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Faith Alone—The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught … and Why It Still Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification renowned biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner looks at the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine of justification. He summarizes the history of the doctrine, looking at the early church and the writings of several of the Reformers. Then, he turns his attention to the Scriptures and walks readers through an examination of the key texts in the Old...

We can be grateful to Wright, therefore, for raising fresh questions about justification. I will argue, however, that his interpretation of justification, though it has some elements that are correct, also stands in need of correction. If I could sum up the problems at the outset, Wright tends to introduce false dichotomies, presenting an either—or when there is a both—and instead. To put it more sharply, even when he sees a both—and, he at times puts the emphasis in the wrong place, seeing the secondary
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