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First published in 1968—and out of print since the 1980s—Victor Paul Furnish’s treatment of Paul’s theology and ethics has long been regarded as the key scholarly statement and most useful textbook on Paul’s thought. Now, Theology and Ethics in Paul is available once again as part of the Westminster John Knox Press New Testament Library. Featuring a new introduction from Richard Hays, this...

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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