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Paul and His Recent Interpreters: Some Contemporary Debates is unavailable, but you can change that!

This companion volume to N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Pauline Perspectives is essential reading for all with a serious interest in Paul, the interpretation of his letters, his appropriation by subsequent thinkers, and his continuing significance today. In the course of his masterly survey, Wright asks searching questions of all of the major contributors to Pauline studies...

present age, the ultimate principle by which the self-consciousness of the spirit is produced and maintained …15 This meant, more or less, a collapsing of history and theology into one another. History was not simply the sphere in which one might occasionally encounter the divine, but ‘the self-expression of God as Absolute Spirit in the unfolding process of history’, so that ‘God lives in history, and history is the life of God.’16 We note that the word ‘history’ here basically means ‘what has happened’,
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