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Paul and the Gentile Problem (Paperback)
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Paul and the Gentile Problem (Paperback)
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Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the
apostle Paul's statements about the Jewish law in his letters to
the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against circumcision and
the law in Romans 2 and his reading of Genesis 15-21 in Galatians
4:21-31 belong within a stream of Jewish thinking which rejected
the possibility that gentiles could undergo circumcision and adopt
the Jewish law, thereby becoming Jews. Paul opposes this solution
to the gentile problem because he thinks it misunderstands how
essentially hopeless the gentile situation remains outside of
Christ. The second part of the book moves from Paul's arguments
against a gospel that requires gentiles to undergo circumcision and
adoption of the Jewish law to his own positive account, based on
his reading of the Abraham Narrative, of the way in which Israel's
God relates to gentiles. Having received the Spirit (pneuma) of
Christ, gentiles are incorporated into Christ, who is the singular
seed of Abraham, and, therefore, become materially related to
Abraham. But this solution raises a question: Why is it so
important for Paul that gentiles become seed of Abraham? The
argument of this book is that Paul believes that God had made
certain promises to Abraham that only those who are his seed could
enjoy and that these promises can be summarized as being empowered
to live a moral life, inheriting the cosmos, and having the hope of
an indestructible life.
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