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Paul and the Gift

John M. G. Barclay · 2015

A scholarly theological work examining Paul's understanding of gift and grace through anthropological, historical, and exegetical analysis, exploring how conceptions of gift have shaped interpretations of Pauline theology across Christian tradition.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Grace in Paul is not anti-Jewish but radically incongruous — given without regard to worth, which shatters every economy of merit.

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Work: Present
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faith-and-doubt

Paul's theology of grace could no longer be taken as a point of difference between himself and any other Jews — unless one wanted to return to now-discredited representations.
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In the last judgment God's just and congruent mercy on the righteous must be the operative principle; incongruous mercy is only a necessary interim means.
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Grace creates a new situation for the believer, the possibility of a new understanding of one's self — opening genuine decision rather than compulsion.
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self-and-identity

The Christ-gift neither recognized nor rewarded the worth of Paul's life 'in Judaism,' jolting recipients into a new construal of the cosmos.
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To live from grace is to live from the 'impossible possibility,' created ex nihilo by the unconditioned fiat of God, never once received and forever owned.
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ambition-and-status

To talk of supplementing faith by works would render God's work in Christ insufficient; Luther challenged the Christian life imagined as a journey toward uncertain merit.
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