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Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this first major analysis of Paul’s understanding of Gentile salvation in several years, Terence Donaldson offers a creative approach to the major themes of the apostle’s theological convictions: God, sin, the Torah, Christ, Israel, his own call, and others. According to Donaldson, Paul as a believer in Jesus Christ did not abandon his Jewish frame of reference but reconfigured it, especially...

rejects it because he has come to believe that the community of salvation is to be found in Christ.37 All this could be developed at greater length,38 and many aspects will come up for more detailed scrutiny below. But for our present purposes the important point is the observation, common to Wrede, Schweitzer, and Sanders, that Paul’s juridical language is not to be located at the center of his thought, laying bare his fundamental concern for the plight of the individual human being, generically
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