Interpreting the Pauline Epistles

Interpreting the Pauline EpistlesLeading Pauline studies expert Thomas Schreiner provides an updated guide to the exegesis of the New Testament epistles traditionally assigned to Paul. The first edition helped thousands of students dig deeper into studying the New Testament epistles. This new edition is revised throughout to account for changes in the field and to incorporate the author's maturing judgments. The book helps readers understand the nature of first century letters, do

John Calvin was arguably the most influential of the sixteenth-century Reformers

and narrative criticisms

especially those with little or no biblical background

facilitating enriched understandings of the significance and force of the texts of the New Testament in their original contexts

● the reasons why forming faith is so hard in our context

youth workers

The conclusions of critical biblical scholarship often pose a disconcerting challenge to traditional Christian faith

As the only book of its kind in the New Testament

historical backgrounds

uniquely equips them to call their communities to imagine a more hopeful

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their impact on New Testament interpretation