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Douglas Campbell gives a clear account of why much current description of Paul’s theology, and of his gospel and of his theory of salvation, is so confused. After outlining the difficulties underlying much of the current debate he lays out some basic options that will greatly clarify the debate. He then engages with these options and shows how one offers far more promise than the others,...

the greatest thinkers of the last century, Michael Polanyi. He suggests, among other things, that a truly scientific inquiry is characterized by the employment of a method that is appropriate to the nature of the object being investigated.4 So we should begin by first considering the nature of our object of inquiry, and some profound difficulties immediately become apparent. Paul was an ancient figure known now largely through partially extant, and highly occasional or circumstantial, texts. And the
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