Conclusions
The failure of predecessors (p931); the ills of foundationalism and contractualism; re-statement of methodology (p932-33). Not an attack on the Gospel but on a false reading, so it is evangelical, deeply Protestant if not Lutheran: "God justifies the ungodly since Paul means by this that God delivers the wicked from their enslavement to sin, when they cannot deliver themselves, and thereby demonstrates his unconditional grace and love." "Paul's account of sanctification is the Gospel. His description of deliverance and cleansing 'in Christ', through the work of the Spirit, at the behest of the Father, the entire process being symbolized by baptism, is the good news. It requires no supplementation by other systems". Catholicism is deeply implicit in the problem and the solution (p934): "... the Gospel of sanctification, ethical efficacy and ecclesiastical community is also richly resourced by elements within Catholicism ... denominational distinctions are best abandoned"; "... an important step in the recovery of the authentic and orthodox Pauline gospel" (p935). The "real Paul awaits us" (p936)