, and Matthew.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent commentary, November 26, 2008

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Andrew T. E. Loke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Romans (IVP New Testament Commentary Series) (Hardcover)

This is an excellent commentary of Romans. Osborne interacts well with the Calvinistic perspective and makes a good exegetical defense of the Arminian perspective against Calvinism.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Commentary!, April 9, 2011

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Jeffrey Holton "Colpop.net" (Western, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Romans (IVP New Testament Commentary) (Paperback)

No other book of the Bible provides so complete a treatise on the gospel as Romans. For that reason, it has been at the center of personal and corporate spiritual awakening since its writing. Some of the greatest minds in Christianity have produced commentaries on it. Is there really need for another? That was Grant R. Osborne's question.

Osborne, who tackles Romans as part of the IVP New Testament Commentary Series (of which he is also the series editor) sought to find the balance between commentaries that are too technical for most pastors and laypersons and those that are too shallow and miss the meaning of the text. I think that he succeeded.

This commentary would be a helpful resource for anybody preaching through Romans or studying the book in their own personal life. Although I do believe the pastor would get more out of it than the average layperson. Even though it's not overly technical, it still leans more toward the academic side of Romans than the personal application side. (see full review at christianresourcereview.com)

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Concise and articulate, March 18, 2006

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G. Stoutenburg (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Romans (IVP New Testament Commentary Series) (Hardcover)

I bought this commentary because Osborne is an Arminian and I'm doing a presentation on Romans 9 (I'm a student at Moody Bible Institute). His explanation of Romans 9 is extremely well articulated and expressed excellently. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is because it isn't technical enough for my liking, but readability is the goal of the IVP NT series, not overwhelming technicality.