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This collection of essays highlights a dimension of Paul’s theology of justification which has been rather neglected: that his teaching emerged as an integral part of his understanding of his commission to preach the gospel to non-Jews; and that his dismissal of justification ‘by works of the law’ was directed not so much against Jewish legalism but rather against his fellow Jews’ assumption that...

As I indicated in the Preface to my Theology of Paul the Apostle,1 my interest in Paul goes back to my 6th form (13th grade) school days, when I ran a lunchtime series for my younger fellow-pupils on Paul’s missionary journeys. That interest deepened appreciably in the course of my student days and became a fascination during my research at Cambridge in the mid-1960s. So I was not dismayed when in my first university
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