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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....

wishes that those who were insisting that the Galatian converts should be circumcised “would castrate themselves” (5:12)!9 What was at stake here, in Paul’s view, was whether this new faith in/commitment to Jesus (the) Christ meant that gentile believers were converting to Judaism. Was belief in Jesus (the) Christ simply a first step to becoming a Jew? Paul was clear that the answer was no! It was the incomers (to Galatia) insisting that the Galatians’ belief in/commitment to Christ was only a first
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