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In it, John Barclay led readers through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted concept that is socially radical and unconditioned—even if not uncondition al.
In it, John Barclay led readers through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted concept that is socially radical and unconditioned—even if not unconditional.
In it, John Barclay led readers through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted concept that is socially radical and unconditioned—even if not unconditional.
Working from anthropological theories of gift-giving, and the specific context of the Roman Empire, Barclay argues how Paul is using the language of “grace” and “gift” by emphasizing how Christ was given by God to those who were unworthy and ungodly.
In it, John Barclay led students through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted concept that is socially radical and unconditioned - even if not unconditional.
Although uniquely distinctive, Paul’s theology of grace remains ‘within the spectrum of views among his Jewish contemporaries . . . Paul was not the only Jew of his day who took God’s grace to operate incongruously in the absence of worth’ (p. 140).
In it, John Barclay led readers through a recontextualized analysis of grace and interrogated Paul’s original meaning in declaring it a “free gift” from God, revealing grace as a multifaceted...