The deliverance of God : an apocalyptic rereading of justification in Paul /

This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation, pushing beyond both "Lutheran" and "New" perspectives on Paul to a non-contractual, "apocalyptic" reading of many of the apostle's most famous, and most troublesome, texts. His strongly antithet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Douglas A. (Douglas Atchison), 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Justification theory, and its implications. The heart of the matter: the justification theory of salvation
  • Intrinsic difficulties
  • Systematic difficulties
  • The question of Judaism
  • The question of conversion
  • Beyond old and new perspectives
  • pt. 2. Some hermeneutical clarifications. The recognition of a discourse
  • Distortions: the church-historical pedigree
  • Dangers: the modern European pedigree
  • pt. 3. The conventional reading, and its problems. A mighty fortress: justification theory's textual base
  • Feet of clay
  • Wide and narrow paths
  • pt. 4. A rhetorical and apocalyptic rereading. Rereading the frame
  • Rereading Romans 1:18-3:20: Indictment reconsidered
  • Faith and syntax in 1:16-17 and 3:21-26
  • Atonement and "justification" in 3:21-26
  • The deliverance of God, and its rhetorical implications
  • Rereading Romans 3:27-4:25: our forefather reconsidered
  • pt. 5. Rereading the heartland. Rereading the rest of Romans
  • Rereading the heartland: Galatians
  • Rereading the heartland: Philippians and beyond.