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Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul’s Theology of Justification is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the time of the Reformation, considerable attention has been given to the theme of justification in the thought of the apostle Paul. The ground-breaking work of E.P. Sanders in Paul and Palestinian Judaism, published in 1977, introduced the “new perspective on Paul,” provoking an ongoing debate which is now dominated by major protagonists. Foundational theological issues are at stake. Mark...

power.48 In context Paul narrates in considerable detail his harsh treatment of those who confessed the name ‘Jesus of Nazareth’. All of it was to no avail in the face of the authority of the risen Lord, whose utterance recalls the advice of Gamaliel, ‘If their counsel is of God, you shall not be able to resist them, and you may perhaps be found fighting against God’ (Acts 5:39). Correspondingly, in this account Paul describes his emotions as he persecuted the church: ‘I was out of my mind with rage
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