Galatians
Galatians is Paul at white heat. Skipping his customary thanksgiving, he moves straight to astonishment: the churches of Galatia are deserting the gospel for a different one, pressed by teachers who insisted Gentile converts must be circumcised and keep the law. Paul stakes his own story on the answer, recounting his call and his confrontation with Peter at Antioch. Justification comes by faith in Christ, not works of the law; believers are Abraham's children by promise, sons and heirs who cry Abba. The letter ends where it lives throughout, in freedom, the Spirit's fruit, and boasting only in the cross.
The apostle Paul, writing with unusual urgency in his own hand
AD 48–55
Gentile churches of Galatia in central Asia Minor
To defend justification by faith apart from works of the law and call the Galatians back to gospel freedom.