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In the 16 searing chapters of his Letter to the Romans, Paul gets to the heart of the Law and the Gospel—of how human beings can be saved through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and attain eternal life. In the process, he touches upon such perennially important topics as predestination, the role of the Jewish people in salvation history, and the responsibility of Christians to those in...

rough edges of Paul’s radical notions about sin, grace, faith, election, and judgment. The fact that Harnack himself saw only a ferment, not a basis, in this recurrent Paulinism perhaps says more about Harnack than it does about the writings of the apostle borne out of due time. It reflects Harnack’s own captivity to the historicizing and relativizing, and indeed the de-dogmatizing, of the Christian faith, an impetus stemming from Schleiermacher’s elevation of religious self-consciousness, rather
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