Theodicy and Predestination in Pauline Soteriology (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchengen Zum Neuen Testament: 2. Reihe)

Timo Eskola presents a new way of understanding Pauls soteriology as a theology of predestination: God has cosigned all people to sin and condemnation. There is no basic dualism between the good and the bad. Since everybody needs salvation the atonement of Christ is proof of Gods ultimate faithfulness. Timo Eskola is Privatdozent of New Testament in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki and a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Theodicy and Predestination in Pauline Soteriology (1998) and Messiah and the Throne (2001).