The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802870735)

This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation today, pushing beyond both "Lutheran" and "New" perspectives on Paul to a noncontractual, "apocalyptic" reading of many of the apostle's most famous -- and most troublesome -- texts.

In The Deliverance of God Douglas Campbell holds that the intrusion of an alien, essentially modern, and theologically unhealthy theoretical construct into the interpretation of Paul has produced an individualistic and contractual construct that shares more with modern political traditions than with either orthodox theology or Paul's first-century world. In order to counter-act that influence, Campbell argues that it needs to be isolated and brought to the foreground before the interpretation of Paul's texts begins. When that is done, readings free from this intrusive paradigm become possible and surprising new interpretations unfold.

Author: Douglas A. Campbell
ISBN-10: 0802870732
ISBN-13: 9780802870735
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2013
Pages: 1248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.60d