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Krister Stendahl offers a provocative and compelling reading of Paul’s letter to the Romans, the “final account” of the major themes of Paul’s theology. Among these are the conceptual underpinnings of Paul’s mission, the grand divine plan for the mending of creation, the redemption of Israel, the mystery of the inclusion of the Gentiles, and the relation of the “macro” to the “micro” in Paul’s...

Jaroslav Pelikan As Krister Stendahl says in the preface to this slender but potent volume, we have been friends for over four decades, sometimes seeing each other quite often and sometimes not for years, but always being able to pick up the conversation almost at midsentence, even though he was at Harvard and I at Yale. Repeatedly, that conversation dealt with the themes that sound and resound here—the relation of the two Testaments, the counterpoint between Scripture and Tradition, the
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