The Structure of Romans: The Argument of Paul's Letter

We increasingly recognize that Paul did not write his letter to the Romans primarily out of doctrinal concerns. Paul B. Fowler presses that insight home in this attentive, yet eminently readable, study of the letter's structure.

The principles of Fowler's reading are that rhetorical questions in Romans 311 structure the argument, not as responses to criticism but as Paul's careful guiding of the reader, and that these chapters, like the paraenesis in Romans 1215, address specific circumstanc...