RT Article
T1 An Attempt to be Understood: A Response to the Concerns of Matlock and Macaskill with The Deliverance of God
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 34
IS 2
SP 162
OP 208
A1 Campbell, Douglas A. 1961-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776995228
AB This is a rejoinder to the criticisms of Grant Macaskill and Barry Matlock of The Deliverance of God. Because they largely misunderstand the complex argument of Deliverance it is redescribed and exemplified here in relation to Gal. 2.15-16, in the light of which the concerns of Macaskill and Matlock can be seen to be either misdirected or inadequate. Counter to their negative contentions it is argued that the essentially Arian problems within Paul’s description described by Deliverance remain real, widespread, and critical, but that no serious difficulties are visible as yet in the fundamentally Athanasian reading of Paul’s justification texts Deliverance offers. In alternative terms: if Paul is read consistently and rigorously ‘backward’, and never ‘forward’, a quagmire of interpretative difficulties can be negotiated, but not otherwise.
K1 Deliverance
K1 Voice
K1 Socratic
K1 rereading
K1 Romans
K1 Galatians
K1 ‘works of law’
K1 Judaism
K1 Jews
K1 forward (theory)
K1 JT
K1 justification (theory)
K1 backward
K1 forward
K1 Revelation
K1 Apocalyptic
K1 Foundationalism
K1 retrospectivism
K1 prospectivism
K1 Athanasius
K1 Arius
DO 10.1177/0142064X11424853