Publication Date
Spring 4-2021
School
School of Divinity
Major
Religion: Biblical Studies
Keywords
Election, Romans, Romans 9, Romans 9-11, Israel, Paul, Pauline, Rome, Predestination, Dispensationalism, Covenant, Theology
Disciplines
Biblical Studies
Recommended Citation
Lee, Colton, "Election and Israel: Following Paul’s Thought Through Romans 9-11" (2021). Senior Honors Theses. 1064.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/honors/1064
Abstract
Paul’s dealings with Israel in Romans 9-11 have long been viewed as some of the most theologically controversial teachings in the New Testament. Throughout these three critical chapters located in the middle of his greatest theological treatise, Paul teaches both on the doctrine of individual election and on the future of ethnic Israel. In this paper, the text will be approached using the discipline of biblical theology with the hope of interpreting the text using a literal hermeneutic with the whole of Scripture in mind. The doctrine of unconditional individual election will be affirmed by this research, and both a progressive covenantal and dispensationalist understanding of Israel’s national future will be presented separately.
