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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...

While Lindemann and Schnelle may correctly observe both Paul’s insistence on freedom from the law and the paucity of direct citations from the Old Testament in ethical discourse as evidence that the law is not a source of moral guidance, their argument fails to recognize that Paul’s appeal to the Old Testament is not limited to specific citations. Indeed, Hellenistic Jewish literature frequently appealed to the contents of the law without specific citation, as I will demonstrate in chapter 1. Nor
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