%0 Journal Article
%T Paul and the God of the Gift
%A Wesley Hill
%J Pro Ecclesia
%@ 2631-8334
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1063851219842397
%X John Barclay¡¯s book Paul and the Gift complicates a simple opposition between categories of ¡°history¡± and ¡°being¡± when it comes to sketching a Pauline doctrine of God. On the one hand, Barclay sees Paul¡¯s understanding of the divine identity as basically narratival and ¡°actualist¡±: God defines his character in and through the Christ-event. But by tracing the Pauline and post-Pauline placement of Jesus in a pre-existent eternity and as the agent of creation, Barclay also shows that the patristic and later theological tradition¡¯s deployment of the language of divine essence has real roots in the Pauline tradition as well
%K God
%K grace
%K history
%K event
%K being
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1063851219842397