God and Israel

John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost consciously seeks to "justify the ways of God to men." The Apostle Paul’s magisterial letter to the Romans does not so much intend to defend God’s ways as to declare God’s Word--a Word made public in the gospel. In Romans 9-11 this declaration occurs within the context of God’s troubled relationship with Israel, both past and future.   God and Israel traces the ways in which providence and purpose are realized as God’s Word