“It is our good luck that, in Romans, we have a letter from him addressed to a community that he had not himself established: to introduce himself, he had to expand upon his gospel and his mission more fully than he had in the other correspondence that survives. As his messianic framing of Romans reveals, Paul linked his heavenly commission in the final days, his work in bringing gentiles to the worship of the true god (sic), immediately and intimately to his proclamation of Jesus as the scion of David’s house. To understand the apostle, then, we need to understand his Christology” - Paula Fredricksen, Paul, p136–137