Jonathan E Soyars explores St Paul's understanding of the 'Law of Christ' and its consequences for Christian communities.

Roughly a generation after Jesus’s death, something cryptically called the ‘law of Christ’ appears in Paul’s letters. This intriguing concept was subsequently worked out in strikingly different ways by early Christian authors, often in ethical debates. The demonstrated flexibility of the ‘law of Christ’ suggests its enduring significance as a theological category for Christians even today, as we articulate why acting in relation to Jesus still matters in our own time and place.

Jonathan E Soyars is Tutor in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at Westminster College in the Cambridge Theological Federation and a priest in the Diocese of Ely. His current research analyses how ancient Christians creatively transformed and strategically redeployed scriptural traditions to new ethical ends, a project begun in his first book, The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy (Brill, 2019).

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