he identified here the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham and a sign of hope for Israel. Do these two aspects of Paul—his theology of grace and his establishment of churches that bridged the division between Jews and non-Jews—belong together? Does his theology of grace accompany his social practice in the formation of innovative communities? Is Paul’s theology, in its original context, as much about social as individual transformation, and does the gift of God in Christ ground the creation
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