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In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of early Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with...

struggles with a guilty conscience and—pointing to Paul’s claim to have been blameless before his conversion with regard to righteousness under the law (Phil 3:6)—argued that “Paul was equipped with what in our eyes must be called a rather ‘robust’ conscience.… [T]here is no indication that he had any difficulty in fulfilling the law.”61 In making these points Stendahl provided the basis on which Sanders would later argue that Paul worked from solution to plight, only realizing his plight and his
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