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Paul is Herman Ridderbos’ monumental work on the theology of the Apostle Paul. Setting the stage of inquiry, Ridderbos begins with a short examination of the four successive schools of thought concerning the study of Paul’s writings: the Tübingen school, the liberal school, the history of religions approach, and the eschatological interpretations. Ridderbos then provides keen insight into the...

turning away from sin. Other ideas of the same kind, in which the “thinking” of man is very closely linked with his moral self-determination and his whole religious-moral attitude to life, could also be pointed out.75 For our purpose it is sufficient to ascertain that from the viewpoint of a theological anthropology the concept nous has great significance in Paul, in that nous on the one hand denotes the organ, the possibility, in which man is addressed as a thinking and responsible being by the
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