Loading…

The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation today, pushing beyond both Lutheran and “New” perspectives on Paul to a non-contractual, “apocalyptic” reading of many of the apostle’s most famous—and most troublesome—texts. In The Deliverance of God, Douglas Campbell holds that the intrusion of an alien, essentially modern, and theologically unhealthy theoretical construct...

for the specific provenance of this particular letter is sought. In essence, to read abstractly and generally if not universally is necessarily to read noncircumstantially, so it seems no coincidence that such doubt over the exact circumstances surrounding the composition of Romans exists. Now it may simply be the case that Paul composed Romans in this fashion. But if the conventional construal is incorrect in perceiving a universal soteriological discourse where Paul did not intend one,16 this approach
Page 6
Buy this book at Logos.com