To the Church in Rome

"This letter is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel . . . it seems that St. Paul, in writing this letter, wanted to compose a summary of the whole of Christian and evangelical teaching which would also be an introduction to the whole Old Testament." Martin Luther Romans is the Magna Carta of the human soul, the letter that converted Augustine and transformed Martin Luther. In this short epistle, Paul gives us the most complete and thorough description of the Gospel: sin, self-righteousness, the atonement, and forgiveness are nowhere more clearly proclaimed. In this commentary, Douglas Wilson shows how this letter holds together not as a miscellany but as a sustained argument and a defense of Paul's own ministry. At the center of it is the message that we are sinners who are unable to save ourselves by our own righteousness. But this commentary also shows how Paul works out the implications of that gospel for his readers, from the food they ate to the rulers they obeyed. This commentary will help you delight in the book of Romans"--