CHRISTIAN ORIGINS AND THE QUESTION OF GOD VOLUME 4
PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD
BOOK I
PARTS I AND II
BOOK II
PARTS III AND IV
N. T. WRIGHT
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
paul and the faithfulness of god
Parts I and II
Parts III and IV
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Copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2013
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Unless otherwise stated, quotations from the New Testament are either the author’s own translation or are taken from his The New Testament for Everyone (London: SPCK, 2011; published by HarperOne, San Francisco, as The Kingdom New Testament), while those from the Old Testament are either the author’s own translation or are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, reprinted by permission of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Three poems by Micheal O’Siadhail, from his collection Tongues (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2010) are reproduced by kind permission of the author and the publisher.
Some translations of Horace’s Odes are taken from Stuart Lyons, Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007), and are reproduced by kind permission of the author and the publisher.
Cover image: St. Paul. Detail of the vault mosaics, early Christian 5th–6th CE. Archbishop’s Palace,
Ravenna, Italy © Scala / Art Resource, NY
Cover design: Laurie Ingram
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
2-book set: ISBN 978-0-8006-2683-9
2-book set: eBook ISBN 978-1-4514-5234-1
a prince among exegetes
a jewel among friends
2 Like Birds Hovering Overhead: the Faithfulness of the God of Israel
3 Athene and Her Owl: the Wisdom of the Greeks
4 A Cock for Asclepius: ‘Religion’ and ‘Culture’ in Paul’s World
5 The Eagle Has Landed: Rome and the Challenge of Empire
Part II THE MINDSET OF THE APOSTLE
6 A Bird in the Hand? The Symbolic Praxis of Paul’s World
7 The Plot, the Plan and the Storied Worldview
8 Five Signposts to the Apostolic Mindset
Bibliography for Parts I and II
9 The One God of Israel, Freshly Revealed
10 The People of God, Freshly Reworked
11 God’s Future for the World, Freshly Imagined
12 The Lion and the Eagle: Paul in Caesar’s Empire
13 A Different Sacrifice: Paul and ‘Religion’
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About Paul and the Faithfulness of GodThis highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright’s magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime’s study, this landmark volume pays a rich tribute to the breadth and depth of the apostle’s vision, and offers an unparalleled wealth of detailed insights into his life, times, and enduring impact. Wright carefully explores the whole context of Paul’s thought and activity—Jewish, Greek, and Roman, cultural, philosophical, religious, and imperial—and shows how the apostle’s worldview and theology enabled him to engage with the many-sided complexities of first-century life that his churches were facing. Wright also provides close and illuminating readings of the letters and other primary sources, along with critical insights into the major twists and turns of exegetical and theological debate in the vast secondary literature. The result is a rounded and profoundly compelling account of the man who became the world’s first, and greatest, Christian theologian. |
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