Theologian’s Paul

Not many theologians make me laugh out loud. Kevin Vanhoozer is one who does, regularly.

This from his much-discussed justification lecture at Wheaton, just published in Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright : Vanhoozer enumerates the various Paul’s on current offer. The first is the “theologian’s Paul”:

“We’re all acquainted with the Reformation theologian’s Paul. He looks like Luther, only shorter.”

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