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According to the author, “Until now Paul’s theology has been treated in exegetical literature almost exclusively as a systematic whole. Here, by contrast, the attempt is made to show how Paul’s theology can be adequately understood only when it is seen in relation to its development. There is a decisive process of theological development between Galatians and Romans which in turn must be related...

Did Paul undergo a development in his understanding of the Law? This question is not new. As early as 1850, Albrecht Ritschl had pointed out, in the first edition of his monograph, Die Entstehung der altkatholischen Kirche,1 that the two conceptions of the Law in Galatians and Romans were not entirely compatible with each other—did not wholly tally: in Galatians Paul equated elements of the Law with paganism, the governing factor being the dominant concern for the ceremonial
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