Book Notices
1997-11-01
purpose through the gospel was made dependent upon man's re-' sponse to it. In 5: 1 the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heav- ens" was made to refer to the res- urrection body, something totally impossible in the light of Paul's clear emphasis on the fact that we have this house not made with hands at the moment that our earthly house is dissolved and we die. In 5: 19, in his treatment of reconciliation, the author admits that reconciliation includes the for- giveness of sin; but he...