Stewart’s remarkable book on Paul, A Man in Christ, makes it clear that the heart of Paul and of his message lies in one area—in the continuous appropriation of the “real presence” of Christ himself within the experiential life of the believer. Stewart’s book, as helpful as it is, though, shares a basic omission with all of the major discussions of Paul in recent centuries. It is an omission that leaves Paul’s experiences of the Christ-life, so well described in its substance and effect by Stewart, largely inaccessible in practice to those who wish to follow Paul as he followed Christ, as 1
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