Paul, Apostle of Liberty, 2nd ed.
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Overview
Paul’s teachings are vital to the Christian gospel, so the turbulent, long-running debate over how to interpret Paul’s message is crucially important. Richard Longenecker’s Paul, Apostle of Liberty has long stood—and still stands—as a significant, constructive, evangelical study of Paul’s theology, especially of the creative tension between law and liberty that runs throughout his thought.
When this book was originally published in 1964, Longenecker then presciently anticipated several subsequent debates, addressing many of the same questions that such scholars as E.P. Sanders and Richard Hays did years later. This second edition of Paul, Apostle of Liberty includes a substantial foreword by Douglas Campbell and a lengthy addendum by Longenecker discussing the major developments in Paul studies over the past fifty years.
Don't miss Richard Longenecker's The New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Epistle to the Romans.
- Explores the origins of Paul's gospel
- Addresses core questions about grace and law in Pauline theology
- Includes updated material to reflect the changing dynamics of debate about Paul
- The Problem of Sources
- A Hebrew of the Hebrews
- The Piety of Hebraic Judaism
- Saul and the Law
- Legality and the Law
- The End of Nomism
- Liberty in Christ
- The Exercise of Liberty
- Paul and the Jerusalem Church
- All Things to All Men
- The Problem Practises of Acts
The republication of Richard Longenecker's Paul, Apostle of Liberty is potentially a very important moment for modern Pauline studies. . . . This book is, if nothing else, an analysis of truly impressive breadth and sophistication, while it is still more incredible to think of all the debates that it anticipated by decades. . . . It is more and more apparent to me on reflection what a tour de force this sustained explanation of Paul's thinking is, and hence my enthusiasm for its republication. It deserves to be much more widely known than it currently is.
—Douglas A. Campbell, Duke Divinity School
Richard N. Longenecker is a prominent New Testament scholar who served as Distinguished Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College and taught for many years at Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto. He is now retired. His education includes B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wheaton College, and a Ph.D. from New College in the University of Edinburgh. He was also honored with a D.D. from Wycliffe College. Author of numerous books, including Galatians in the Word Biblical Commentary Series, Romans in the New International Greek Testament Commentary Serie, and Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period.