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$\"NTWright.jpg\"$ <\/span> The issue in the debate about the new perspective is how best to read the apostle Paul\u2019s theology in its historical context, and one of the more important debates is how to read Galatians \u2026 and we finish the 5th chp today of Tom Wright\u2019s new book, Justification: God\u2019s Plan & Paul\u2019s Vision<\/a> $\"\"$
\n<\/strong><\/em> where he discusses how to read Galatians.<\/p>\n

What is the point of having the Torah after all? Wright about Galatians 4: \u201cThis is perhaps the fiercest thing he ever says about Torah: that because it was God\u2019s gift to Israel for the time of slavery \u2026 it functioned for Israel as the tutelary deities of the nations had functioned, to keep them in check prior to the coming full disclosure of God\u2019s purpose and nature\u201d (137). And the agitators were tempting the Galatians to treat the Torah now as an ethinc tutelary deity! Strong stuff, indeed.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nWhen one normally hears Paul speak of \u201cslavery,\u201d how is that understood? Is it not most often understood as personal shackles to our sinful nature? How does Paul speak here of slavery? Wright has some ideas\u2026<\/p>\n

Galatians 4:1-7, and here Wright shows the significance of reading
\nterms in the narrative context of the whole Bible, gives the Galatians
\ntwo options: return to the slavery of Egypt or move forward into
\nfreedom. The slavery of Egypt is to return to the Torah\u2019s badges and,
\nat the same time, to reject Christ as the representative Israelite. (I
\ndon\u2019t think enough appreciate the profound christological centrality of
\nthis view of Wright\u2019s, and it fits in very nicely with the early
\nChristian theory of recapitulation.)<\/p>\n

Further, in Galatians 5:5-6
\nPaul speaks of the hope of righteousness because, for Paul,
\njustification was an eschatological reality. In the meantime \u2014 between
\nnow and then \u2014 we are to be known by \u201cfaith working through love.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"