Divine-Human Relationship in Romans 1-8 in the Light of Interdependence Theory
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780567695772
Description: "Yoonjong Kim aims to analyse the divine-human relationship in Paul's theology, focusing on Paul's portrayal of the relationship in Romans 1-8. Kim stresses that previous studies of this relationship have not paid sufficient attention to the fact that it is not static, but rather exhibits progression and development towards a goal. To address the significance of the human agent's role in the relationship, Kim employs a social psychological theory - interdependence theory - offering a consistent analytic framework for diagnosing the interactions in a dyadic relationship in terms of the dependency created by each partner's expectations of outcomes"--