A new journal Early Christianity has made its first edition available free to download.
It includes a review of Douglas Campbell's Deliverance of God by Francis Watson, as well as an article by John Barclay on Romans 9-11 and a review of Robert Jewett's commentary on Romans by Mark Reasoner, amongst other articles.
Watson concludes his review with the following:
This is a highly unusual book which is likely to prove influential even
among those who remain unpersuaded by some, most, or all of its argu-
ments. For those who believe that Paul himself was responsible for the
contents of Romans 1 – 4, in spite of problems of coherence, Campbell’s
attribution of much of this material to a hypothetical opponent may
seem astonishingly arbitrary, the product of a determination to capture
the citadel of Justification theory by any available means and whatever
the cost. As we have seen, the theory itself operates with sovereign disre-
gard for the actual views of other Pauline interpreters, who find themselves
transplanted onto a terrain whose contours and features have been deter-
mined by Campbell himself. This may be at least as disconcerting for those
he enlists as his allies as for those he regards as his opponents (whom, it
should be said, he treats with courtesy throughout). Fighting to defend or
overthrow the mighty fortress of Justification theory, in the knowledge
that the truth of the gospel stands or falls with the outcome, is not a rhet-
orical posture that comes naturally to most of Paul’s “conventional”, un-
charismatic interpreters. It remains to be seen whether others will heed
Campbell’s clarion call to radical, high risk interpretative ventures
under his leadership.
Thanks for drawing my attention to that, Andy. Watson's review of Campbell's latest was interesting in tone, eh?
Posted by: Terry | May 20, 2010 at 08:16 AM