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By Faith, Not by Sight: Paul and the Order of Salvation (2nd Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Proponents of the “New Perspective” on Paul generally reject or minimize the concept of an ordo salutis (“order of salvation”) in his writings. Building on the biblical-theological groundwork of the Reformed tradition, Richard B. Gaffin Jr. explores Paul’s understanding of how individuals receive salvation. Even Peter acknowledged that Paul wrote some things that are hard to understand, yet the...

First, in terms of the current debates, sparked as they are largely by certain New Perspective conclusions, I remain unpersuaded that the Reformation and the Reformation tradition have gotten it wrong and that, for Paul, justification is at least primarily, if not entirely, about ecclesiology rather than soteriology—about whom you may eat with and are to have fellowship as a Christian, rather than how you become a Christian. On this view—primarily for some of its proponents, exclusively for others
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