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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...

The point of God’s glory, in Jewish expectation, was that this glory would once again come to dwell in the renewed, restored Temple. Thus when we find, in Paul, the theme of God’s indwelling, we are dealing with the same notion, even though the word doxa itself may not occur. And, classically, we find just this in the first two chapters of Colossians. At the climax of the wonderful poem in chapter 1, Paul declares that in Jesus Christ eudokēsen pan to plēroma katoikēsai, ‘all the Fullness’—in other
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