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The Apostle Paul and the Christian Life: Ethical and Missional Implications of the New Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

The “new perspective” on Paul, an approach that seeks to reinterpret the apostle Paul and his letters against the backdrop of first-century Judaism, has been criticized by some as not having value for ordinary Christians living ordinary lives. In this volume, world-renowned scholars explore the implications of the new perspective on Paul for the Christian life and church. James D. G. Dunn, N. T....

gives a clear account of his own conversion (Gal. 1:13–17). So after drawing attention to the weight of authority he sought to invest in the letter, we will then look at Paul’s account of how he himself became a Christian, and then at the way he had to fight to define and defend what he regarded as the fundamental factors which constituted or qualified a person to be counted as “Christian.” In fact, two words stand out in Paul’s talk of the Christian life in Galatians—pistis, “faith,” and pneuma,
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