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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...

of motivations in his exhortations. Nor does Bultmann acknowledge the corporate nature of Paul’s instructions and the role of specific moral duties. Thus this dialectic is inadequate for demonstrating the coherence of Paul’s moral instruction. Second, Paul insists that believers conduct themselves “worthily of the gospel” (Phil. 1:27), but he gives no comprehensive ethical theory to guide their conduct. Although ethical lists appear in 1 and 2 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5:10; 6:9–10; 2 Cor. 12:20), Galatians
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