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The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters is a one-of-a-kind reference work. Following the format of its highly successful companion volume, the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, this Dictionary is designed to bring students, teachers, ministers and laypeople abreast of the established conclusions and significant recent developments in Pauline scholarship. No other single reference works...

. Paul can describe the individual’s salvation as already begun but not yet complete. Is it then certain to be completed? The question becomes acute in the face of obstacles posed by evil forces now at work against God’s purposes, by persecution and temptation which threaten to break continuity in salvation, and by the prospect of the last judgment. The question of the certainty of believers’ final salvation depends in part on whether salvation is wholly God’s work or whether human beings