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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...

the charge involves neither (as claimed by the “old perspective”) a deficient understanding of the relationship of law and grace, nor (as claimed by the “new perspective”) ethnocentric exclusion of gentiles, but rejection of the covenant and mercy of God now fully revealed in Christ (Rom 10:5–13). The core issue in Romans 9:30–10:13 (as Sanders rightly recognized) is christological (that is, focused on the person and identity of Jesus), but the thought (as Sanders failed to recognize) is Jewish and
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