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The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul Paperback – March 18, 2013

by Douglas A. Campbell (Author), N. T. Wright (Foreword)
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  • Paperback: 1248 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans (March 18, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802870732
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802870735
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.4 x 9.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsBack on track for unconditional grace
By Paul J. Nuechterlein on November 11, 2009
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Christians (especially Protestants) believe that Paul's message of Justification by Faith is a message of unconditional grace. So why does that message so often lapse back into one of conditional grace: 'believe this if you desire salvation'? Could it be that believers have gotten Paul's basic message wrong all these years?

Douglas Campbell's new book could initiate and influence the biggest change in the Church's theology since the Reformation. He argues that interpreters of Paul are off-center with the heart of Paul's message of unconditional grace. They've gotten off track because they've both wrongly made Romans 1-4, with its dominant language of Justification, the center of Paul's message, and because they seriously have misread Romans 1-4. He proposes Romans 5-8, which is about God's unconditional deliverance of Creation from the powers of sin and death, as the true center for Paul's message. Paul's readers should be understanding Romans 1-4 through the lens of Romans 5-8, and not vice versa.

And so the misreading of Romans 1-4 has been huge. He suggests that Paul in Romans 1:18-3:20 has included a diatribe in the Greco-Roman style of the times against an opposing Teacher in Rome. The conventional reading of Romans 1-4 has thus represented what is actually two contradictory views of the Gospel, Paul's and his opponent's, as Paul's view alone -- thereby importing false views of faith and God into the Church's theology (e.g., conditional grace). Campbell skillfully sorts out the opponent's views in his radical rereading of Romans 1-4 such that Paul's Gospel is more clearly the message of a gracious, unconditional deliverance from sin and death in order that believers might live life in the Spirit.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsEveryone who is really interested in Christianity should read this book.
By Biblical Reader on May 31, 2014
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This is truly a ground breaking book. It should be required reading in all seminaries. The book in long (900 pages) and deals with a lot of scholarship, that also includes Greek. It is helpful if the reader has some background the critical debate surrounding the issues; but the book is readable. Essentially, Campbell takes E.P. Sanders' book, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, which is also a ground breaking book, and extends its implications to Romans and Galatians in arguing that Paul is debating with Jewish-Christian teachers rather than with Judaism.
Campbell takes Richard Hay's position that Paul speaks of the faithfulness of Christ rather than our faith in Christ and gives a very strong argument for that position. For Campbell, we do not receive God's righteousness by believing but our faith and belief in Christ comes through the act of God's spirit. In other words, salvation is based totally on God's grace through the death of Jesus Christ.
Campbell also has some penetrating insights into the origins of Christ's death through the Maccabees and the sacrifice of Isaac.
This book is well worth the time and labor you put into it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDefibrillator For Theology
By Anthony W. Bartlett on June 24, 2012
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Douglas Campbell's massive work is a massive defibrillator for the crazy cardiac arrhythmia of Western theology. His core textual argument must be inconclusive (there are no Shakespearean stage directions at Romans 1:18 saying "Here False Teacher"), but his overall thesis is powerfully persuasive: that probably the most crucial New Testament writing for fifteen hundred years of Western Christianity can only be read intelligibly if we say Paul's gospel only gets going at the end of chapter three. If we don't say this we waver back and forth on an endless alternating current between a double set of polarities, on one side either "justification" or "participation," and the other either "Judaism's works righteousness" or "Jewish covenant integrity." (And I would add another, even more terrible third oscillation, between a God of violence on the one hand and a nonviolent redemption on the other.) For Campbell, Paul's gospel is noncontractual, irruptive, apocalyptic, transformative. It has a surprising but steady, gracious beat. Perhaps the most scary thing, though, after you put this book down and start thinking, is it suggests a good chunk of Western theology has been little more than a wild goose chase. But then wouldn't that be just typical for the followers of Jesus to find out, "after all this time", we just honestly had it wrong?
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Other Perspective
By moving fwd on August 31, 2009
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Impressive!

When Sanders wrote "Paul and Palestinian Judaism" it defined the trajectory of Pauline Scholarship for 30 years. Campbell's "The Deliverance of God" will be the piece that defines the next 30.

With bold approach Campbell sets out to deconstruct and demythologize the theory of Justification. Section one is a simple, but methodological, assault on the claims of Justification both particularly and empirically. From the outset he brazenly tips his hand offering another perspective that is held in constant parallel during his critique of the old and new perspectives in Pauline scholarship. Section two is a succinct but efficient definition of hermeneutics and a generous plea for honest scholarship. The remainder of the book is a systematic approach to Paul's soteriology that functions as an apology for Justification (in the negative) and an apology for his own perspective (in the positive).

Whether you agree or disagree with what Campbell has to offer there is little doubt that it will burden the paradigm of popular theologies with a need for hard evidence if it wants to continue.

On a practical level Campbell's perspective offers hope to those, whether inside or outside the church, who have been held captive by, were repulsed by, or critical of, the fearmongering that has dominated in the church for too long.
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For those who have been dissatisfied with old understandings of Paul's message of what it means to be delivered by Christ, this is a great reference. Read more

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