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Moral Formation according to Paul: The Context and Coherence of Pauline Ethics is unavailable, but you can change that!

This fresh treatment of Paul’s ethics addresses this question: How, according to Paul, can Christian communities know how God wants them to live? Leading biblical scholar James Thompson explains that Paul offers a coherent moral vision based not only on Christ’s story but also on the norms of the law. Paul did not live with a sharp dichotomy of law and Gospel, and he recognized the continuing...

In Pastoral Ministry according to Paul I argued that moral formation was the goal of Paul’s missionary work among his churches. His work as a missionary was never complete, for his ambition was to present “blameless” churches to God at the parousia (cf. 2 Cor. 1:14; 11:1–4; 1 Thess. 3:13). Both the results of the earlier book and the contemporary conversation about spiritual formation have left unanswered questions that I will explore in the following pages. What is formation in actual practice?
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