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outlaw justice Cultural Memory in the Present Hent de Vries, Editor OUTLAW JUSTICE The Messianic Politics of Paul Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. stanford university press stanford, california Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jennings, Theodore W., author. Outlaw justice : the Messianic politics of Paul / Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. pages cm. — (Cultural memory in the present) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-8516-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-8517-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Bible. N.T. Romans—Philosophy. 2. Paul, the Apostle, Saint—Political and social views. 3. Justice—Biblical teaching. 4. Justice (Philosophy) I. Title. II. Series: Cultural memory in the present. BS2665.6.J8J456 2013 227’.106—dc23 2012033120 ISBN 978-0-8047-8599-0 (electronic) Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Getting Ready to Read Romans 1 First Part of Romans 13 1. Making Connections (1:1–17), 13 First Phase: The Unjust Social Order (1:18–3:20) 30 2. The Critique of Pagan Injustice (1:18–2:5), 30— 3. Transition: The Impartiality of Divine Justice (2:6–16), 44—4. The Critique of the Polity of Israel (2:17–3:20), 50 Second Phase: The Coming of Messianic Justice (3:21–5:21) 59 5. Justice Outside the Law (3:21–31), 60—6. The Justice of Abraham (4:1–25), 70—7. Messianic Justice (4:25–5:11), 80—8. How Much More: The Adamic and the Messianic (5:12–21), 88 Third Phase A: Before and After (6:1–7:6) 99 9. Living After Dying (6:2–11), 100—10. Partial Analogies (6:12–7:6), 105 Third Phase B: The Great Transition (7:7–8:39) 111 11. Death and the Law (7:7–25), 111—12. The Spirit and Life (8:1–17), 121—13. Affliction and Solidarity (8:18–39), 130 viii Contents Fourth Phase: Divine Promise and Improvisation (9:1–11:36) 139 14. Has the Promise Failed? (9:1–29), 140—15. The History of Justice (9:30–10:4), 152—16. Speaking and Hearing: How Justice Comes (10:5–21), 155—17. The Redemption of (All) Israel (11:1–12), 161—18. Warning to the Nations (11:12–24), 166—19. Eucatastrophe (11:25–36), 172 Fifth Phase: The Corporate Improvisation of Justice in the Now-Time (12:1–15:13) 176 20. The Messianic Body (12:1–13), 178—21. Overcome Evil with Good (12:14–13:7), 186—22. After the Law (13:8–14), 194—23. Welcome: The Messianic Sociality (14:1–15:13), 200 Coda 215 24. Paul’s Messianic Mission (15:14–33), 215—25. Traces of the New Sociality (16:1–27), 222 Bibliography 233 Index 239 Acknowledgments I was initiated into the complexities and pleasures of reading Paul by Hendrikus Boers, with whom over the course of forty years I had the pleasure of long-night conversations about Paul, and Romans in particu- lar. It was with him that I learned the challenges of a “humanistic” inter- pretation of the New Testament (even though our theological perspectives were quite different). The first fruit of that interest was my book Reading Derrida / Thinking Paul: On Justice, which interrupted work on the cur- rent project and also reoriented it. The former book was published before Hendrik’s untimely death. This book could not have been written without the critical and enthusiastic engagement of many students in seminars on Romans begin- ning in Mexico in 1984 and continuing for many years at the Chicago Theological Seminary. In addition, students in my seminars that engaged contemporary continental philosophy have made many important contri- butions. I am as always grateful to them and for them. I am grateful to Adam Kotsko, who graciously agreed to cast his expert eye over the manuscript, to the anonymous readers for the Press who made several helpful suggestions, and to the editors at Stanford, Emily-Jane Cohen and Hent de Vries, who encouraged the publication of this book. Tim Roberts and the editorial team have made invaluable contributions to the readability of this book. The book is dedicated to all those I have been privileged to meet in many parts of the world who are engaged in the struggle for a new society, a democracy to come perhaps, in which exclusion and exploitation are ended and all enter into the messianic radiance.

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