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Conversion in Luke and Paul: An Exegetical and Theological Exploration is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study explores the conversion theologies of Luke and Paul. For Luke and Paul, conversion played an important role in the early Christian experience. Morlan offers a fresh look into how they interpreted this phenomenon. Morlan traverses key texts in the Lukan and Pauline corpus equipped with three theological questions. What is the change involved in this conversion? Why is conversion...

At this point we can answer our three theological questions posed in Chapter 1. As we discovered in Chapter 7 the change for Paul in conversion was not understood as a traditional ‘return’ to God. We argued that Paul’s use of repentance in Rom. 2 was a tool to show that this means of restoration with God was no longer viable. Paul wanted to bring his readers to despair by taking away the normal means of conversion—repentance.
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