Quote by Michael J. Gorman

“Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and…

— Michael J. Gorman

“Here the crucified Christ was seen less as the sacrifice which God creates to reconcile the world to himself, and more as the exemplary…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul’s life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul…

— John Piper

“A dead man cannot forgive sins. The gospel, as the present forgiveness of sins, assumes the new, divine, eschatological life of the crucified Christ,…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The union between Paul’s sufferings and Christ’s sufferings results in the manifestation of Christ’s life in the person of Paul.”

— Taylor R. Marshall

“For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need…

— William Barclay

“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if you take…

— N.T. Wright

“Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.”

— Richard Rohr

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Paul said that it is only as we are overwhelmed at the glory of Christ's sacrifice for us that we are transformed into glory…

— J.D. Greear

“understanding of Christ, which Paul terms the wisdom of God hidden in a mystery, which “the natural man receiveth not,” the doctrine of the…

— The Church Fathers

“while the gospel offended each culture in somewhat different ways, it also drew people to see Christ and his work in different ways. Greeks…

— Timothy Keller