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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...

One particular long-term result of Baur’s picture must be noted here. Baur used his vision of history progressing as the incarnation of the divine spirit in the service of a radical Protestantism which broke decisively with Judaism. But in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was another movement which likewise saw God at work in history, only this time including the Jewish history as a ‘salvation history’ which would eventually culminate in Jesus. This movement is not so well known
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