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Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The theology of the apostle Paul is complex, set forth in numerous occasional letters, and subject to a seemingly endless variety of interpretations. How should students of Scripture engage the challenging task of discerning the shape of Paul’s thought? In Paul, Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ, Thomas R. Schreiner seeks to unearth Paul’s worldview by observing what Paul actually says in his...

To continue the illustration, what is the ultimate goal of the building of the house? The goal is not the building itself, whether it is conceived in terms of God’s righteousness, reconciliation, salvation history, or apocalyptic. All of these themes are dimensions of the house, but they are not the end for which the house was made. Fulfilling salvation history cannot itself be the goal of salvation history since that would be redundant. Instead God has built the house to bring honor and praise to
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