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Paul’s Theology in Context: Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul. Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s original audience as startling or unique. By comparing Paul’s teaching to the other religions and philosophies...

Meditations 8.54).6 This pantheistic mode of thought was shared by many ancient Hindu sages, who taught that the universe was an emanation (that is, an outgrowth or outflow) of divine being, and itself divine (Rigveda 10.90; Bhagavad Gita 9). Within the ancient pagan world, the philosopher who came closest to the conception of a transcendent creator God was Plato (c. 429–347 BCE). Plato, to be sure, was a polytheist, believing in multiple divinities. However, Plato envisioned among the many gods
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