Here is my final post on Douglas Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. [Click here for a search that should turn up the rest!] This is the part I’ve been dreading, because I know Douglas will hate me for it, cast aspersions upon me for “not understanding” the importance [...]
I keep trying to finish my review comments on Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. This is the next-to-last installment, in which I will be singing its praises for the last time. Next time, I will be summarizing some of my hesitations about the project. Campbell begins his [...]
As I indicated yesterday, I am doing a final wrap-up of my impressions of Douglas A. Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. Once again, I’ll summarize with what is sure to be a huge disappointment to my readers: I agree with everyone else. The book is fantastic in its [...]
I want to do a final wrap-up of my impressions of Douglas A. Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul. Obviously, in a book of 936 pages (plus a couple hundred pages of end-notes), one will find far too many areas of agreement and disagreement to outline thoroughly. In case [...]
In my snail’s pace through Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, I’ve gotten through his assessment of the problems with a traditional reading of Romans 1:16-17 and 3:21-26 (pp. 377-81). Although this was a short section, it was a good reminder that (a) there are some serious problems [...]
I’ve been slow on my reading of Douglas Campbell’s The Deliverance of God lately. Sorry to leave you all hanging. I’m currently going through the chapter where he critiques the traditional “justification theory” reading of Romans 1:18-3:20. In general, I find in reading through this section that my fears from the earlier chapters are playing [...]
[The following is part of an ongoing series in which I blog my thoughts to Douglas A. Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul.] In my previous post, most excellent Theophilos, I wrote of all that Deliverance of God began to do and teach with respect to the Reformed Tradition [...]
Douglas, I’m up to the part on hermeneutical considerations, where I was most keenly interested in what you were going to say about the Reformed Tradition. But before we get there… I thought you did a very good job laying out the building blocks of interpreting a text. In particular, there were three important pieces [...]
First, no, the title of this blog post was not a coded allusion to an 80s rock band. Coming to the end of his first major section, “Justification Theory and Its Implications,” Campbell lays out some serious consequences for adopting Justification Theory. Important here is that in his view all these problems, or most of [...]
I’ve just come through a couple of really interesting chapters in Douglas Campbell’s Deliverance of God, ch. 4 on Judaism and ch. 5 on the question of Paul’s conversion. Rather than give summaries or engaging the arguments Douglas cares about, I want to draw attention to one major point he makes in which he scores [...]
