The Letter to the Romans and the issue of immigration

Abstract

Throughout the history of Christianity, great intelligences have focused on the Letter to the Romans. It is enough to recall here the famous readings of Augustine (5th century), which sees in the Letter a confirmation of his doctrine of original sin (Romans 5), by Anselm of Canterbury (11th century), who sees in it the doctrine of Christ's sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind (Romans 3,21-26) and Luther (16th century), which is based on it to affirm that the righteous is justified by faith (Romans 1,17) and to fight against a church based on indugences, pilgrimage and devotions. Certainly, these historical readings cannot be ruled out, but even so, it is good to be aware of the fact that they are mostly based on out-of-context  reading. You remove a phrase or sometimes an expression or even a word, and in this way one tries to focus on a certain contemporary problem of the commentator, without paying due attention to the contemporaneity and intentionality proper to the author of Romans.