Dr. Calvin J. Roetzel -
Romans: A Letter for Today
Calvin Roetzel, one of five children, grew up on a farm near Russell Arkansas, where he attended a one-room school. He graduated from Hendrix College and the Perkins School of Theology, was ordained an elder of the United Methodist Church and served for ten years as a minister. Since earning his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1969, he has been a professor at Macalester College. He has also studied in Israel at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, and at Oxford University.
Calvin Roetzel and his wife, Caroline, have three children. Lisa is on the staff of the University of California (Irvine), Mary works for the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts, and Frank is a pipe fitter for the gas company in Seattle.
Dr. Roetzel is an internationally known scholar of Paul. His work, The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Context (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991), has been widely used b y undergraduate seminary students and inquiring laity. It has been called a masterly summary of the present state of Paul study, " ... generous, judicious, and engaged." His most recent book, Paul: The an and the Myth (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998) was chosen by the Biblical Archaeological Society as the "New Testament Book of the Year," in 1999. Dr. Roetzel is currently writing a commentary on Romans.
