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Douglas Campbell, The Deliverance of God1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2012

Alan Torrance*
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, St Mary's College, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, UKtorrance@st-andrews.ac.uk

Extract

I have been invited to assess Douglas Campbell's door-stopper of a tome from a theological perspective. Given that this is a work in Pauline scholarship by a leading New Testament scholar, what is the justification for involving a theologian? Clearly, it is because the argumentation of this book is driven by a theological critique of certain key methodological, epistemological and, indeed, ontological suppositions which have functioned to sustain what Campbell calls ‘justification discourse’ – an approach to Pauline interpretation that Campbell argues is outmoded, confused and ultimately incoherent.

Type
Article Review
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2012

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References

2 Jüngel, Eberhard, Gottes Sein ist im Werden: Verantwortliche Rede vom Sein Gottes bei Karl Barth. Ein Paraphrase (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1976), p. 10Google Scholar.

3 Jüngel (Eng. trans. Horton Harris), p. xx.