Digital Logos Edition
The letter to the Galatians is a key source for Pauline theology as it presents Paul’s understanding of justification, the gospel, and many topics of keen contemporary interest. In this volume, some of the world’s top Christian scholars offer cutting-edge scholarship on how Galatians relates to theology and ethics.
The stellar list of contributors includes N.T. Wright, Mark W. Elliott, John Barclay, Beverly Gaventa, Richard Hays, Bruce McCormack, and Oliver O'Donovan. As they emphasize the contribution of Galatians to Christian theology and ethics, the contributors explore how exegesis and theology meet, critique, and inform each other.
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Looking for still another take on Galatians? Check out Douglass Moo’s Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Galatians.
“To summarize the argument to this point: the verb ἰουδαΐζω means for non-Jews to observe Jewish customs, whereas the cognate noun Ἰουδαϊσμός means the defense and promotion of Jewish customs by Jewish people. This phenomenon runs contrary to the rules of etymology, but it is the case.” (Page 33)
“He makes the further and more radical claim that this one gospel produces one humanity, a humanity that belongs to Christ, and a humanity in which the divisions that mark all humanity no longer exist.” (Page 196)
“His statements have exclusive relevance to the local crisis in Galatia. Paul uses Scripture to argue against the specific gospel perversion in Galatia, not to critique Judaism, the Mosaic law, or Jewish identity.” (Page 83)
“The phrase ἐν νόμῳ in verse 11 does not refer to the Mosaic law in the abstract: instead, it is theological shorthand for the influencers’ persuasion that the Galatians must respond to the gospel by judaizing.” (Page 87)
“Something more is at stake than justification, for Christ is not simply the one who justifies; now Christ is the one with whom ‘I’ am crucified, the one who lives ‘in me.’ Here the gospel’s singularity comes to expression in a form that is frightening: the gospel gives life by taking it away.” (Page 194)
The essays are grouped under three headings that reflect the content of Galatians: the question of justification by faith, the Gospel message proclaimed by Paul and defended in this letter, and the role of ethics in Paul’s theology and pastoral exhortations. Some of the essays push beyond a focus on Galatians itself and consider its impact on later theological, particularly Reformation, traditions. This is a feast for students of Paul!
—Donald Senior, CP, The Bible Today
Mark W. Elliott is reader in church history and head of the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews.
Scott J. Hafemann is reader in New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Paul, Moses, and the History of Israel; The God of Promise and the Life of Faith; Understanding the Heart of the Bible; and a commentary on 2 Corinthians. He is also the editor of Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect.
N.T. Wright is research professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of numerousy books, including Paul and the Faithfulness of God, Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul 1978–2013, as well as all the books in the Works of N.T. Wright (48 vols.) collection.
John Frederick, a PhD candidate at St. Andrews, is assistant professor and worship coordinator in the College of Theology at Grand Canyon University.
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