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Paul the Apostle's Life, Letters, and Thought

E. P. Sanders · 2015

A comprehensive scholarly examination of the Apostle Paul's life, missionary work, letters, and theological thought, written for undergraduate students and general readers with some religious background. Sanders combines biographical narrative with detailed exegesis of Paul's epistles, emphasizing the importance of understanding Paul's arguments within their first-century Jewish context.

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God & Work

What this book knows

Paul's letters reveal a Jewish apostle wrestling law, faith, and gentile inclusion into a coherent — if contested — theological system.

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faith-and-doubt

Paul preached the death, resurrection, and lordship of Jesus Christ, and proclaimed that faith in him guaranteed a share in his life.
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'Reckoned' led to imputed righteousness for sinners; 'boasting' proved that trying to be righteous is the worst thing anyone can do.
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Israel's hardhearted rejection of Christ provided time for gentile conversion, which would in turn save Jews through jealousy.
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obedience-and-authority

The law was given not to 'make alive' — that comes only through faith — but as a pedagogue, a disciplinarian holding humanity in bondage until faith arrived.
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Paul avoids Genesis 17's command of circumcision, constructing an argument that gentiles who have faith are descendants of Abraham.
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self-and-identity

During approximately the first half of his adulthood, Paul was a Pharisee — outstanding, on his own report — before his world reversed entirely.
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