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Joseph A. Fitzmyer · 1989
A scholarly synthesis of Paul's life, career, and theological teachings, covering his Christocentric soteriology, anthropology, and ethics. Written for students of the Bible in a compact, systematic form.
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What this book knows
Paul's gospel is a coherent theological system: Christ's death and resurrection restructures human existence, sin, law, and cosmos.
mortality
Christ died for our sins… Christ died for us godless people — vicarious death for humanity is the basic Pauline idea.
PHTB-RC-067Sin, Death, Grace, and Law strut as personified actors on Paul's three-staged stage of human history, perceived through Jewish spectacles.
PHTB-RC-092faith-and-doubt
In contrast to 'God's wrath' stands 'the uprightness of God' — a quality inherited from the OT, a gift given to human beings.
PHTB-RC-052Love is for Paul the summation of the law — a faith that works itself out through love surpassing even charismatic manifestations.
PHTB-RC-104transformation
'If anyone is in Christ, one is a new creature' — vital union expressed as symbiosis, a dynamic influence of Christ on the Christian.
PHTB-RC-109Paul's theology still has existential meaning for faith today; its normative meaning cannot be completely other than what Paul intended.
PHTB-RC-032Illuminates
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