Bible – NT – Paul

April 2018

April 13, 2018
N.T. Wright recognizes that the message of imminent judgment is central to the mission and...
April 10, 2018
This summary of Wright’s views on justification is taken from passages in his 2006 Paul in...

February 2018

February 13, 2018
One Corinthians 13-14 includes a cluster of musical metaphors. Paul compares the tongue-speaking of the...

July 2017

July 11, 2017
What is the Spirit’s role in justification—the justification of Jesus and of sinners? In Protestant...
July 10, 2017
According to Romans 6:7, justification is God's liberating judgment that delivers the baptized from sin, death,...

June 2016

June 15, 2016
Speaking at a recent conference at Trinity School of Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Michael Gorman...

April 2016

April 14, 2016
Patrick Gray's Paul as a Problem in History and Culture is a wide-ranging study of...

February 2016

February 04, 2016
Michael Gorman (Becoming the Gospel) points out what Richard Hays has called the “deft word-play”...

October 2015

October 29, 2015
Stephen Turley ends The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age by elaborating the point made...
October 07, 2015
Wesley Hill argues in Paul and the Trinity that recent discussions of Pauline christology are locked...

September 2015

September 17, 2015
In his recent Paul & the Gift, John Barclay arrestingly translates the Greek phrase to euaggelion...
September 17, 2015
At the heart of John Barclay's treatment of Paul & the Gift is the claim that...
September 17, 2015
“To be ‘righteous,” writes John Barclay (Paul & the Gift), “does not mean to be...

August 2015

August 06, 2015
Karin Neutel's A Cosmopolitan Ideal is a detailed contextual study of Paul's declaration that in Christ...
August 03, 2015
Eugene Boring reviews Herman Waetjen's Letter to the Romans in the Review of Biblical Literature (July...

July 2015

July 15, 2015
The confusion about marriage in contemporary America is profound. It's a confusion about the very...

June 2015

June 15, 2015
Simon Gathercole (Defending Substitution) finds a common theme running through alternatives to substitutionary conceptions of...

May 2015

May 12, 2015
In his study of The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul,...

April 2015

April 08, 2015
In his Beginnings of Judaism, Shaye Cohen devotes a chapter to ancient usages of the meaning...

February 2015

February 16, 2015
Scot Hafemann has recently published a collection of previously published essays on Pauline themes, Paul’s Message...

December 2014

December 24, 2014
In his commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Romans (60-1), Peter Stuhlmacher argues that Paul’s use...
December 16, 2014
Paul continues to use the language of purity and impurity, but it seems radically altered...
December 11, 2014
I have a great deal of sympathy with Jose Miranda’s claim (in Marx and the Bible)...
December 10, 2014
John Dunnill (Body and Sacrifice, 128-9) argues that for Paul baptism is more than a...
December 05, 2014
Paul’s offers this description of his experience at the end of Galatians 2: He died...

November 2014

November 26, 2014
Struggling to articulate the cosmic deliverance of Romans 8, Stanislas Breton (A Radical Philosophy of...
November 25, 2014
Theodore Jennings (Transforming Atonement, 158) observes that “what is visible on the grand scale of...
November 25, 2014
Markus Barth (Acquittal by Resurrection) sharply raises the question of the justice of God’s verdict...
November 24, 2014
“Christian life is an impossible newness given as an unfitting gift,” writes John Barclay in...
November 24, 2014
In a 2007 essay reprinted in his Pauline Perspectives, NT Wright gives this tight and quite...
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