‘Tom Wright"s long-awaited full-length study of St Paul will not in any way disappoint the high expectations that surround it. From the very first sentence, it holds the attention, arguing a strong, persuasive, coherent and fresh case, supported by immense scholarship and comprehensive theological intelligence. It is a worthy successor to his earlier magisterial studies of the themes of the Kingdom and the Resurrection: lively, passionate and deeply constructive, laying out very plainly the ways in which the faith of the New Testament is focused on God"s purpose to re-create, through the fact of Jesus crucified and risen, our entire understanding of authority and social identity." Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge