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Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s ways of speaking about God, Jesus, and the Spirit are intricately intertwined: talking about any one of the three, for Paul, implies reference to all of them together. However, much current Pauline scholarship discusses Paul’s God-, Christ-, and Spirit-language without reference to Trinitarian theology. In contrast to that trend, Wesley Hill argues in this book that later, post-Pauline...

The history of interpretation of Pauline speech about God and Jesus (and, to some extent, the Spirit as well) is, among other things, the story of a replacement of one way of speaking with another. Here, before embarking on a detailed discussion of Paul himself, I want to tell the story of how Paul’s interpreters opted for a newer model of “theology and christology” and rejected an older one. In what follows, I will describe
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