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A sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul is sounded in this book by a distinguished interpreter of the New Testament. Krister Stendahl proposes—in the key title essay—new ways of exploring Paul’s speech: Paul must be heard as one who speaks of his call rather than conversion, of justification rather than forgiveness, or weakness rather than sin, of love rather than integrity,...

a few women follow his message (Acts 16:1, 14; 18:2), and to a Jew of the first century that represented no great success. Paul’s message was generally rejected by the Jews (Acts 13:43–45; 14:1 f.; 17:1–7), and consequently from the synagogue he went out to the market places in order to preach to the Gentiles. This appears to be a pattern. Now a professor of missions might tell us that this demonstrated that Paul was a great strategist: he used the synagogue, to which he had access, as a starting
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