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The Quest for Paul’s Gospel: A Suggested Strategy is unavailable, but you can change that!

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,...

This leads us to the further observation that, according to this model, an interrelated dynamic of Father, Son, and Spirit seems to lie at the heart of Paul’s thinking about salvation. It is otiose to observe that Paul’s language is not Chalcedonian—we would not expect him to discuss matters in terms that reflect a further 400 years of deliberation. But our initial soundings suggest that those further deliberations are arguably an entirely fair reflection of Paul’s own much less developed soteriological
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