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In what has become known as the New Perspective on Paul, Tom Wright has proposed a vision of the apostle’s central message that does full justice to all Paul’s letters. In particular, he focuses on the God-centered nature of Paul’s Gospel, arguing that “traditional” readings of Paul can suggest that the apostle’s message is simply about us: our sin, our justification, our salvation. Ambitious in...

and if so what account he gives of this phenomenon (is Paul contradicting scripture?), or whether, with Calvin, he sees the scriptural commands to lawkeeping and godliness as divinely given and intended, and not retracted? According to the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that he had not come to abolish the law but to fulfil it. A Calvinist will find that much easier to grasp than a Lutheran—though it would be interesting to hear an ‘old perspective’ expositor explain how Jesus’ brisk commands in
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