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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...

of difficult interpretative dynamics. Unless these are appreciated clearly and then negotiated, any expectations of forward interpretative movement will be sorely disappointed. Hence, in my view it will be largely pointless, despite our suspicions and the interpretative problems that seem evident in Paul, to proceed directly to exegesis; this would be to advance blindly into thoroughly prepared positions—a suicidal interpretative prospect. The various potentially distorting interpretative dynamics
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