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The Preservation And Restoration Of Creation With A Special Reference To Romans 8:18-23, Robert Neff
The Preservation And Restoration Of Creation With A Special Reference To Romans 8:18-23, Robert Neff
Doctor of Theology Dissertation
The topic dealt with in this dissertation is "The Preservation and Restoration of Creation." In dealing with this topic there is "A Special Reference to Rom. 8:18-23" since this passage, if any, is the "sedes doctrinae" of such a topic. To deal with this passage of Scripture in connection with the "Restoration of Creation" is not at all exotic or peripheral to the Gospel message. R. C. H. Lenski sees the teaching of this pericope as "the final result of justification by faith as it is depicted by Paul. This is the great consolation section ofRomans."1If the human body is …