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Believing And Becoming Are Both Essential
- Paul wants believers to embody the gospel, not merely mentally assent to it.
- Becoming the gospel means communities participate in God's saving justice revealed in Christ.
Translate 'Righteousness' As God's Justice
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 frames salvation as participation: we might become the righteousness/justice of God.
- Translating dikaiosyne as 'justice' highlights God's saving activity enacted in history and shared with believers.
An Accidental Trilogy Led To This Book
- Gorman describes his three Paul monographs as an 'accidental trilogy' connecting cruciformity to theoformity and mission.
- He added a rushed chapter on the church to his first book, which later pushed him to develop the theme of churches embodying the gospel.