Eastern Christianity Reader

faithfulness of Jesus which exceeds the faithfulness of Abraham, the ending of the exile through God’s self-disclosure through Jesus, and human interpretations of God’s judgment. The book minimally considers the occurrences of redactions to Paul’s letters by authors after the destruction of Jerusalem which occurred after Paul’s lifetime. Van Driel’s larger argument entails the idea that the atonement, justification, and reconciliation collectively culminate in the broader eschatological theme of a coming of the reign of God soon. Rethinking Paul culminates with the author’s description of westernized Christianity as promoting multiple layers of oppression and inhumanity. Towards the end of the book the author presents the idea of a Pauline perspective appropriated for the modern world such that individual and collective identity transcends ethnicity by referencing Abrahams family consisting of members through birthright and adoption. Furthermore, the author raises the issue of how the pandemic exposes the dismantling of society’s institutions which undermines ‘old securities’ with trending decadence. As the title suggests, the book’s intended audience includes Protestant theologians of various levels of training and laity with a passion to increase one’s ability to observe Pauline texts.