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The 'popular Paul' has all too often been addressing sixteenth-century questions in a nineteenth-century tone of voice

Forgiveness doesn't mean "I didn't really mind" or "it didn't really matter.

Paul's response was to quote the prophets once more, this time his regular text, Isaiah 49: "I have set you for a light to the nations, so that you can be salvation-bringers to the end of the earth.

So-called end-time speculation, which is the daily bread of many in the American religious right, is not unconnected to the agenda of some of America's leading politicians.

This might be, after all, a way of smuggling in 'works' by the back door, into Paul's soteriology (something we Paulinists are trained to watch out for, like sniffer dogs at an airport ready to detect the slightest whiff of hard drugs).

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic. That

Justification" is the covenant declaration, establishing in a single family all who share the messianic pistis.

Among the many highly complex and artistic patterns which have been discerned throughout these chapters we may highlight the rather obvious one: that the judgments, like the plagues in Egypt, are the prelude to the rescue of God's people.

He did not want to rescue humans from creation any more than he wanted to rescue Israel from the Gentiles. He wanted to rescue Israel in order that Israel might be a light to the Gentiles, and he wanted thereby to rescue humans in order that humans might be his rescuing stewards over creation.

The rules of charity and conscience are there, not to nail down a one-size-fits-all rule-book but precisely to enable mutual respect and shared worship in the absence of such a thing.

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.