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Galatians is often read by Christians as being primarily concerned with the traditional doctrine of justification through faith, but it is also a text focused deeply on the political concerns of its specific historical moment. This commentary from N. T. Wright—the inaugural volume of the Commentaries for Christian Formation series—offers a theological interpretation of Galatians that puts that...

and new earth”?9 Suddenly the questions of the community, the church, and the surrounding political challenges reemerge, all the more striking for having been marginalized in much post-Reformation Christianity. We should not be surprised that Galatians got there ahead of us. The Reformation, in fact, was answering the wrong question. The medieval question drew the focus onto the individual and his or her ultimate “going to heaven,” with the traditionalists insisting that the way to go to heaven was
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