On 9th December 2019 the SCD Press published the first volume in the Occasional Series titled, Romans and the legacy of St Paul: Historical, Theological, and Social Perspectives. The editors of the book are Associate Professor Peter Bolt, Academic Director and Professor James Harrison, Research Director.

This book, arising from the papers delivered at the 2016 Sydney College of Divinity Annual Conference, explores in an ecumenical context the legacy of Romans from a variety of perspectives (ecumenical, historical, exegetical, social, and philosophical). Part 1 explores the imperial and Jewish apocalyptic context. In Part 2 a series of traditional exegetical studies look afresh at well-explored themes of Romans in the history of the epistle’s interpretation. Part 3 examines two aspects of the social legacy of Romans, one contemporary, one ancient. The two studies on Romans 16 in Part 4 confront the thorny issue of the book’s particularity. Part 5 locates Romans in a broad sweep of interpretation spanning select Romans exegetes across the ages. Finally, in Part 6, a contemporary female Gospels scholar presents a personal reflection on what it was like for her as a Roman Catholic to grapple seriously for the first time with the feared ‘Protestant epistle’.