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Theologically profound and prophetically challenging, Galatians showcases God's initiative to empower liberation from those systems and their relational toxicity. Offering a new interpretation of Galatians, Bruce Longenecker synthesizes the best of four main interpretative alternatives, finding new solutions to scholarly gridlock.
List of contents
Part I. Reading the Theology of Galatians: 1. An introduction to the study of Galatians; 2. An overview of the message of Galatians; 3. The discursive flow of Galatians; Part II. Probing the Theology of Galatians: 4. The problem in layered perspective; 5. The torah in layered perspective; 6. Participation in Christ as identity power-vortex; 7. Decentering identity values; 8. The slavery of Christ-giving love; 9. The hope of righteousness and the faithfulness of God; Part III. Positioning the Theology of Galatians: 10. Galatians and the New Testament; 11. The afterlife of Galatians; 12. What Paul might say; Appendix: Did Galatians Accomplish Paul's Purpose; Suggestions for further reading; Bibliography.
About the author
Bruce Longenecker is the Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World (2020), co-editor (with David Wilhite) of The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (2023), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Paul (2020) and Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity (2022).
