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Jesus cared for the least, but did Paul? The apostle Paul has a reputation for being detached from the concerns of the poor and powerless. In this book, Carla Swafford Works demonstrates that Paul’s message and ministry are in harmony with the teaching of Jesus. She brings to light an apostle who preaches and models good news to the “least of these”—the poor, the marginalized, the disadvantaged,...

of the inheritance? In short, what on earth has happened to the promise of land in Paul’s theology? And second, how does this promise relate to a non-Jewish people who have been vanquished by Rome and thus who find themselves landless? The land promises to Abraham, though reinterpreted by Paul, have by no means disappeared from Galatians or from Pauline theology. Rather, the promise of land finds its fulfillment in the hope of new creation—a creation that is not simply spiritualized, but is nothing
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