has begun, it is not yet complete;5 Emil Brunner calls the Pauline exhortations “pedagogical instructions … not binding on the conscience”;6 George F. Thomas describes Paul’s ethic as an “ethic of redemption, an ethic for the regenerate”;7 Joseph Sittler invokes Paul’s name in support of the view that the Christian’s ethical acts are to be “faithful reenactments of [Christ’s] life.”8 And while Reinhold Niebuhr is bothered by Paul’s view of sin which “imperils and seems to weaken all moral judgments
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