The aim of this book is to expound the theology of St. Paul, trying to discover what he actually intended to convey to his fellow-Christians when he composed his epistles.

Using Paul's letter to the Romans as the foundation for his monumental study of Paul's theology, James D. G. Dunn describes Paul's teaching on God, sin, humankind, Christology, salvation, the church, and the nature of the Christian life.

Its Not Rocket Science: The Theology of St. Paul the Apostle offers an understandable and usable introduction to the theology of Paul of Tarsus. By digesting and condensing the impressions and interpretations of more than one hundred other writers, Irving L. Brittle Jr. presents an approachable work that guides the reader through the main topics of St. Pauls theology of Jesus Christ and the wisdom of living Christians who follow the Lord. After setting the scene by summarizing Pauls life and context, Its Not Rocket Science investigates his treatment of God, humanity, the law, sin, the gospel, righteousness, and justification. Recognizing the key role that Martin Luthers reading of Paul has played in the life of the church over the past five hundred years, the work addresses the reformers interpretation of Paul. Then Its Not Rocket Science approaches questions of sanctification, salvation, and the sacraments. This interpretation of the theology of St. Paul provides a concise introduction and interpretation of the apostles theology of Jesus Christ and the nature of the Christian life.

The letters of the Apostle Paul are central witnesses to the Christian faith and to the earliest history of Christianity. And yet, when students, preachers, and others turn to Paul, they find many things “hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16) in these ancient writings. James Prothro’s new book aims to help readers see the Apostle’s faith and hope at work as he evangelized the nations. Steeped in up-to-date scholarship and a passion for the gospel Paul preached, Prothro draws readers into Paul’s life and letters in order to help them hear the Apostle’s voice. The book’s chapters offer introductions to Paul’s background, life, and legacy; an introduction to ancient letter writing; a guide to understanding Paul’s theology across the letters; a survey of the portrait of Paul in the Book of Acts; separate treatments of each letter’s background and purpose; treatments of key theological topics in each letter and a thorough outline of each letter showing its arguments and how they make sense. Prothro introduces complex matters with clarity, balance, and an inviting style. He not only offers answers but models how to ask questions, helping us reason through Paul’s letters as ancient documents and as Christian Scripture. This book will prove a valuable introduction for those who study, teach, and preach these biblical books.

This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by him as his "spiritual testament.” Taubes engages with classic Paul commentators, including Karl Barth, but also situates the Pauline text in the context of Freud, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, and Rosenzweig. In his distinctive argument for the apocalyptic-revolutionary potential of Romans, Taubes also takes issue with the "political theology” advanced by the conservative Catholic jurist Carl Schmitt. Taubes’s reading has been crucial for a number of interpretations of political theology and of Paul--including those of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben--and it belongs to a wave of fresh considerations of Paul’s legacy (Boyarin, Lyotard, Badiou, Zîzêk). Finally, Taubes’s far-ranging lectures provide important insights into the singular experiences and views of this unconventional Jewish intellectual living in post-Holocaust Germany.

"Saint Paul's thought can be approached from many sides, but we shall always find it complex, whichever one we take. In this study it is rather the texture of Paul's thought that will be our chief concern. We can take it for granted that his thought is of the living kind; our aim then will be to uncover, as it were, the nerves and fibres of its various layers." (Introduction).

Introduction to Paul -- The conversion and call of Paul -- Paul's gospel and the two ages -- Paul's gospel-sin (I) -- Paul's gospel-sin (II) -- Paul's gospel-justification (I) -- Paul's gospel-justification (II) -- Paul's gospel-sanctification (I) -- Paul's gospel-sanctification (II) -- Paul's gospel-sanctification (III) -- Paul and the church -- Paul and the future