Will Deming

This is a stunning account of Paul's moral methodology in relation to vexed questions, particularly to do with sex. Will Deming, always scrupulously attentive to the original texts and contexts, makes a careful and thorough case that St Paul's approach to these kinds of controversies was generous, pragmatic, and adaptable, and implicitly allows us to think that if Paul were with us today he would be far from the misogynistic and homophobic bigot who is sometimes presented to us.