An Apocalyptic Rereading of “Justification” in Paul: Or, an overview of the argument of Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God*—by Douglas Campbell

This essay summarizes my book The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul in two main stages. First it describes the book’s distinctive account of a problem in modern Pauline scholarship in relation to several key debates and some of their most important representative...

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Main Author: Campbell, Douglas A. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2012]
In: The expository times
Year: 2012, Volume: 123, Issue: 8, Pages: 382-393
Further subjects:B Stendahl
B Religion in literature
B James B. Torrance
B works of law
B DELIVERANCE of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, The (Book)
B CAMPBELL, Douglas
B SALVATION in Christianity
B Sanders
B Righteousness
B Alasdair Heron
B Athanasius
B Arianism
B Wrede
B Soteriology
B Martyn
B faith in Christ
B faithfulness of Christ
B T. F. Torrance
B Arius
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Summary:This essay summarizes my book The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul in two main stages. First it describes the book’s distinctive account of a problem in modern Pauline scholarship in relation to several key debates and some of their most important representative figures—Wrede, Sanders, Stendahl, and Martyn. It then describes how the book offers in its first half (Parts I-III) an underlying unified and theological account of these issues—the unwitting release of Arianism within Paul’s interpretation in the specific form of a conditional conception of salvation in terms of a sequence of contracts. Following this the essay charts quickly the solution to this conundrum offered by the book’s second half (Parts IV and V): a non-contractual reading of all the texts in Paul that could generate a problematic contractual and conditional construal. This rereading concentrates on Romans 1-4 (1:16-5:1), and, within that passage, on the especially important 1:18-3:20, which is construed as a Socratic argument and thereby unconditionally in the broader setting of Romans.
ISSN:1745-5308
Contains:Enthalten in: The expository times
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0014524612439970