Galatians: Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom Morris Leon L.Paperback
Galatians: Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom Morris Leon L.Paperback Among the letters of Paul, Galatians burns like a firestorm of apostolic rebuke, persuasion and passion for the truth of the…
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Galatians: Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom Morris Leon L.Paperback
Among the letters of Paul, Galatians burns like a firestorm of apostolic rebuke, persuasion and passion for the truth of the gospel. Freedom in Christ is set against bondage to the law, adopted children of God are contrasted with slaves of elemental spirits, and justification by faith is opposed to works of the law. Against those who would preach "another gospel," Paul deploys an arsenal of biblical-theological reasoning and a rhetoric of vivid, contrasting images that have seldom failed to arrest readers of every era.
Good works by which people assert their self-achieved righteousness, or practices of the Jewish law that defined social boundaries and thus stood as a barrier to Gentiles from entering the new covenant? But what are these "works of the law"? Astute readers will recognize this question as central to the recent scholarly debate over the "new perspective" on Paul. Leon