The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul

About this book

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 apostles 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 Pauls first-century world. In order to counteract that influence Campbell argues that it needs to be isolated and brought to the foreground before the interpretation of Pauls texts begins. When that is done readings free from this intrusive paradigm become possible and surprising new interpretations unfold.