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John M.G. Barclay

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July 31, 1958

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New Testament, Pauline Studies

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John Barclay has been Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University since 2003. He has served as President of the British New Testament Society, TRS-UK,the umbrella organisation for Subject Associations and Departments of Theology and Religious Studies in the UK), and shortly, the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

His research is in the history and thought of early Christianity and early Judaism, with special interest in the ancient Jewish Diaspora and in the letters and theology of Paul. Using tools from the social sciences, he has explored the social formation of early Christianity, the ‘postcolonial’ identity of the Jewish historian Josephus, and the practice and theology of gift (‘grace’) in the work of Paul.

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	Paul and the Power of Grace 4.51 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul and the Gift 4.63 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul: A Very Brief History 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan 4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Obeying the Truth: Paul's Ethics in Galatians 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paul and the Subversive Power of Grace by John M.G. Barclay, Grove Books Ltd (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment by John M.G. Barclay (Editor), Simon J. Gathercole (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colossians and Philemon 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Testament in Comparison: Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions (The Library of New Testament Studies, 600) by John M.G. Barclay (Editor), Benjamin G. White (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What grace conveys is not a thing but a person; it establishes a relationship where the gift cannot be separated from the person who gave it. Grace is not an object passed from Christ to believers or a quality infused into them: it is, first and foremost, a transformative relationship with the Giver.”
― John M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Power of Grace

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“Believers live a life derived from elsewhere, in a kind of “ex-centric” existence (an existence whose center is outside of oneself) that draws on Jesus’s life from the dead.”
― John M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Power of Grace

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“We may conclude: grace is everywhere in Second Temple Judaism, but not everywhere the same. Describing Judaism as a “religion of grace” helpfully counters some still-common caricatures, but the label is of little analytical value. Sanders’s “covenantal nomism” is helpful in clarifying the sequence from election to obedience (the priority of grace), but it is conceptually incapable of grasping the differences we have noted, including the difference between congruous and incongruous grace.”
― John M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Power of Grace

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