New Perspective on Paul: Collected Essays. By James D. G.
Stuhlmacher, P. (2001) Revisiting Paul’s doctrine of justification: a challenge to the new perspective. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press. Theissen, G. (2004) Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth.
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The new perspectives on Paul can be rather confusing for the general layperson, so it is the goal of this paper to clarify and explain these new positions in contrast to the prevalent and classically held orthodox view that contains many doctrines that the church has stood upon for years.
NT2200-Week Two-Perspectives on Paul Paper The “old perspective” or “traditional perspective” that Timothy G. Gombis presents in our textbook can be summed up as a human effort to make oneself righteous in the eyes of God through works of the law.
THE ISSUES The term “new perspective” was coined by J.D.G. Dunn in 1982 to describe the new approach to Paul’s theology he was advocating which was built on the work of several earlier scholars such as E.P. Sanders in Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977). It now is embraced by quite a range of scholars.
The New Perspective on Paul: Collected Essays Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008. Dunn, J.D.G. The Theology of Paul's Letter to the Galatians New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Eastman, S. Recovering Paul's Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007.
No serious student of Paul can afford to ignore this new perspective and the various discussions it has engendered.-European Journal of Theology -This book is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to become acquainted in particular with the work of James Dunn, and in general with the so-called 'new perspective' on Paul.-Booklist -James Dunn's contribution to the so-called 'new perspective.