The essays presented here represent over twenty-five years of thinking about the theology and life of the Apostle Paul who, as a ‘slave of Jesus Christ’ (Rom 1:1), was a ‘servant of the new covenant’ with a ‘ministry of the Spirit’ (2 Cor 3:6, 8). Taking the questions raised by the history of scholarship since F. C. Baur as their starting point, Hafemann’s exegetical studies focus on how Paul’s self-understanding shaped his message, the motivations of his ministry, and his consequent call to suffer for the sake of his churches. Hafemann’s work reveals that Paul’s views of redemption, of his own redemptive mission, and of the life of the redeemed derived from his eschatological conviction that the purpose of the new covenant realities inaugurated by the Christ is to prepare for their promised consummation when Christ returns to judge the world.
About the author
Scott J. Hafemann is Reader in New Testament at St. Mary’s College, School of Divinity, at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Previously, he was the Mary F. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, having served for nine years as the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of New Testament and Greek, Wheaton College and Graduate School. He is the author of the NIV Application Commentary on 2 Corinthians; Suffering and Ministry in the Spirit in the Paternoster Biblical Monograph series; and a study of biblical theology, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith. His current interests are in the Petrine Epistles and the doctrine of justification.
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