A primer on the justification debate +


Christianity Today have published online a table from their June 2009 edition by Trevin Wax that summarises the debate over the new perspective on Paul and justification. Following their recent books interacting with each other’s ideas, John Piper and Tom Wright represent the two sides of the discussion. Here are the books in question …

John Piper, The Future of Justification purchase from Amazon UK purchase from Amazon US

Tom Wright, Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision purchase from Amazon UK purchase from Amazon US

See also Tom Wright, What Saint Paul Really Said, especially chapter 7 purchase from Amazon UK purchase from Amazon US

For my own take on the topic see my article ‘Justification, Ecclesiology and the New Perspective’ which was published in Themelios and which is available online here.

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