Abstract:With its reflection on God's love for Christians amidst life crises, Romans 8:35–39 ranks among the most loved of Pauline writings. This study reads Romans 8:35–39 in the context of its existential and psychological implications for Igbo Christianity. The study adopts a lexical exegetical approach and considers aspects of the psychological theory of religious coping in its reading of the pericope. In the study, it is contended that Romans 8:35–39 dealt with existential threats that threatened all first-century CE Christians (particularly those in Rome), and that its teachings were aimed at psychologically conditioning the minds of these Christians towards having a positive perception of existential threats through a belief in the love of God. This interpretation holds promise for Igbo Christianity, where the combination of life crises and spirit-world paranoia has had a negative impact on Igbo Christians' view of human existence. Romans 8:35–39 teaches Christians the need for having a positive perception of life crises, notwithstanding a belief in the reality of the activities of the spirit world; God's love is always enough to pull Christians through life crises.

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伊博基督教语境下罗马书 8:35-39 的存在主义心理解读

摘要：罗马书 8:35-39 反映了上帝在生命危机中对基督徒的爱，是保罗最受喜爱的著作之一。本研究在罗马书 8:35-39 对伊博基督教的存在和心理影响的背景下阅读。该研究采用词汇释经方法，并在阅读《圣经》时考虑了宗教应对心理学理论的各个方面。在这项研究中，有人认为罗马书 8:35-39 处理了威胁到公元一世纪所有基督徒（尤其是罗马的基督徒）的生存威胁，并且其教义旨在从心理上调节这些基督徒的思想，使其拥有一个通过相信上帝的爱，对存在威胁的积极看法。这种解释为伊博基督教带来了希望，生活危机和精神世界偏执的结合对伊博基督徒对人类生存的看法产生了负面影响。罗马书 8:35-39 教导基督徒需要对生活危机有积极的看法，尽管他们相信精神世界活动的真实性；上帝的爱总是足以带领基督徒渡过人生危机。