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Are Christians merely forgiven, or do they possess the righteousness of Christ? Recently the time-honored understanding of the doctrine of justification has come under attack. Many question how—or if—we receive the full righteousness of Christ. Martin Luther said that if we understand justification “we are in the clearest light; if we do not know it, we dwell in the densest darkness.” And now, in...

But the gulf between us on this issue is significant. Gundry’s revision of the historic Protestant understanding of justification9 goes further than his rejection of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. For example, while he does affirm “justification as a forensic declaration of believing sinners to be righteous,” he does not see justification as involving any positive imputation to the believer of divine righteousness—whether God’s or Christ’s. The language of imputation (λογίζομαί, logizomai)
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