LITERATURE

Literature

Literature

The dense and spectacular argument of Galatians excites and baffles by turns. Sometimes perceived as the flamboyant junior sister of more resolved and reflective note to Rome, this epistle has provoked endless argument at all grades, from minutia of exegesis to flights of methodical theology. Nobody reading it can be in any question that it all mattered very much really to Paul. But what it was that mattered, and why, and why it should issue to any person two thousand years subsequent these are far harder inquiries to answer. Nor can this section do more than restate questions and sign at ...