Apostle Of God: Paul And The Promise Of Abraham; Author: White, John L.; Paperback

Author: White, John L.
Paperback
277 pages
Published: November 1999
Hendrickson Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1565632834
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Most interpreters of Paul emphasize that for Paul, God as universal lawgiver and judge effects righteousness through Christ's saving death, that is, along lines entirely compatible with Paul's previously Pharisaic understanding of God. But since for Paul the power of Torah and tradition to save had in essence its legs kicked out from under it, the question needs to be asked, What made it possible for Gentiles to be saved? What effect did Paul's conversion have on his understanding of God? White contends that to understand the Christ-event in accordance with Torah and Jewish tradition, Paul -- the Apostle to the Gentiles -- recognized in Abraham and Sarah (as neither ethnically Jewish nor Torah-bound) the explanation for the new status of Gentiles.