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This highly anticipated two-book fourth volume in N. T. Wright’s magisterial series, Christian Origins and the Question of God, is destined to become the standard reference point on the subject for all serious students of the Bible and theology. The mature summation of a lifetime’s study, this landmark volume pays a rich tribute to the breadth and depth of the apostle’s vision, and offers an...

The point of it all, here in chapter 5, is then salvation. The word ‘salvation’ stresses as it were the negative pole (‘salvation from’) of the future hope: in this case, ‘from God’s coming anger’.316 In 5:2 Paul balances this, as in 8:18–30, with the positive pole (saved for): in this case, for ‘the glory of God’, which according to 3:23 had been lost through sin. And, having spoken so far of the Messiah’s death ‘on our behalf’, he changes at the end of verse 10: we are saved ‘in his life’, en tō
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