returned to its true function of being ‘holy, just, and good’. The Christian is admonished not to behave in ‘lawlessness’ (anomia), without the law (Rom. 2:14), but according to the law of Christ, which has always been the will of God (cf. Rom. 10:18 citing Ps. 19:4). One of the important theological contributions of W. Schrage, first in his dissertation (Die konkreten Einzelgebote, 1961), and then in his The Ethics of the New Testament, is his insistence that Pauline ethics has been consistently
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