Paul and the Gentiles: Remapping the Apostle’s Convictional World (Biblia.com)

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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...

for Paul, it does not mean “not Israel.” This leads to the final section of this chapter. I have argued that the shape of Paul’s rhetoric concerning Gentile salvation can be best accounted for in terms of an underlying pattern of convictions in which Gentiles are thought of as proselytes to an Israel reconfigured around Christ. Paul’s statements concerning his own role as apostle to the Gentiles need to be examined, but we are nevertheless at the point where

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