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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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.