This course explores the contested space between the good work of salvation begun and its completion “until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6), particularly as described in the letters of St. Paul. We will consider whether this space is best described under the term of convenience, “sanctification,” while interrogating that and other Pauline metaphors for their depiction of the “present tense” of salvation. This is then a course in Pauline anthropology, soteriology, and “ethics,” attending, among other things, to the disputed definitions of “justification” and “salvation,” participation in Christ, the meaning and work of “grace,” the place of “works” in salvation, the function of “law,” and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in Christian transformation.