"The unintelligent and inexperienced books about Paul are dreadful- all done by just men who need no repentance and therefore have no glimmerings of what was vital to the Apostle'. So James Denney once wrote to Alexander Whyte.

Concurring with that sentiment, Sir Marcus Loane, Archbishop of Sydney, here gives twenty-four chapters on what he is sure lies at the centre of the thought of the Apostle to the Gentiles. His concern is not to offer his own opinions but to expound key verses or passages from six Pauline Letters (1 and 2 Thessalonians, Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philemon) 'with reverence and with clarity'. 'There can be no greater fascination', he writes, 'than to see through the text into Paul's mind, to trace his thought process, and to perceive what led him to formulate arguments or to express himself in the way that he did."

Marcus Loane is one of the few contemporary writers and evangelical leaders who, in the tradition of J. C. Ryle, car make the New Testament arresting and relevant for all readers at the present hour.