Christian Pride: Boasting as a Condition of Hope in Romans 5:1-11
(2025) ROMANS 5 BETWEEN EXEGESIS AND THEOLOGY — ISBN: [978-2-88981-059-8], p. 103-125, published
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- On the threshold of the second section of the epistle to the Romans (Rom 5-8), Paul exhorts his correspondents to boast in the hope of glory (Rom 5:2), to boast in trials (Rom 5:3) and finally to boast in God himself (Rom 5:11). What kind of boasting (kaucháomai) is Paul talking about? In order to understand this singular emphasis of Pauline exhortation, at a strategic point in his argument in the Epistle to the Romans, it seems useful to situate the sequence in which this curious invitation is inserted and, step by step, to try to shed light on it by letting it resonate in the Pauline and, more broadly, biblical corpus. The aim of this study is to examine the meaning and function of "pride" in Romans 5:1-11 in the argumentative dynamic of the epistle to the Romans, based on the resonances of this notion in Paul's theology and its biblical background. By way of conclusion, we shall show the theological, anthropological and ecclesiological significance of such Christian pride for today.
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Bourgine, B. (2025). Christian Pride: Boasting as a Condition of Hope in Romans 5:1-11. In Andreas Dettwiller; Florence Draguet (ed.), ROMANS 5 BETWEEN EXEGESIS AND THEOLOGY (academic press, p. p. 103-125). academic press. https://doi.org/10.55132/rbet142