Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, "The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8."

A striking study, then, and well worth reading for an original and stimulating exposition of Romans. Those interested in the philosophical questions of emergentism will find it fascinating and provocative and themselves, on closing the book, with many more questions that they wish to ask.

• Introduction Chapter 1. s/Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification) Chapter 2. Emergence Chapter 3. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small Chapter 4. An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans Chapter 5. Sin, Gender, and Empire Chapter 6. Conclusions

Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, "The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8."

A striking study, then, and well worth reading for an original and stimulating exposition of Romans. Those interested in the philosophical questions of emergentism will find it fascinating and provocative and themselves, on closing the book, with many more questions that they wish to ask.

• Introduction Chapter 1. s/Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification) Chapter 2. Emergence Chapter 3. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small Chapter 4. An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans Chapter 5. Sin, Gender, and Empire Chapter 6. Conclusions

Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Life Worth Living Program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (New Testament) at Yale in 2014 and was a recipient of the 2015 Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation, "The Body of Sin: An Emergent Account of Sin as a Cosmic Power in Romans 5-8."

A striking study, then, and well worth reading for an original and stimulating exposition of Romans. Those interested in the philosophical questions of emergentism will find it fascinating and provocative and themselves, on closing the book, with many more questions that they wish to ask.

• Introduction Chapter 1. s/Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification) Chapter 2. Emergence Chapter 3. The Emergence of Persons Great and Small Chapter 4. An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans Chapter 5. Sin, Gender, and Empire Chapter 6. Conclusions