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Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978–2013 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This companion volume to Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Paul and His Recent Interpreters brings together N. T. Wright’s most important articles on Paul and his letters over the last three decades. The book begins with Wright’s auspicious essay of 1978, when as a young, aspiring scholar, he gave the annual Tyndale lecture in Cambridge, and proposed, for the first time, “a new perspective” on...

I have deliberately devoted most of this study to exploring history and faith in Paul, and to drawing a new picture of Paul’s theology which I believe does more justice to the texts than the usual one. I want now to turn to the other meaning of my ambiguous title, and to examine the real Paul in contrast with the imaginary apostle that the traditional understanding is always in danger of producing. In doing this I am, of course, conscious of all sorts of
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