The Theology of Paul: Grace, Faith, and the Gospel He Died For
The theology of Paul explained: grace, justification by faith, union with Christ, and the gospel he suffered shipwreck, prison, and execution to proclaim — and why it still changes everything today. He had every reason to be confident in his own righteousness. Paul — born Saul of Tarsus, a Roman citizen, a Hebrew of Hebrews, trained at the feet of Gamaliel, one of the most respected rabbis of the first century, a Pharisee of the strictest order — was by his own account blameless under the law (Philippians 3:6). He knew the Torah. He kept it. He was so zealous for Israel's God that he hunted down followers of Jesus and had them killed. And then, on the road to Damascus, he met Jesus. And everything he thought he knew about righteousness, about God, about how a human being stands before their Creator — it all collapsed and was rebuilt from the ground up around a single, staggering reality: grace. The theology Paul spent the rest of his life articulating — in letters to churches in Ro...
