2025年6月17日星期二

[Logos] Freebie for June: Thiselton's Puzzling Passages in Paul: Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered

Puzzling Passages in Paul: Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered

by Anthony Thiselton
Publisher: Cascade Books, 2018
ISBN: 9781532650543

Overview

Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul’s epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts. The Second Letter of Peter, commenting about them, says: “There are some things in them that are hard to understand” (2 Pet 3:16). Indeed! To this day many issues of their interpretation remain highly contested.

In this book, Anthony Thiselton grasps the nettle and examines forty puzzling passages from Paul’s epistles. He considers the various scholarly proposals about their meaning and offers his own reflections in the hope of dispersing fog and shedding light, and of expounding a coherent and self-consistent Paul.

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