Douglas A. Campbell - The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul

Mobilizing an impressive synthesis of biblical, theological, and sociological material, Douglas Campbell drops this carefully crafted bombshell of a book on established liberal and evangelical orthodoxies alikeprecisely, however, in order to realize an even deeper, more coherently biblical orthodoxy! Neither conservative nor liberal, both highly meticulous and profoundly disruptive, Campbells Deliverance expresses the long labors of a world-class biblical scholar who is also theologically attuned (a real accomplishment) and sociologically engaged (amazing!).

CHRISTIAN SMITH

This massive work is startlingly original, sometimes brilliant in its insights, and always boldly provocative. Campbells strongly antithetical vision identifies participation in Christ as the sole core of Pauline theology and produces the most radical rereading of Romans 14 for more than a generation. Even those who disagree will be forced to clarify their views as never before.

JOHN M. G. BARCLAY

The battle over Pauls gospel is engaged in this book with an intensity, passion, and breadth of learning rarely seen since the days of Luther.

DOUGLAS HARINK

THE DELIVERANCE OF GOD

An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul

Douglas A. Campbell

WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY

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2009 Douglas A. Campbell

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Campbell, Douglas Atchison, 1961

The deliverance of God: an apocalyptic rereading of justification in Paul /
Douglas A. Campbell.

p.cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8028-7073-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)

eISBN 978-1-4674-4111-7

1. Justification (Christian theology)Biblical teaching.

2. Bible. N.T. Epistles of PaulTheology. I. Title.

BS2655.J8C362009

227.06dc22

2009013119

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To Rachel, Rupert, and Georgia,

whose sacrifices are inscribed unseen on every page

Contents

The following material has been reprinted or substantially reproduced by the kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Ltd.: pages 14664 and 25356 from The Quest for Pauls Gospel: A Suggested Strategy (London: T&T Clark International [Continuum], 2005)excerpts from chapter eight, The Contractual (JF) Construal of Pauls Gospel, and Its Problems, and chapter eleven, Rereading Romans 1:183:20, respectively; and pages 37587 from Towards a New, Rhetorically Assisted Reading of Romans 3:274:25, in Rhetorical Criticism and the Bible, ed. Stanley E. Porter and Dennis L. Stamps, JSNTSup 195 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press [Continuum], 2002). Permission is also gratefully acknowledged from the Society of Biblical Literature to draw significantly from 2 Corinthians 4:13: Evidence in Paul That Christ Believes. Journal of Biblical Literature 128.2 (2009): 33756. The bibliography supplied for part five, chapter twenty-one, 3.2, should also be updated in relation to this article.

Most of the English Scripture quotations herein (other than my own translations) are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by Permission. All rights reserved. Occasionally Scripture quotations are drawn from the Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright 1973, 1984, by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Use is also gratefully acknowledged of the 27th critical edition of the New Testament edited by Eberhard and Erwin Nestle, Barbara and Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993), and of the critical edition of the Septuagint edited by Alfred Rahlfs, revised by Robert Hanhart (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006).

Most of the significant intellectual debts incurred during the course of this project are acknowledged plainly in what followsin particular, those owed to the guidance and wisdom of Richard Longenecker, James and Alan Torrance, and Robert Jewett. But an earlier debt to an esteemed mentor is not so obviousthat is, to my teacher at the University of Toronto, Abraham Rotstein. It is a pleasure to acknowledge his importance to me here. I have also been greatly encouraged since my arrival at the Divinity School at Duke University in 2003 by students from every programM.Div., M.T.S., Th.M., Ph.D., and Th.D. To put things at their plainest: their enthusiasm has been critical. Tommy Givens, Timothy TJ Lang, Colin Miller, Dan Rhodes, Scott Ryan, Robert Moses, and Celia Wolff deserve special mention. The School itself has also been right behind me, from the Dean downward! I have greatly appreciated thisespecially the kindness and encouragement of Stanley Hauerwas. The coffee-shop group has also been criticalespecially Jeff McSwain, Alan Koeneke, and Chris Smith. I am grateful to Ann Weston for her editorial help during the final push to delivery. Peter Lampes support from Heidelberg has been much appreciated, as has the ongoing support of the Von Humboldt Foundation. Many from the United Kingdom and New Zealand have also been faithfulmy parents in particular, Graeme and Leigh. And I owe an incalculable debt to Carol Shoun, whose editorial work is so meticulously diligent and deeply insightful.