*The introduction of the sermon was not recorded, sadly. Where the recording begins is with some crowd sourcing done through Twitter, in which I asked people to summarize Romans in a single tweet, in order to show how Romans is complicated and we have to see the big picture of Paul’s purpose in order to understand why ch. 4 is so important.*

Sources:

Brendan Byrne, S.J. Romans (SP). Collegville: Liturgical Press, 1996.

James D.G. Dunn. Romans 1-8 (WBC). Milton Keynes: Word Inc, 1988.

Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Romans (AB). New Haven: Yale, 1993.

Arland J. Hultgren. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

Richard N. Longenecker. The Epistle to the Romans (NIGTC). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.